Girish Mahabir

• Owned day-to-day Security Operations for production environments, improving visibility and response through SIEM tuning and operational playbooks.
• Mentored team delivery: onboarding, task structuring, and quality checks to drive consistent execution.
• Automated security workflows using Python/Bash and Infrastructure-as-Code practices for repeatable, auditable deployments.
• Strengthened access controls through IAM improvements (LDAP/SSO integration; Linux PAM configurations).
• Operationalized vulnerability findings into prioritized remediation actions aligned to risk.

• Teach network/security fundamentals and practical defensive controls aligned to real-world operations.
• Deliver hands-on labs and assignments on secure protocols, access control concepts, and secure operations habits.
• Build curriculum and assessments that connect theory to industry tooling and practices.

• Supported security operations and compliance-driven controls, including incident handling and security monitoring.
• Hardened Linux workloads and maintained secure network/system configurations.
• Collaborated cross-functionally to maintain reliability and secure delivery of production infrastructure.

• Optimized and automated ELK Stack operations using Ansible to standardize deployments and reduce manual effort.
• Delivered production hotfixes (Python) to preserve availability and resolve operational incidents.
• Led migrations and administered Linux/database environments with a reliability-first approach.

• Implemented ELK Stack for centralized monitoring/logging, and helped automate operational workflows.
• Managed Linux/web server operations, backup processes, VM migrations, and certificate lifecycle.
• Resolved operational incidents spanning compute, disk, network, and database stability.

• Deployed and secured Linux-based web/database servers (MariaDB & Galera clusters) for production use cases.
• Automated provisioning and patching with Ansible and Terraform; integrated RabbitMQ and Git-based CI/CD workflows.
• Built system tooling for monitoring and administration; created custom RPM packages to streamline deployments.

First Class Honors Degree

Main Projects

• Zero Trust Database Administration Architecture.
• AI-Powered Handwritten Digit Recognition System.
• Fire Detection and Gesture Recognition Robot (RPI).

Developers Conference 2025 - Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community

• Building a Zero-Trust Access Management with Teleport • Agenda link

Developers Conference 2024 - Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community

• Securing MariaDB: Essentials of Encryption, Protection, and Access Agenda link

CyberAI Threat ConClave 2025 - Jaipur, India

• Identity Evolution: Building Trust in a Borderless World - September 2025 • Session link