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Varun Govind B

Bangalore, 560016 | +91 8892399907 | varungovindb1@gmail.com

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Career Summary

Having around 5 years of experience in IT, in various domains like SIEM, Threat Intelligence and Production Support. I have handled Risk Reporting and Analysis, Security Monitoring, Security Incident Management and Incident Response. My core activity is currently focused on SIEM with Splunk. where we handle the installation of Forwarder Agents on different Servers and environments to ensure that the logs are continuously monitored. We also focus on creating and finetuning alerts to ensure optimal performance and to avoid false positive alerts. procedures are documented kept readily available for the team. Over the years I have worked with different clients from sectors like Banking and Telecommunications. I have handled clients from various locations like Germany, United Kingdom and Thailand. I have strong communication skills, which help me to maintain a positive relationship with the Clients and peers.

Work History

Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore

Systems Engineer (Feb 2020 - Present)

Deutsche Bank, Production Support Engineer (Feb 2020 - Jul 2022)

  • Worked on Risk Reporting for Trading data.
  • Provided support to 4 in-house applications of the bank designed for big data processing.
  • Leveraged technologies like Hadoop, SQL, Unix, Informatica and Control-m.
  • Backtracked java logics written in Informatica workflows to find the cause of errors in calculation.

Liberty Global, Threat Intelligence Analyst (Jan 2024 - Apr 2024)

  • Identified potential threats targeting the company using Anomali ThreatStream.
  • Raised cases to SOC Team and generated regular reports on threat levels and security posture.

True Corporation, Splunk Security Engineer (Apr 2024 - Present)

  • Worked with Splunk Enterprise Security for SIEM.
  • Onboarded log ingestions from servers and endpoint devices to Splunk.
  • Finetuned alerts to optimize queries and reduce false positive alerts.
  • Monitored health of Splunk instances and services to maintain system stability.

Macadam Management Services, Bangalore

Trainee Talent Advisor (Sep 2019 - Dec 2019)

  • Handled recruitment by identifying potential candidates and training them for specific job roles.
  • Coordinated interview processes by connecting with HRs from various companies.

Internships

Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore

Web Development

  • Supported maintaining the college website and designed a web application to manage alumni requests using PHP.
  • Supported the admission process of the college for smoother onboarding.

Scaling Socials, Bangalore

Web Development

  • Designed a website for a school with an AI integrated chatbot facility to manage the admission process of the school ( https://ekshapreschool.com/ ).
  • Managed domain and cloud hosting services for this project.

Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru — 2024

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)

Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru — 2019

12th Indian Composite PU College

2016

10th Eben Ezer Public School

2014

Skills

Operating Systems

Windows, Linux, MacOS

Technologies

Splunk, Informatica, Unix, SQL, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Anomali ThreatStream, Prompt Engineering, AWS cloud hosting services

Designing

Canva, Photoshop, CoralDraw, Filmora

Soft Skills

Leadership, Team Collaboration, Adaptability

Leadership Roles

Certification

Achievements

Languages