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Pritesh Gandhi

Ontario,Canada

Overview

4
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

MasterCard

MasterCard Cybersecurity Experience Program
04.2024 - 04.2024

Job overview

  • Completed job simulation where I served as analyst on MasterCard's Security Awareness Team.
  • Helped identify and report security threats such as phishing.
  • Analyzed and identified 3 areas of business which needed more robust security training and implemented training courses and procedures for those teams.

A. P. Shah Institute Of Technology

Software Developer
06.2020 - 02.2021

Job overview

  • Contributed to positive team environment through effective communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
  • Developed industry standard website and application for the institute.
  • Built responsive, accessible, and dynamic web pages and applications to enable users to easily navigate institutes website.
  • Recognized for developing and implementing new tools and procedures to reduce time of development by ~29%.

Education

University of Guelph
Guelph, ON

Master's of Cybersecurity And Threat Intelligence from Information Technology - Cybersecurity
01.2024

University Overview

University of Mumbai

Bachelor's of Engineering from Computer Science
07.2021

University Overview

Skills

  • Penetration Testing
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Programming
  • Problem-Solving
  • Web application development
  • Software Development
  • Intrusion Detection

Certification

  • Threat Hunting, Cisco - Issued Jun 2023
  • Foundation of Cybersecurity, Google - Issued May 2023
  • The Data Scientist's Toolbox, Cousera - Issued May 2020

Projects

Projects

SIEM including IDS using ELK stack.

  • Developed a SIEM system using Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana.
  • Used SLIPS which is a Machine Learning program used to monitor intrusion detection (IDS) using network logs.
  • System detected a DoS and DDoS attack with 97% accuracy.


JavaScript Malware Detection System using Machine Learning.

  • Based upon a IEEE paper to detect malicious javascript malware using lexical analysis.
  • Developed an efficient and responsive training model to distinguish malicious files on the system.
  • Created a optimized decision tree which selects the best possible model for efficiency.


A basic RPA system to find Jobs.

  • Successfully implemented Robotic Process Automation to find jobs on internet.
  • Understood the different concepts and tools in automation and executed it.
  • Won a position in the college hackathon for the project and gained skills that were useful in future projects.

Summary

As a dedicated cybersecurity graduate, I am passionate about safeguarding digital assets and preventing cyber threats. With a background in computer engineering and hands-on experience in web and application development, I bring a unique blend of technical skills and analytical thinking to the table.

Timeline

MasterCard Cybersecurity Experience Program
MasterCard
04.2024 - 04.2024
Software Developer
A. P. Shah Institute Of Technology
06.2020 - 02.2021
University of Guelph
Master's of Cybersecurity And Threat Intelligence from Information Technology - Cybersecurity
University of Mumbai
Bachelor's of Engineering from Computer Science
Pritesh Gandhi