# Nikhil M. > Engineer at CarGurus Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nikhilm1 Currently, working as a Senior Software Engineer at CarGurus. Worked for over 4 years at Securonix where my primary responsibility was building and stabilizing state of the art SIME and UEBA solution. Adding new features for enterprise security application like Security Command Center, Incident Management, Configurable dashboards, GDPR, RBAC, and MSSP capabilities. I was instrumental in developing the security command center which is being used by Security Operations(SOC) teams to act against threats and also remediate them in near real time. The remediation involves using threat management and incident management with customized workflows to different teams in an organization. Completed my Bachelors in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya Technological University(VTU) class of 2012. Had been part of iGate Global Solution now acquired by Capgemini Worldwide for 8 months. Graduated from the University of Southern California with Masters in Cyber Security Engineering, Class of 2015. ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ CarGurus Jan 2022 – Present | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ CarGurus Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Boston Area Working on modernizing infrastructure for listing feeds and leads using microservices and dockerizing the environment. Along with that improving performance of the existing application. ### Lead Software Engineer @ Securonix Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area Building and stabilizing state of the art SIME solution. Adding new features for enterprise security application like Security Command Center, Incident Management, Configurable dashboards, GDPR, RBAC, and MSSP. Worked as a full-stack engineer using Big Data stack. Majority of my work involves using Java for backend work and Javascript for front end work. My work involves very high interaction with Hbase, Solr, HDFS which is our data storage and MySql for configurations. Lead a team of 5 which works on similar lines, involves mentoring, reviewing, providing optimized solutions. I was instrumental in developing the security command center which is being used by SOC teams to act against threats and also remediate them in real-time. The remediation involves using threat management and incident management with customized workflows to different teams in an organization. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Securonix Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area ### Software Engineer @ Securonix Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area I part of the connectors team which involved using REST APIs for ingesting data into our application from third party logs. Building APIs and parsers for Securonix Intelligence Application from different sources like Google, Microsoft, SAP, ArcSight, Splunk, Cerner, Epic which will be used for user behavior analytics ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ USC Viterbi School of Engineering Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater Los Angeles Area •Worked under Prof. Roger Schell, developing lab manual to serve as primary student reference for course lab •Creating lab program assignments, providing advice and guidance to students •Writing reference solutions, and grading lab programs students summited •Support as a potential participant in the research proposal to NSF from USC/ISI Cyber Security group ### Intern @ ETC - Entertainment Technology Center @ USC Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 “Production in the Cloud” a new project that brings together a core group of key media and cloud-resource leaders to develop guidelines and accelerate innovation and adoption of next-gen cloud-based content creation, production, and distribution tools and processes. Senior executives from the six major studios in coordination with Rackspace, EMC, EVault, Front Porch Digital, DAX, Google and other cloud companies convened recently to serve as governing body to collectively guide this process. I am involved in developing String Project, that helps in developing the cloud platform. ### Software Engineer @ iGATE Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 This was a project for a major " titled" bank in North America. I was involved in the complete SDLC of the project. I was involved in developing the UI of the system. Constructed the major part of system pop-ups and user authentication. Developed the teller withdrawal part of the system. I have done the Oracle certification in SQl and PL/SQL, which was required by client. ### Intern @ Veritorn Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Did my final year project that was based on cloud computing and homomorphic encryption. Programmed administrative component of project with 25 unique components, developed client login credentials, cloud encryption and decryption functionality and assignment of nodes for Homomorphic Encryption (HE) algorithm, Conducted unit, integration and system testing on beta version of software, debugged errors and bugs ## Education ### Master's degree in Cyber Security University of Southern California ### B.E. in Computer Science P.E.S College of Engineering ### SSLC and PUC in PCMB Sri Ramakrishna Vidyashala,Mysore ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikhil-m-48046339 --- Source: https://flows.cv/nikhilm1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nikhilm1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31