Experience | Apoorve Bhargava

CohesitySan Jose, CAAug 2026 to present

Identity threat detection and response across the identity providers enterprises actually run on: Entra ID, Okta, Ping and Active Directory.
Detection and attack-path analysis across identity systems, where the questions are close to my own research: reachability over a typed graph of security-relevant relationships.

Amazon Web Services, License ManagerSanta Clara, CAJan 2025 to Aug 2026

Built backend services in Java and Python for License Asset Groups, giving enterprise and government customers cross-region software licence visibility across AWS Organizations.
Developed the Resource Sweeper, an event-driven reconciliation service on EventBridge and Lambda that detects and reclaims dangling resources domain-joined into customer VPCs, reducing unmanaged attack surface as well as cloud spend.
Built an anomaly detector for Metering and Entitlements: a statistical detection pipeline over a cross-account Glue and Lambda architecture that segments buyers by usage band and flags abnormal consumption, reaching roughly 87 percent alert precision across the highest-usage tier.
Designed DynamoDB pipelines aggregating licence consumption across distributed cloud environments, and automated expiration notifications that cut manual audit overhead.
Worked on AWS Marketplace ISV onboarding, reducing vendor onboarding time from about a week to a couple of hours.

Broadcom via HCL America, VMware Cloud on AWSSan Jose, CAJul 2024 to Jan 2025

Built Java and Python microservices for VMware Cloud on AWS, including NSX network virtualization services used across internal engineering teams.
Implemented backdoor routing services for SDDCs, enabling multi-cloud failover and infrastructure continuity.
Contributed StackStorm integrations for a real-time alarm metrics pipeline, pushing the improvements upstream.
Designed Spring Boot services for vulnerability management within software-defined data centres on AWS and Dell EMC.

UNC Charlotte, Bioinformatics and Data SystemsCharlotte, NCMay 2023 to May 2024

Built a bioinformatics tooling platform in Node.js, TypeScript and MongoDB for federally funded biomedical research.
Architected real-time collaborative infrastructure over WebSockets for multi-investigator scientific workflows.
Designed data management supporting reproducibility and governance aligned with NIH data sharing standards.

VMwareBengaluru, IndiaJan 2022 to Jul 2022

Built Spring Boot and Python microservices for a cloud vulnerability management system covering AWS and on-prem SDDCs, managing over 100 million user entries.
Engineered RESTful APIs for service-to-service interaction and lifecycle management at enterprise scale.
Set up Prometheus monitoring and alerting, cutting system downtime by 40 percent.
Contributed to the StackStorm open-source project, streamlining the transmission of 30,000+ metrics from Telegraf agents across distributed cloud systems.

Amdocs Development CentreGurugram, IndiaAug 2020 to Jan 2022

Built cloud-native OSS microservices for Telstra with Spring Boot and Apache Kafka, moving data both ways between upstream and downstream APIs at scale.
Implemented an API security layer with Kubernetes cluster-level routing, Spring Security and Java servlets to enforce pre-authentication guardrails across services.
Led a Kafka transaction simulation and automation testing framework on Cucumber and TestNG, reducing average test cycle time by 70 percent.
Designed an email dispatch module for jeopardy order escalation inside an order orchestration pipeline, improving SLA adherence.

Arista NetworksBengaluru, IndiaJan 2020 to Jun 2020

Developed and optimised network protocol implementations with TCP/IP, Python and Bash across the enterprise networking stack.
Automated network configuration and performance monitoring in Python, reducing manual intervention in network operations.