Security Engineer: Cloud, DevSecOps and AI Security
Cybersecurity Engineer
Available for hire
Years of
experience
7+ years
Experience
level
Staff
Available
for
Full-time
Security engineer who builds security programs from zero at startups. About 7 years across cloud security, DevSecOps, compliance and AI security.
- Sole owner of security, IT and compliance at Kojo (Series B SaaS). Took SOC 2 Type II from scratch to certified within a year, with no team.
- Cleared an eight-year, 1,950-item vulnerability backlog in two weeks, then built an AI-assisted patch pipeline that closes critical findings inside 24 hours.
- Designed guardrails for AI coding agents and internal AI tools: scoped identities, an MCP gateway with scoped STS roles, read-only data access and standing detection.
- FLO EV Charging: secured AWS and Azure for 150,000+ connected chargers, built zero trust across both clouds, and replaced a paid secrets manager with self-hosted Vault, saving $85K a month.
- Paisabazaar (fintech): PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 audit cycles with EY.
Looking for a full-time Staff or Lead security role at a startup, owning cloud, AI and product security end to end. Canadian citizen, TN eligible for US roles. Open to remote, hybrid or relocating to the US.
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Employment History
Staff Security Specialist at
Kojo
Current
2025
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Now
Sole owner of security, IT and compliance at a Series B SaaS company. Built the program from zero: SOC 2 Type II certified within a year, vulnerability management, incident response, vendor risk, IAM and MDM. Cleared a 1,950-item vulnerability backlog in two weeks and built an AI-assisted patch pipeline closing critical findings inside 24 hours. Designed guardrails for AI coding agents and internal AI tools.
Network Security Specialist (Contract) at
Lyft
2025
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2025
Terraform-based network integration with an acquired organization in London.
Senior DevSecOps Specialist at
FLO EV Charging
2024
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2025
Owned AWS and Azure infrastructure security for 150,000+ connected chargers. Designed zero trust across both clouds, drove SOC 2 controls that enabled 5 enterprise wins, and replaced a paid secrets manager with self-hosted Vault, saving $85K a month.
DevSecOps Engineer at
FLO EV Charging
2022
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2024
Integrated SonarCloud and Trivy into CI/CD, ran AKS and EKS with GitOps (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions), and rebuilt incident management and on-call.
DevSecOps Engineer at
Paisabazaar
2019
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2022
First and only DevSecOps engineer at a fintech. Secured PCI-compliant infrastructure and consumer financial data, and ran PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 audit cycles with EY.
Education
Master of IT (Security and Networking) at
Queensland University of Technology
2017
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2019
B.Tech, Electronics and Communication at
Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology
2013
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2017