Giridhar Lakshmanan
About Giridhar Lakshmanan
Giridhar Lakshmanan is a Security Engineer II at Delivery Hero in Berlin, with a background in IT security roles at Infosys, Epsilon, and Cognizant.
Current Position at Delivery Hero
Giridhar Lakshmanan currently holds the position of Security Engineer II at Delivery Hero in Berlin. In his role, he has made substantial improvements to the phishing workflow to automate response and remediation. Additionally, he has created rules on the SentinelOne EDR and conducted in-depth investigations into security events, including blocking hashes and managing endpoint security.
Previous Experience at Infosys
Before joining Delivery Hero, Giridhar Lakshmanan amassed significant experience at Infosys. He worked as a Senior Associate Consultant Security from 2019 to 2022 and as an Associate Consultant (Security) from 2018 to 2019. In these roles, he handled major incidents as a senior SOC engineer, collaborated with CSIRT for comprehensive investigations and remediations, and managed escalated alerts from various security tools including Splunk, GCP SCC, and AWS GD.
Experience at Epsilon and Cognizant
Giridhar Lakshmanan also gained valuable experience working at Epsilon and Cognizant. At Epsilon, he served as an IT Security Analyst 2 from 2017 to 2018. Prior to that, he worked at Cognizant as a Senior System Engineer from 2014 to 2017. His roles across these companies focused on enhancing IT security protocols and managing security operations.
Educational Background
Giridhar Lakshmanan completed his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Anna University, where he studied from 2008 to 2012. This foundational education has been instrumental in his successful career in IT security and engineering roles.
Skills and Technical Expertise
Giridhar Lakshmanan possesses a range of technical skills fundamental to his role as a security engineer. He has worked on multiple security tools, including AWS Guard Duty, GCP SCC, Cloudflare, and Splunk. He is also learning Python to enhance his automation capabilities and contribute to creating an automated SOC environment. Lakshmanan made several improvements to workflows and created new alerts using the SOAR platform Rapid7 Insight Connect.