Engineering first. Architecture second. In that order, deliberately.

From July 2022 the work became architectural. As Security Architect with Unity Infotech for Ahli United Bank, I owned engineering and design assurance across application, cloud, network, identity, endpoint, data and third-party integrations. I implemented and operated the Microsoft security stack, led incident response, built adopted control patterns, and served as product owner for HSM and Purview/AIP.

At International Turnkey Systems I design and implement controls across cloud, identity, API and data layers for a regulated banking platform. That includes Entra ID and Conditional Access, KQL detection engineering and Sentinel SOAR automation, end-to-end threat modelling, vendor evaluation, and the security layer for agentic AI workloads: data leakage, prompt injection, auditability, human oversight and incident readiness.

I hold CISM, ISC2 CC, CCSK and Microsoft Azure security and DevOps certifications, and an M.Tech in Data Science from BITS Pilani with a specialisation in neural networks — which is why AI risk reads to me as an engineering problem rather than a headline.