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Elasticsearch & Security Engineer at REWTERZ, cutting storage costs by 22% with Elastic ILM and snapshot policies.

Pakistan
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At REWTERZ, I administer geographically distributed Elastic Stack clusters for a 24/7 SOC. I ingested more than 10 log source types through ECS-compliant Logstash pipelines and configured lifecycle and snapshot policies that helped cut storage costs by 22%.

I created KQL and Query DSL detection rules for lateral movement, exfiltration, and anomalous authentication. Kibana Lens and TSVB dashboards replaced manual analyst reporting and reduced MTTR by 38%, while Python and the Elasticsearch REST API helped automate administration.

At Systems Limited, I was part of a three-person team deploying and managing Elasticsearch clusters for an environment with more than 2,000 servers and 7,000 endpoints. I also created Kibana dashboards that helped reduce SOC incident response times by 45%; earlier, as a Security Engineer Intern at NASTP, I built an AI-powered SOAR platform that generated incident response playbooks from real-time detection alerts.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Security Engineer Intern

National Aerospace Science & Technology Park

Jul 2023 - Sep 2023 (2 months)

Built an AI-powered SOAR platform generating automated incident response playbooks from real-time detection alerts using Elasticsearch, Wazuh, Shuffle, TheHive, and LLM.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

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Elastic

Elastic Certified Engineer (ECE), Elasticsearch

Earned the Elastic Certified Engineer (ECE) certification from Elastic in 2026.

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CompTIA

CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701), Security

Earned the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) certification from CompTIA in 2025.

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Air University

Bachelor of Science, Cyber Security

2020 - 2024

Activities and societies: Relevant Coursework: Network Security, Distributed Systems, Penetration Testing, Digital Forensics, Incident Response

Bachelor of Science in Cyber Security from Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan, from 2020 to 2024.

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Fortinet

NSE 1 & NSE 2 — Network Security Associate, Network Security

Earned the NSE 1 & NSE 2 Network Security Associate certifications from Fortinet in 2024.

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