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Saad Patel

Saad Patel

WAF Engineer

Mumbai
80
Profile Score

About

WAF Engineer with enterprise-level hands-on experience in F5 ASM, LTM, and AFM — configuring security policies, managing SSL offloading, and implementing Bot Defense and DDoS mitigation in production environments. Built an AI-powered Nginx observability platform integrating Ollama, Splunk, and automated IP blocking, demonstrating initiative beyond day-to-day operations. Targeting roles in WAF/App Security, DevSecOps, and Cloud Security where deep F5 expertise meets modern DevOps tooling.

Skills & Expertise (23)

DDoS Mitigation Intermediate
7.3/10
1
Years Exp
AWS Beginner
6.5/10
1
Years Exp
GitHub F5 LTM Git NoSQL RDBMS Monolithic Event-Driven Microservices Windows LINUX Bash Python Grafana Prometheus Splunk Ansible Terraform Kubernetes (K8s Docker TLS SSL

Work Experience

Network Security Analyst

Inspira Enterprise India LTD.

Jul 2025 - Present

Administered F5 ASM, LTM, and AFM across a 10-device active-passive HA cluster for banking and financial sector clients, managing 80+ VIPs across multi-site deployments. Tuned ASM policies end-to-end — signature updates, violation enforcement, URL/parameter whitelisting, file type rules, metacharacter handling, and parameter length; configured Bot Defense and DDoS rate-limiting profiles per application. Executed F5 OS upgrades with zero downtime using a rolling active-passive failover approach — upgrading passive first, promoting to active, validating stability, then repeating for remaining pairs. Managed SSL certificate lifecycle, wrote custom iRules, performed PCAP-based troubleshooting, handled vendor support cases (QKView, log/policy export), and configured routing and LTM persistence for high availability.

Education

BE — Computer Engineering with Honours in Cyber Security - Shree L.R. Tiwari College of Engineering

2022 - 2025 · Afghanistan

AWS Academy Graduate — Cloud Foundations - Amazon Web Services (AWS Academy)

- 2024 · Afghanistan

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Profile Score Breakdown

📷 Photo 10/10
📄 Resume 10/10
💼 Job Title 10/10
✍️ Bio 10/10
🛠️ Skills 20/20
🎓 Education 10/10
⏱️ Experience 5/15
💰 Rate 0/5
🏆 Certs 0/5
Verified 5/5
Total Score 80/100

Profile Overview

Member sinceMar 2026