Kanishka Sahoo

Built internal systems that made security operations easier to configure, search, and assess.

• Built a FastAPI configuration management system for an incident dashboard used by approximately 200 engineers.
• Developed LangChain semantic search over Jira tickets, reducing incident triage time by up to 75%.
• Built an AI-agent vendor risk scanner that reduced privacy and service analysis time by 90%.

Studied email threats through red- and blue-team exercises and built pre-inbox detection controls.

• Analyzed phishing, account takeover, sender spoofing, and related email attacks.
• Built a real-time filter to identify and block malicious messages before inbox delivery.

Created a repeatable digital-forensics method for Google Drive Desktop artifacts on Windows.

• Mapped registry, filesystem, startup, sync, and post-uninstall remnants.
• Traced artifact changes across installation, first run, normal use, and uninstall stages.
• Standardized collection, comparison, and reporting procedures.