Vishakh Lakshmikanth

Vishakh Lakshmikanth began their work experience in 2014 as a Technical Associate at Technophilia. In 2017, they joined DePaul University as a Graduate Assistant and later became a Graduate Research Assistant. In 2018, Vishakh joined Mercury® Financial as a Cloud DevOps Engineer and later transitioned to Lead Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineer. In 2021, they became a Senior Solutions Architect and currently holds the position of Head of Cloud Engineering at Mercury® Financial.

Vishakh Lakshmikanth holds a Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Science - Software and Systems Development from DePaul University. Vishakh also has a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya Technological University. Additionally, they have obtained several certifications including Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacker from SANS Institute, Payment Card Industry Professional (PCIP) from PCI Security Standards Council, Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect - Professional from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Certified Microservices Engineer from Cprime, Inc, Elastic Certified Engineer from Elastic, and Zscaler Certified Cloud Administrator from Zscaler.