Summary
Sumanth Thyagarajan is a Senior Security Engineer with nine years of experience and a focused Masters in Cybersecurity from the University of Maryland, blending hands-on offensive security with secure software lifecycle improvements. He has practical expertise in vulnerability assessment, secure code auditing, IAM, and CI/CD security across AWS and Azure, and is proficient in languages from Python and Java to x86 assembly. His career spans roles at TCS, PwC, and CVS Health, and includes contributions to national vulnerability disclosure programs and bug bounty platforms—evidence of real-world impact beyond standard audits. He holds eJPT and CEH certifications, a Splunk fundamentals credential, and has been recognized internally at TCS for proposing an SDLC security enhancement. Notably, he pairs traditional pentesting tool skills with experience in identity platforms (Okta, SailPoint) and enterprise code analyzers (SonarQube, Fortify), making him effective at both finding vulnerabilities and driving secure development practices.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Cybersecurity, Master of Engineering - MEng Cybersecurity at University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of Engineering
Bachelor’s Degree computer science and engineering, Bachelor’s Degree computer science and engineering at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy
English, Tamil