Summary
Rachana 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 University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi, Konkani