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CYBERSECURITY ANALYST DARKTRACE · NYC · 2026

RISH PEDNEKAR

Cybersecurity Analyst · Cloud Security · 2026

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About

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I'm Rish Pednekar — a Cybersecurity Analyst at Darktrace protecting enterprise systems across 100+ client environments. With 4+ years of experience spanning SOC operations, threat hunting, incident response, and cloud security, I bridge the gap between defensive cybersecurity and emerging AI technologies.

Previously at Brother International Corporation and Rutgers IT, I've safeguarded 8,000+ devices, resolved 800+ incidents, and built security awareness programs for senior executives. I founded Rutgers' first cloud computing organization, growing it to 200+ members with 50+ hands-on workshops.

I hold CompTIA Security+, Azure Fundamentals, and Darktrace Cyber Analyst certifications, and am currently pursuing AZ-500 and Georgia Tech's OMS Cybersecurity program.

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Experience

01 JUL 2025 — PRESENT

Cybersecurity Analyst

Darktrace · Manhattan, NYC

  • Performed SOC analysis and incident response for 100+ clients using the Darktrace product stack
  • Conducted threat hunting and analysis to identify and mitigate security risks from malicious threat actors
  • Provided strategic guidance for 300+ alerts via threat intelligence, operational efficiency, and email reports
SOCIRThreat Hunting
02 SEP 2024 — JUN 2025

Cybersecurity Analyst

Brother International · Bridgewater, NJ

  • Safeguarded 8,000+ devices using Taegis SIEM/EDR and CrowdStrike Falcon for NIST-compliant ML threat detection
  • Implemented phishing training across USA, Latin America, and Canada via KnowBe4
  • Engineered cybersecurity metrics for company National Sales conference, presenting to 50+ senior executives
  • Created SOP process flow for Delinea privileged access management
TaegisCrowdStrikeKnowBe4Delinea
03 JUN 2024 — AUG 2024

Cybersecurity Intern

Brother International · Bridgewater, NJ

  • Designed and executed an OSINT-based Vishing Threat Hunt Campaign training 30+ senior executives
  • Leveraged Qualys and Veracode for code vulnerability analysis through dynamic and static scanning
  • Led Intune MDM Conditional Access Proof of Concept for company-wide implementation
  • Achieved 40% improvement in web app security and 50% increased efficiency
OSINTQualysVeracodeIntune
04 MAY 2023 — MAY 2025

IT Supervisor

Rutgers OIT · New Brunswick, NJ

  • Managed 50+ employees for shift scheduling and troubleshooting via Slack and Five9
  • Analyzed Juniper Mist network traffic for 9,800+ Access Points
  • Resolved 800+ incidents for Microsoft 365, Windows, macOS, and Cisco DUO
  • Updated ServiceNow policy procedures and Knowledge Articles
Juniper MistM365ServiceNow
05 SEP 2022 — DEC 2024

President & Founder

Rutgers Org of Cloud Computing · New Brunswick, NJ

  • Grew club to 200+ members, managing $2,000 budget through documented project management SOPs
  • Delivered 50+ hands-on workshops on Azure, Python, Docker, and Linux with 99% positive feedback
  • Drove 300+ active member engagement through social media and campus Cloud-a-Thons
AzureDockerPythonLinux
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Projects

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OSINT Sentinel
ThreatScope

Full-stack multi-agent threat intelligence aggregation platform using CrewAI, FastAPI, React, Redis, and pluggable LLM backends (Ollama, Groq, Anthropic). Generates structured OSINT threat reports from AbuseIPDB, IPInfo, Shodan, VirusTotal, and AlienVault OTX.

CrewAIFastAPIReactRedisPython
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P/02

Security Onion
AI Lab

Terraform-deployed Azure lab provisioning three VMs (Security Onion, attacker, victim) demonstrating AI-powered network security monitoring — AI Summaries, Guided Analysis, Playbooks, and Onion AI Assistant with real attack traffic generation. Presented at DEFCON908.

TerraformAzureSecurity OnionIDS/IPS
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P/03

AI Pokémon
Card Explorer

Secure data processing pipeline analyzing 17,000+ JSON records with real-time API integration and local ML agent for natural language query processing across 120+ card sets.

PythonStreamlitOllamaPokéTCG API
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P/04

GoPhish
Infrastructure

Deployed automated SMTP infrastructure within Azure via cloned VMs for test phishing campaigns. Consolidated BASH scripts to configure MailHog onto Ubuntu VMs.

BASHAzureMailHog
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Skills

[01] Security Tools

Darktrace Taegis EDR CrowdStrike KnowBe4 Veracode Qualys MS Defender Wireshark Security Onion

[02] Cloud Platforms

Microsoft Azure AWS Active Directory Entra ID SharePoint Power BI ServiceNow

[03] Programming

Python PowerShell SQL Java JavaScript BASH R

[04] Certifications

CompTIA Security+ Azure AZ-900 Darktrace Cyber Analyst Qualys VMDR
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Contact

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Ready to discuss cybersecurity, cloud technologies, or potential collaboration? I'm always open to connecting with fellow professionals.

email.sh $ send --to rishped.31@gmail.com linkedin.sh $ open --profile /in/rish-pednekar github.sh $ git clone github.com/rishp66