Hi, my name is Anshul Singhal and I live in Baltimore, MD. I am a graduate of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad in India, and currently pursuing my master’s in information security from Johns Hopkins University. I completed my bachelor’s in Computer Science in 2018 and have worked as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs, followed by high-frequency trading firm AlphaGrep securities, where I worked as a Senior Analyst.

Favorite Topics

I’m very interested in InfoSec, FOSS, Linux, Computer Networks, Distributed Systems, Security and DevOps. I love exploring Hackernews, Github and Stackoverflow.

I love to travel. You can explore my travel blog here. I write poems, love biking, and cycling

Skills

Here comes a list of subjects I’ve worked with, grouped by topics…

Scripting and Programming Languages

C • Low Latency C++ • Python • PHP • Ruby • JAVA • BASH

Operating Systems

Linux • Microsoft Windows

Cloud Orchestration and DevOps

Amazon Web Services (AWS) • TerraForm • Chef • Docker • Capistrano • ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) • Jenkins • Postfix • Redis • Consul • Datadog • Newrelic

Web Devlopment

ReactJS • Django • PHP • SCSS • Jquery.

General Software

git SCM • Web Server (Nginx and Apache) • DBs (MySQL, PostgresSQL) • Virtualization (LXC, Docker and VMware)

Experience

Alphagrep Securities as Senior Analyst April, 2020 - August, 2021

Low Latency C++ Developer Simulation Architecture Design

After almost two years at Goldman, I joined AlphaGrep Securities, where my primary work responsibility was to write low latency C++ code. High Frequency Trading is an extremely time-sensitive activity, and it falls on me to reduce latency with best network programming practices, and build efficient systems.

Goldman Sachs as Analyst May, 2018 - Present

IBD Technology Java Slang Gitlab Cloud

At Goldman Sachs, which I joined through campus placements, I worked both as a software engineer and security engineer. I made an internal web app for banking systems in ReactJS, which is in use across different teams even today. I promoted security best practices, organised talks, and a successful CTF for colleagues. I designed architectures of new systems and products, implemented new features, built data pipelines, and fixed bugs for the ’Honest Dollar by Goldman Sachs’.

Kayako as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Intern May, 2017 - July, 2017

AWS Datadog Chef Redis Elastic Search

  • Configured Datadog and Newrelic for system-wide monitoring and alerting.
  • Wrote chef recipes for monitoring tools configs management.

It was a great place to get to know a large infrastructure and I finally started automating things in the cloud. I learned about SRE protocols, provisioning, automating deployments but unfortunately, I couldn’t work on those tools due to time limitation.

You can find detailed post on my internship here

JustKapture as DevOps Engineer Feb, 2016 - Aug, 2016

AWS Jenkins Capistrano Chef MySQL

Leaded the DevOps team of JustKapture. Developed CI/CD pipeline, Configured chef, reduced response times of the product by > 85%.

OWASP OWTF as Software Developer Feb, 2016 - Present

ReactJS Flask Tornado PostgresSQL Python

OWASP OWTF is a project focused on penetration testing efficiency and alignment of security tests. It is one of OWASP’s mature Flagship projects. I am responsible for building whole new UI using ReactJS, adding new features, fixing reported bugs/issues.

IIIT Hyderabad as Web administrator Jan, 2017 - Present

PHP Scripting
Working as Web administrator at my college, I am developing and managing portals for day-to-day automation. I am responsible for reliability, bug fixing and adding new features to existing portals.

Education

I am currently pursuing my master’s in information security from Johns Hopkins University.

I completed my B.Tech in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad.