Siddharth Panigrahi

Siddharth Panigrahi has a diverse work experience spanning multiple industries. Siddharth started their career at Accenture as a Network Provisioner Engineer, where they were responsible for circuit provisioning and configuring VLANs on switches. Siddharth then interned as a Cloud System Administrator at DBI, where they worked on EC2 instances provisioning and managed virtual machines on AWS. Siddharth then joined N.E.T.S for the US Department of Veterans Affairs as a System Administrator, where they ensured network and system availability and integrity, performed vulnerability scans, and enforced compliance with security controls and frameworks. At DXC Technology, Siddharth served as an Information Security Engineer, designing and implementing Windows Defender anti-malware policies and documenting malware and ransomware playbooks. Siddharth also onboarded devices into Defender for Endpoint and conducted testing. Currently, Siddharth is working as a Cloud Security Consultant at Mirai Security Inc.

Siddharth Panigrahi has a diverse education history. Siddharth obtained a Master's degree in Computer Networks from California State University - East Bay, studying from 2013 to 2015. Prior to that, they earned a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Krupajal Engineering College from 2007 to 2011. Siddharth also completed their +2 education in Science from G.M Junior College between 2005 and 2007.

Furthermore, Siddharth completed their primary schooling at St. Joseph Convent Higher Secondary School in Sambalpur from 1993 to 2005.

In terms of certifications, Siddharth has acquired several throughout their career. Siddharth obtained the LPIC-1 certification from the Linux Professional Institute and the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification from Eccouncil and EC-Council in 2015 and 2021, respectively. Siddharth also holds the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification from Amazon Web Services, as well as the Microsoft 365 Security (MS-500), Microsoft Azure Security AZ-500, and Microsoft Azure administrator certifications from Microsoft. These certifications were attained in various years ranging from 2020 to 2021.