Shantanu Parashar

Shantanu Parashar is a skilled Security Engineer currently working at Confluent since June 2023. Prior to this role, Shantanu served as a Software Developer at a confidential company from January 2021 to June 2023, focusing on designing scalable software solutions and integrating security protocols. Shantanu also has experience as a System Administrator at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) from July 2018 to June 2020, where responsibilities included managing Rsyslog and ELK for logging, as well as deploying OSSEC and honeypots for threat detection. Additionally, Shantanu held the position of Head Teaching Assistant for Operating Systems, leading tutorials and practical labs for postgraduate students, and served as a Teaching Assistant for undergraduate Mathematics III under Professor Laxmi Burra. Shantanu holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and a Master of Science by Research in Computer Science, both from IIITH.