Summary
Rohan Kumar is a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst with 11 years of experience, currently leading threat-hunting and detection efforts at Schonfeld after a multi-year tenure building Paychex’s Fusion Center capabilities. He combines deep hands-on skills in structured threat hunting, digital forensics, malware analysis, SIEM/EDR tuning, and SOAR automation (Splunk Phantom), and has translated manual IR processes into Python- and PowerShell-driven playbooks to accelerate response. Rohan has led purple-team engagements and driven detection engineering that moves prototypes into production, while cataloging threat histories to anticipate attacker behavior. His background spans enterprise security operations and earlier software engineering work on cross-platform mobile apps, giving him a pragmatic developer’s perspective on defensive tooling. Based in Rochester, NY, he pairs a Master’s in Computing Security from RIT with a track record of operationalizing security automation and mentoring teams to improve measurable hunt program performance.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computing Security, Master's degree, Computing Security at Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Manipal Institute of Technology
High School, High School at FIITJEE Jr. College
Middle School, Middle School at Bhavans Sri Ramakrishna Vidyalaya
English, Hindi, Tamil