Summary
Ashish Bansal is a Senior Principal Security Engineer with 15+ years across security operations, automation and cloud security, currently heading Cyber Defense for an Indonesian fintech. He has led SOC, SIEM and SOAR functions at scale and built detection and threat-hunting capabilities for enterprises like Traveloka and Ensign InfoSecurity. An active open-source maintainer and creator—author of Slack Guardian, Brahma Deploy and an open-source incident management tool—he contributes to projects such as Sysmon, eBPF tooling, Steampipe and Uptime Kuma. His background blends hands-on security engineering, ISO27001 and threat modelling with leadership in advisory and program roles, and he pairs that with formal training in AI and computer science. Notably, his open-source Slack Guardian was featured on LibHunt, reflecting a practical focus on tooling that helps ops teams move faster.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna
University of Delhi
Master of Business Administration - MBA MIS & IT, Master of Business Administration - MBA MIS & IT at Ajay Kumar Garg Institute of Management, Ghaziabad,
Master of Computer Applications - MCA Computer Software Engineering, Master of Computer Applications - MCA Computer Software Engineering at Swami Vivekanand Subharti University (SVSU), Meerut
English, Hindi, Spanish