TANISH ANAND GEDALA

I work across AI security analysis, cloud defense, SOC engineering, application security, and compliance automation. This site collects my projects, certifications, leadership work, and notes from building practical security systems.

Job Experience

AI Security Analyst @ American Express (via IntraEdge)

Current

Cybersecurity Analyst Intern @ Birlasoft

Dec 2023 - Apr 2025

Tech Team Lead @ CYSEC GITAM Student Club

Led 5+ practical sessions across web security, cryptography, forensics, threat intelligence, and OPSEC.

Chapter Leader @ OWASP

Organized security awareness sessions and hands-on workshops for 100+ learners.

Side Projects & Tooling

Automated Compliance Evidence Extractor (ACE)

Python and AWS automation to collect, normalize, tag, validate, and package SOC 2 / ISO 27001 evidence from CloudTrail, GuardDuty, and WAF. Reduced manual evidence preparation by about 60%.

Virtualized SOC Lab

Built a Proxmox lab with 6+ Windows/Linux VMs using Wazuh, Zeek, Suricata, and Security Onion for detection engineering and forensic analysis.

AWS SOC + Galah Honeypot

Deployed Galah with Elastic Stack and LLM-based enrichment in AWS. Captured 2,500+ intrusion attempts, identified 30+ C2-linked IPs, and reduced manual analysis by about 40%.

Honors & Recognition

Achievement Result Year
SHORE CTF Champion, tri-university competition 2025
c0nc0nCTF Rank 12 2025
Glacier CTF 8th Rank 2025
UST Global CTF Top 30 AIR 2024
Phantom Flags 2.0 CTF Top 20 2024
Black Hat Asia Singapore Student Asia Scholar 2025
Digipol Hackathon Recognized contributor in Ministry of Defence initiative 2025

Certifications

CEH v13

Certified Ethical Hacker

Evaluation certificate

AWS CCP

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Google Cybersecurity

Professional Certificate

CAP

Certified AppSec Practitioner

Skills and Technologies

Programming Python, Bash, Go, JavaScript, Java, C, SQL/PostgreSQL, HTML, REST APIs
Security Kali Linux, Networking, AWS IAM, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, WAF, OWASP Top 10, Identity and Access Management
Detection Elastic Stack, Splunk, Wazuh, ArcSight, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar, Zeek, Suricata, Security Onion
Tools Burp Suite, Cortex XSOAR, Nessus, Nmap, Metasploit, Wireshark, Postman API
GRC ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, risk assessment, vendor risk review, evidence collection, control mapping

Education

B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering (Cyber Security)

GITAM University - CGPA 8.42