Vijay Tilak
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at Datacom
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolVijay Tilak is a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer based in Auckland with over 18 years in IT and a decade focused on cybersecurity, identity and access management, and cloud security. He has deep hands-on experience automating IAM workflows (notably with SailPoint IdentityNow), deploying and tuning Microsoft Sentinel and Defender for SOC operations, and hardening AWS environments. Vijay combines technical delivery—scripts, APIs, KQL tuning and log integrations—with business-facing skills in requirements, vendor management and audit evidence, enabling smooth SOC transitions and strong audit outcomes. His background as a CRM and systems analyst gives him an uncommon blend of security, automation and product-first thinking that helps bridge technical controls and user processes.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, Business Administration and Management, General, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, Business Administration and Management, General at Auckland University of TechnologyHigh School, High School at St Thomas Residential SchoolBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Kerala University
Github Skills (9)
chatbot7
ip-address5
hosts-file4
hosts3
hyper-v3
anthropic3
wsl22
windows-server2
windows2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vijaytilak/DSWS
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 107 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
vijaytilak/vtiger7
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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