Abhishek Nayak
Associate (Engineering) - Detection And Response
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAbhishek Nayak is a security-focused software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable detection and response capabilities at Goldman Sachs, backed by hands-on DevOps and automation work from Dell. He combines an MS in Computer Science (Intelligent Systems) with practical expertise in threat detection across endpoints, identity, and cloud, applying data-driven and ML-informed approaches to improve incident response and security coverage. At Goldman Sachs he has progressed from intern to associate owning end-to-end detection analytics projects, and his prior work migrating CI/CD pipelines and automating enterprise tools demonstrates a strong systems-thinking foundation. Based in Dallas, he’s interested in roles that bridge cloud security, detection engineering, and applied AI—bringing both production-grade engineering rigor and a knack for translating research-level AI concepts into operational security improvements.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology at International Institute of Information Technology, Bhubaneswar10th board, 10th board at DAV public school, Thane, Maharashtra, IndiaHigher Secondary Science, Higher Secondary Science at PACE junior science college, Mumbai, India
German, English, Hindi, Odia
Github Skills (28)
linux10
javascript9
open-source9
digitalocean7
python7
machine-learning6
nixos6
github6
nix6
java5
git5
llm4
nixpkgs4
ai4
developer-tools4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Quarantinex/MenuCardReader
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:13 PRs, 16 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
Quarantinex/ML_A-Z
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:41 commits, 4 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 months
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