Summary
Abhishek Agarwal is a Senior Cloud Security Engineer based in Seattle with eight years of hands-on experience securing cloud infrastructure and distributed systems across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes. An AWS Certified Security Specialist and Carnegie Mellon MS graduate (3.94 GPA), he combines offensive security experience—pentesting dozens of web, mobile, and cloud apps and finding numerous high-severity issues—with automation chops that have saved teams hundreds of man-hours through custom tooling and report generation. At Latacora he focuses on building resilient, production-ready defenses for startups, drawing on prior consulting roles at NCC Group and Safe Security where he automated IAM authorization testing and mentored junior engineers. He’s skilled in threat modeling, architecture review, reverse engineering, and secure software development, and is notable for turning complex security findings into business-facing remediation guidance.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, 3.94/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, 3.94/4.0 at Carnegie Mellon University