Dave Chakrabarti
Independent Technology & Security Consultant at Self-employed
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolDave Chakrabarti is an independent technology and security consultant with over a decade of experience advising executives and boards on digital transformation, cloud migrations, and enterprise security governance. He has led 15+ person engineering organizations and managed million-dollar portfolios, delivering zero reportable security incidents over a five-year engagement and architecting a Zero Trust IAM for 45,000+ users that cut provisioning time by 97%. Equally comfortable in governance and hands-on delivery, he has directed incident response to full NIST 800-61 lifecycles, built compliance-first platforms for multi-jurisdictional associations, and led USAID-funded cloud and Drupal deployments across national universities. Recently deepening his technical credentials, he completed an MS in Cybersecurity Management and Policy, earned multiple GIAC certifications via a competitive SANS fellowship, and is pursuing an MBA at Gies. Known for translating technical risk into business language, he blends pragmatic security engineering with agile program leadership and an uncommon background in international civic tech and capacity-building.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Artificial Intelligence, Certificate, Artificial Intelligence at University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of BusinessMaster of Science - MS, Cybersecurity Management and Policy, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity Management and Policy at University of Maryland Global CampusMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Global Strategy, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Global Strategy at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaryland Cybersecurity Academy, Cybersecurity, Maryland Cybersecurity Academy, Cybersecurity at SANS Technology Institute
Bengali, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
sensor9
programming-tools9
linode7
vagrant6
virtualbox6
android6
android-app6
drupal6
ansible5
linux5
windows5
cms4
docker4
macos4
mental-health2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nonprofitable/nonprofitable.github.io
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:84 pushes in 6 months
jekylljekyll-themeart
nonprofitable/tealeaf-ruby
Sep 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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