Rachana Rajesh

Application Security Engineer
4years of work
Master’sUniversity of North Carolina (UNC Charlotte)
B2English
3companies

Overview

Cybersecurity-focused professional with an M.S. in Cybersecurity from UNC Charlotte. Experience includes security operations work such as tuning Wazuh SIEM detections and aligning findings to MITRE ATT&CK, plus network security investigations using Wireshark and Suricata. Also has software engineering experience building and troubleshooting JavaScript-based enterprise workflows and API integrations at Work4Flow.
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Timeline

Software Engineer · Middle
Work4Flow · Full-Time
Jun 2026 to Present 5 Months

Developed and troubleshot JavaScript-based enterprise workflows, including integrations with external APIs. Worked on evaluation processes related to agentic AI. Applied security and automation awareness in workflow and integration implementation.

Security Analyst · Middle
Relevance Labs
Sep 2025 to Dec 2025 3 Months

• Fine-tuned Wazuh SIEM detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, reducing false positives by approximately 35% and improving alert accuracy and detection reliability.

• Led end-to-end incident response and SIEM-based monitoring, including alert triage, log analysis, threat investigation, containment, and post-incident documentation.

• Identified exposed attack surfaces and security misconfigurations through proactive security reviews and recommended remediation to engineering teams.

• Analyzed phishing and malicious attachment threats using Perception Point and improved detection and escalation workflows.

Software Engineer · Middle
Hewlett Packard
Jan 2022 to Jul 2024 2 Years 6 Months

• Performed network-security monitoring and threat detection using Wireshark and Suricata, analyzing logs, packet captures, and anomalous network behavior.

• Developed and automated network-security monitoring workflows using Python, C, and Lua, reducing manual effort by approximately 40%.

• Designed and supported secure environments using SD-WAN, firewalls, VPNs, TCP/IP, and RADIUS-based authentication and access controls.

• Used Git and GitHub as the primary codebase and version-control workflow for source control, collaboration, branching, and code reviews.

• Performed basic malware and suspicious-script analysis using PowerShell and Bash to support investigation and troubleshooting of security-related behavior.

• Investigated network and security issues through packet analysis, protocol troubleshooting, log review, and root-cause analysis.

University of North Carolina (UNC Charlotte)
Master's Degree · Cybersecurity
Charlotte, North Carolina

Technical skills

JavaScript
Python
Lua
Cybersecurity
SIEM
Wazuh
Wireshark
Suricata
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD

Job preferences

Work permits
United States
Employment type
Full-Time
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