Vinayak Thakare

Vinayak Thakare's work experience begins with their current position as a Cyber Security Consultant at Cybalt, which started in April 2023. Prior to this role, they held the position of Senior Associate Consultant at Kiya.ai from October 2019 to March 2023. In this role, Vinayak provided support to various IT security products and platforms, evaluated OEMs for partnerships, and developed technical skills for IT Infrastructure Security.

Before joining Kiya.ai, Vinayak worked as a Consultant at SEQURETEK from June 2018 to October 2019. In this role, they consulted clients on SOC architecture design and implementation, served as the onsite SPOC for SOC delivery services, and handled incident handling and escalation. Vinayak also performed security operations tasks such as firewall and DLP rules configuration, vulnerability assessment, and reporting.

Prior to becoming a Consultant, Vinayak worked as a Network Security Engineer at SEQURETEK from September 2015 to June 2018. In this role, they led delivery services projects for firewall review and VLAN security, as well as PAN India routing-switching projects for a retail customer.

Vinayak Thakare holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Mumbai University, Mumbai. The duration of their education and any additional degrees or fields of study are not provided.