Pouyan Khabazi
Cloud Security Specialist at Talking Security Podcast
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPouyan Khabazi is a Microsoft Cloud Security Specialist and Security MVP with two decades of deep Microsoft platform experience, now leading CoFend to make security transparent, practical, and automation-driven. He blends hands-on engineering—particularly in Azure Sentinel automation and PowerShell-based deployment tooling—with strategic cybersecurity leadership across identity, endpoint, and cloud defenses. As a serial entrepreneur and former co-founder of EightFence and NextFence, he builds integrated solutions that bridge security operations, IT and automation to reduce risk without creating bottlenecks. Pouyan also hosts the Talking Security Podcast, sharing pragmatic Zero Trust and cloud security insights with the community. Based in Rotterdam, he uniquely pairs developer-level automation skills (notably contributions to Azure Sentinel deployment scripts) with a consultant’s knack for translating technical controls into business-aligned security outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree System and network engineering, Bachelor’s Degree System and network engineering at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesBachelor’s Degree Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at NCOI Opleidingen
English, Dutch, Persian
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Github Skills (13)
azure-resource-manager10
resource-manager10
json10
powershell10
arm10
cloud-infrastructure10
yaml10
azure-sentinel9
generated-code9
cybersecurity9
automations8
automation8
deployment-automation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/Azure-Sentinel
Sep 2019 - Mar 2022
Cloud-native SIEM for intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Pouyan primarily contributed to the development of PowerShell scripts related to the deployment and conversion of Microsoft Sentinel alert rules. Their work involved creating functions to convert YAML rule definitions to JSON format, and subsequently, to deploy the rules using Azure Resource Manager. Additionally, they wrote a function to combine multiple JSON rule files into a single deployment object, streamlining the deployment process. This indicates a focus on automating infrastructure deployment and configuration related to the Azure Sentinel platform.
intelligentsecurity-analyticsanalyticssecuritykql
pkhabazi/IntuneWAC
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:104 commits in 2 months
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