Rachana Kamat
Senior Security Engineer II at Samsara
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachana Kamat is a Senior Security Engineer with 8 years of experience building and operating enterprise security programs across SaaS, cloud, and hybrid environments. She has led Zero Trust and BeyondCorp-style initiatives at Wayfair and Samsara, implementing identity-aware access, DLP, and contextual access controls while driving infrastructure changes like VLAN deprecation and DNS profiling. A Northeastern MS in Cybersecurity candidate and former cybersecurity co-op at KKR, she couples academic research—authoring papers on IoT security and risk assessment—with hands-on automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell) that reduced false positives and streamlined investigations. Her background includes cloud security assessment work at Stroz Friedberg and practical detections/response improvements using Splunk and endpoint tooling. Known for curiosity-driven creativity, she also brings strong cross-functional communication from teaching and stakeholder-facing roles. Colleagues rely on her as a pragmatic team player who translates security strategy into operational controls and measurable risk reduction.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master of Science in Cyber Security, Master's degree, Master of Science in Cyber Security at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi, Konkani
Github Skills (7)
alerts3
logic3
terraform2
aws2
azure2
on-demand2
compliance2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wayfair-incubator/terraform-azure-policy-alerts
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
This repository will help deploy an alerts workflow via Terraform, which performs an on-demand scan for policy compliance using logic app in Azure
Contributions:39 commits, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 month
policyscanon-demandalertsdemand
yjin8/gender-inequality
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 year
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