Dev Dua
Security Engineer at Thinkst Applied Research
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolDev Dua is a Security Engineer with 10 years' experience bridging defense engineering, detection engineering, and incident response with hands-on software development and IT operations. Based in Pune, he has driven infrastructure and detection projects at companies like N26 and Thinkst, including mapping SIEM coverage to MITRE ATT&CK and rolling out Auditbeat rules. He combines advanced academic credentials—a 4.0 M.Eng. in Cybersecurity from University of Maryland—and top-tier engineering pedigree from BITS Pilani Dubai with practical cloud and container security work across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved the HELK hunting stack’s update automation to make deployments more reliable and easier to maintain. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic security automation and for turning complex detection requirements into operational controls.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Cybersecurity, Cumulative GPA: 4.0/4.0, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Cybersecurity, Cumulative GPA: 4.0/4.0 at University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of EngineeringBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Hons., Computer Science, Cumulative GPA: 9.85 / 10.0, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Hons., Computer Science, Cumulative GPA: 9.85 / 10.0 at Birla Institute Of Technology and Science, Pilani Dubai
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Github Skills (23)
git10
github-ci10
docker10
scripting10
bash10
dockers10
script10
sh10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
devops9
automation-testing9
automation9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Cyb3rWard0g/HELK
May 2018 - Apr 2020
The Hunting ELK
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:34 commits, 11 PRs, 49 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Dev primarily contributed to the project by implementing and improving the HELK update script. They added features such as the ability to update from GitHub, including checks to see if an update is available, and made changes to accommodate different ELK subscription models, as well as added code to ensure adequate disk space for Docker. The user's work focused on automating and streamlining the HELK update process, improving the stability and reliability of the deployment. Their modifications ensured users could easily keep their HELK instances up-to-date with the latest features and fixes.
dockerhubelkelasticjupyter-notebookdocker
devdua/HELK
May 2018 - Jul 2020
The Hunting ELK
Contributions:33 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 2 months
elkhuntingelasticsearch
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