Summary
Koushik Kotamraju is a Senior Technical Security Engineer with 8 years of experience blending software engineering rigor and cybersecurity expertise to harden cloud and enterprise systems. With a Master’s in Software Engineering from Arizona State University and a progression from cloud infrastructure intern to security architect and now senior engineer at Yahoo, he excels at translating complex technical risks into strategic, actionable solutions. He brings hands-on experience across cloud security, threat modeling, and incident reduction, informed by time at CYR3CON where he bridged research-driven intelligence with engineering controls. Based in Arizona, he is passionate about emerging security standards and continuous learning, often applying pragmatic, value-driven approaches rather than one-size-fits-all fixes. Notably, his background spans both large-scale enterprise environments and startup research teams, giving him a rare combination of operational discipline and exploratory security thinking.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Arizona State University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Telugu, Marathi, Hindi