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title: "Fabiha Makhdoomi - Technical SE - AzureAD in Pune City | Tal"
description: "Meet Fabiha Makhdoomi, Azure Identity Engineer @ Microsoft | Cybersecurity in the age of AI: Identity, Cloud & securing AI agents | (ISC)² Associate based in Pune City. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex."
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# Fabiha Makhdoomi on Tal

## Headline

Azure Identity Engineer @ Microsoft \| Cybersecurity in the age of AI: Identity, Cloud & securing AI agents \| \(ISC\)² Associate

## About

I'm an Azure Identity support engineer at Microsoft working on the problems that don't have clean answers, identity incidents across Entra ID, least\-privilege enforcement across RBAC/PIM, and hybrid\-identity failures spanning Entra Connect, AD trusts, and Conditional Access\. Before Microsoft, I was a detection engineer at Securonix, where I authored and improved YAML detection content mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and built automations that raised detection test coverage from 50% to 80% and caught critical policy errors before they reached production\. I've also shipped AI\-driven compliance automation for a UK healthcare client and co\-authored an IEEE\-presented paper \(TinyDNABERT\)\. What I bring: identity\-threat investigation, least\-privilege design, detection engineering, and a habit of automating the root cause instead of patching the symptom\. Microsoft\-certified across security and Azure\. Open to connecting on cloud security, identity, and detection engineering\.

## Location

Pune City

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

grok

hugging face

langfuse

mcp

## Work experience

Technical SE \- AzureAD at Microsoft, Sep 2025 \- Present · 11 mos, Pune District, • Investigate and resolve high\-severity enterprise environment Entra ID identity incidents, including phishing and account compromises\. • Remediate RBAC/PIM to enforce least privilege, optimizing access management across ARM and subscriptions\. • Troubleshoot hybrid\-identity and cross\-tenant failures, providing preventative design guidance to enhance security\. • Provide guidance and advisory for secure and compliant Entra configurations\.

AI Solutions Architect at ProjektAnalytics\. Technologies Private Limited, May 2025 \- Sep 2025 · 5 mos, Remote, • Analyzed market requirements by collaborating with stakeholders and designed an AI\-based regulatory compliance solution for the UK pharmaceutical industry\. • Led a team of three to ensure successful implementation and adoption of the solution\. • Optimized and secured the solution's Azure cloud deployment in compliance with HIPAA and EU data regulations\.

Detection Engineer Intern at Securonix, Jul 2024 \- May 2025 · 11 mos, Bangalore Urban, • Collaborated as a QA Engineer within the Detection & Content team for SNYPR\(A SIEM by Securonix\), focusing on testing detection content and security incident workflows\. • Identified and reported bugs, contributing to the resolution of core platform issues and enhancing the detection content lifecycle\. • Transitioned to the Detection Development team, where I built new detections/tooling and improved existing rules and content proactively via scripting and automations\. • Automated the QA harness for detection content quality, streamlining the review process and enhancing internal tooling\.

Summer Intern at IIT Bhubaneswar, Jun 2023 \- Jul 2023 · 2 mos, Odisha, India, • Collaborated with Professor DP Dogra and M Sathpathy on research focused on COVID pattern analysis\. • Developed a novel sequential estimation algorithm utilizing the Wald SPRT methodology\. • Received appreciation for contributions and will be publishing the findings\. • Gained hands\-on experience in statistical analysis and algorithm development at IIT Bhubaneswar\.

Research Intern at Samsung R&D Institute India, May 2023 \- Jan 2024 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, • Collaborated with a team of three senior engineers and an associate professor on the PRISM project at Samsung R&D Institute India\. • Researched and developed a state\-of\-the\-art end to end speaker diarization solution, comparable to SpeechBrain\. • Deployed the solution onto Azure, enabling near real\-time speaker diarization as a service integration\(SDaaS\) for end users into their workflows\.

## Education

Diploma of Education, Data Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

BTech, Computer Science, Siksha 'O'​ Anusandhan University

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