Suman Adhikari
Security Technical Program Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSuman Adhikari is a Security Technical Program Manager with eight years of hands-on cybersecurity experience and an MS in Computer Science from Mississippi State University. He has led cross-functional teams to execute penetration tests, vulnerability management, and incident response programs using tools like CyberArk, FortiSIEM, RAPID7 Nexpose, and Metasploit Pro, and has operational experience across Windows and Linux server environments. At NSPARC he built NIST-aligned policies, optimized SIEM workflows, and improved least-privilege controls while supervising student analysts and integrating Python and LLMs to automate threat detection and cyber range scenarios. Now at Microsoft, he brings both tactical red-team testing skills and program-level governance to scale security operations. Notably, he pairs deep technical debugging and server-side development experience with grant writing and AI-driven training initiatives—demonstrating a rare blend of research, automation, and practitioner-focused security leadership.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, 3.8, Masters, Computer Science, 3.8 at Mississippi State University
English, NepaliProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mrsuman2002/A_modular_Plugin-CodeChat
Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 1 year 4 months
mrsuman2002/Vagrant
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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