Harshavardhan Malla

I build security that runs without humans in the loop.At the Arizona Department of Transportation I own cloud security posture across multi-region AWS and engineer self-healing remediation across a 9,500 endpoint fleet protecting infrastructure 7M+ residents depend on daily. When atransportation system fails here, it is not a ticket. It is a public safety event.WHAT I DOCustom detections, automated response playbooks, and AI-driven remediation that turn manual firefighting into fail-safe systems. Full modern SecOps stack: MDM,CSPM, SIEM, SOAR, ZTNA, DLP. I own the vulnerability management lifecycle end to end, from scan cadence and SLAs to org-level cloud guardrails, workload identity, and a Privileged Access Management program I built from the ground up.WHAT I BUILD OUTSIDE ITTwo live products, both shipped solo.Digitailor (digitailor.org), AI job-application platform. 96,818 postings indexed across 26,341 companies, with 21,493 employers scored for real H-1B sponsorship derived from DOL filings rather than self-reported claims. 13 applicant tracking system integrations. Built end to end in 13 weeks with2,100+ tests, every one written from a defect found on real data.Dwell (isdwell.com), property management platform for small and mid-size residential managers. Payments, leasing, maintenance, and marketing sites in one system. Currently onboarding founding customers.HOW I THINK ABOUT ITSecurity engineering and product engineering are the same discipline pointed at different failure modes. Both come down to what happens when a system meets reality and reality does not cooperate. That is why I treat security as a product problem rather than a ticket queue.ALSOI publish peer-reviewed research on AI-enhanced endpoint compliance and IoT resource optimization, review for journals in systems and security, judge national tech competitions, and speak at conferences.CORECloud Security (AWS) · Detection Engineering · Vulnerability Management · Microsoft Intune & Endpoint Security · IAM/PAM · Zero Trust · Security Automation · AI Systems DesignOpen to conversations on cloud security architecture, AI in SecOps, and securing public-sector critical infrastructure.→ harshavardhanmalla75@gmail.com