Risal Nasar
Cyber Threat Detection Engineering And Automation
Singapore
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Top SchoolRisal Nasar is a cybersecurity engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building threat detection, automation, and data-driven security capabilities across fintech and enterprise environments. Currently leading Cyber Threat Detection Engineering and Automation at PayPal, he has previously driven security automation and analytics programs at Prudential Asia, Grab, and Aviva. He combines strong engineering discipline with a research-rooted EE degree from Nanyang Technological University (Dean’s List, NTU President Research Scholar) to bridge rigorous analytics and practical operational security. Known for translating complex telemetry into actionable detections and scalable automation, he focuses on measurable reduction of risk and investigator mean time to respond. Comfortable in cloud-native environments, he brings experience from both product and corporate info-sec domains, balancing governance with rapid engineering delivery. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, data-first approaches that tame noisy signals into high-fidelity detections.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, CGPA: 4.8 on 5.0. Dean's List -2008, 2009, 2010. NTUPresident Research Scholar., Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, CGPA: 4.8 on 5.0. Dean's List -2008, 2009, 2010. NTUPresident Research Scholar. at Nanyang Technological University
Tamil, Arabic, Hindi, English, Malayalam
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Github Skills (2)
vba9
excel9
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Github contributions (5)
RisalNasar/Excel-Macro-VBA-Library
Oct 2015 - Dec 2021
This repository is created to build a library of reusable VBA / Macro modules and functions for Microsoft Excel.
Contributions:19 commits, 6 PRs, 24 pushes in 6 years 2 months
excelvba
RisalNasar/IT-Risk-Assessment-Tools
Nov 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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