Pawan Kumar Pradhan

Developed a Statewide Digital Inclusion Asset Map for the state of Maryland using ArcGIS Suite.

Worked towards designing course materials, education toolkit and Digital Badges using LMS for the project.

Led research for $6M funded Digital Literacy Project, providing strategic insights, project management to support the project.

Built and Secured LLM & RAG systems by identifying prompt injection and data leakage risks, aligning with NIST AI RMF.Built agentic AI testing environments to detect adversarial behaviors and unsafe model outputs.

Conducted vulnerability assessments for web resources handling sensitive user data, implementing SSL encryption & privacy-preserving measures. Also managed web-resources & hosting using CMS (Drupal) & also developed everyday automations.

Collaborated on AI governance and secure deployment standards for educational tools.

Analyzed LLM implementations for potential data leakage risks in digital liter

Conducted complex cyber threat investigations and correlated OSINT data with internal telemetry to assess credibility and origin of attacks

Produced actionable intelligence reports and risk assessments for executive stakeholders on ransomware, APT, and phishing campaigns

Experienced in incident response, threat hunting, malware & phishing analysis with a track-record of timely detection & mitigation of potential threats such as ransomware, APTs, Botnet, DDoS, phishing & impersonation attacks.

Proactively performed 24/7 threat hunting, forensics, & incident response. My contributions helped scale the SOC from 6 clients to successfully overseeing 16 clients within a span of 2 years.

Successfully trained & onboarded 10+ security analysts within a 3-month period, resulting in 50% increase in incident handling