Dishitha Gurram

Learned and applied Claude Code + Claude APIs for AI-assisted MVP prototyping; built a SaaS onboarding website and improved prompt engineering + API integration through rapid iteration. ACM Hackathon Participant – Built “Pawrganizer”, an event aggregation platform for campus activities

- Led the Security Controls Automation project for NIST-aligned endpoint compliance using Python and PowerShell. - Automated validation and evidence collection for 15% of security controls, reducing manual audit prep; improved real-time alerting and kept control coverage gaps under 5%. - Won an Honors Award for building an EDGAR SEC 8-K monitoring scraper that flags breach-related disclosures across U.S. companies.

Risk Assessments: Performed hardware and software qualitative RA's aligned with the NIST framework. ServiceNow Development: Built forms and automated workflows streamlining IT service delivery.

Bad Mail Management: Categorizied ~1,000 reported suspicious emails (phishing, spam, internal threats) using Cortex XSOAR, VirusTotal, and O365 ATP. Won Appreciation Award for the significant contribution towards email security operations.

* Secured All India Rank (AIR) 5 * Submitted research on "Preventing cyber-attacks against national modern and power infrastructure Smart Grid" focused on: • Cyber deterrence challenges, like legacy protocols, DDoS and APTs • Utilizing reference architectures like NISTIR 7628, SGAM, and SANS • Proposing security patterns emphasizing access control, network security, endpoint protection • Benchmarking success using the MITRE framework and international legal treaties * Topics covered in the apprenticeship program: Forensics, MITRE Framework, social engineering, malware, race conditions, threats, cyber attacks, threat vectors, cyber defense, firewalls, SIEM, penetration testing, and more.

Coursework: - Programing Design Paradigm - Database Management Systems - Algorithms - Foundations of AI

Relevant Courses: - C, Python, C++ - Data Structures, Design Analysis and Algorithms, Object Oriented Analysis and Design using Java - Cloud Computing, Web Technologies, DBMS, Operating Systems, Software Engineering and Testing - Statistics for Data Science, Machine Learning, Linear Algebra, Discrete Mathematics - Cybersecurity Specialization : Computer Networks and Security, Information Security, Internet of Things (IoT), Web Security, and Digital Forensics