Akhil Kulal

Cybersecurity engineer

I find security gaps in cloud infrastructure, then build the tooling that keeps them closed.

Based in Bengaluru, with a DevOps background in AWS and CI/CD. I work on cloud threat monitoring, application security automation and audit readiness.

Cloud security
AppSec automation
ISO 27001
ISO 42001
SOC 2 Type 2

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Selected work

SAST scanning built into the pipeline

Automated static analysis on pushes to configured branches. A 90-day rule keeps scan cost down, manual runs always scan, and every finding lands on one dashboard.
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- CI/CD
- Static analysis
- Security dashboard
Cost dashboard for company-wide generative AI

Turns AWS Bedrock token usage into per-user spend and sends a Slack alert when someone passes their weekly budget.
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- AWS Bedrock
- Databases
- Slack alerts
Real-time uptime and disk monitoring

A live view of application status, disk usage and critical metrics with downtime email alerts, built for a financial services platform.
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- AWS
- Monitoring
- Alerting

What I work with

Security: Incident response, GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, SAST and DAST, vulnerability management and patching, access reviews, security questionnaires
Compliance: ISO 27001, ISO 42001, SOC 2 Type 2
Cloud: AWS: EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, SNS
Automation: Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Git, Python, Shell

Contact me

I'm open to cybersecurity engineering roles in cloud security, application security and compliance. Email is the fastest way to reach me.