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suresh-1001/README.md

Hi, I'm Suresh Chand 👋

Director of IT · San Jose, CA
20+ years building, securing, and operating enterprise infrastructure — from fintech to SaaS to enterprise.

I'm hands-on across the full stack: identity, endpoints, Linux infrastructure, containers, monitoring, compliance, and automation. I don't just manage IT — I build it.

Suresh Chand Banner 📄 View my case studies · 💼 LinkedIn · 🌐 Linesight Digital


🔑 What I Work On

Area Tools & Technologies
Identity & Access Microsoft Entra ID · Conditional Access · MFA · Intune · Active Directory
Security & Compliance PCI DSS 4.0.1 · CIS Benchmarks · Kali Linux · Wazuh · Defender for Endpoint
Linux Infrastructure Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 · Fedora CoreOS · Docker · Podman · NGINX · FreeRADIUS
Monitoring & Observability Prometheus · Grafana · Alertmanager · Wazuh · Elasticsearch
Automation & Scripting PowerShell · Python · Microsoft Graph SDK · Butane/Ignition · systemd
Email Security DKIM · DMARC · SPF · OME · Exchange Online
Cloud & Networking Azure · OCI · Cloudflare · Technitium DNS
Virtualization VMware ESXi · vSphere · Hyper-V · Proxmox

🏆 Career Highlights

  • ✅ Led PCI DSS 4.0.1 certification end-to-end — gap analysis through audit completion — at a fintech company
  • ✅ Built automated evidence pipeline cutting audit prep time by ~60%
  • ✅ Designed Entra ID Conditional Access architecture balancing security and usability at scale
  • ✅ Resolved a company-wide email outage caused by sensitivity label encryption misconfiguration
  • ✅ Deployed Prometheus + Grafana + Alertmanager stack with Telegram alerting for real-time ops visibility
  • ✅ Built Fedora CoreOS + Podman infrastructure using Butane → Ignition automated provisioning
  • ✅ Implemented 1-click on/offboarding via PowerShell + Intune + Slack reducing provisioning from hours to minutes

📂 Featured Repos

Repo What It Does
case-studies Real-world IT wins — PCI DSS automation, on/offboarding, SOC visibility
pci-dss-certification-automation PowerShell/Python evidence collectors for PCI DSS 4.0.1
pci-dss-evidence-assistant AI-powered PCI DSS documentation workflow
linux-server-onboarding-baseline Bash script to harden and baseline fresh Linux servers
email-authentication-audit-toolkit SPF, DKIM, DMARC audit + DNS validation scripts
Enterprise-Infrastructure-Architecture On-prem infrastructure playbooks — AD, Veeam, Puppet, DR
m365-intune-device-management-baseline Intune device hardening and compliance baseline
it-ops-control-center FastAPI + Prometheus/Grafana unified IT ops dashboard

🧰 Current Stack

Microsoft: M365 · Entra ID · Intune · Exchange Online · SharePoint · Defender · PowerShell
Linux: Ubuntu · Fedora CoreOS · Docker · Podman · NGINX Proxy Manager · Portainer
Monitoring: Prometheus · Grafana · Alertmanager · Wazuh · Node Exporter
Compliance: PCI DSS 4.0.1 · CIS Benchmarks · DKIM/DMARC/SPF
Cloud: Azure · OCI · Cloudflare
Virtualization: VMware ESXi · Hyper-V · Proxmox · vSphere


💼 Open To

  • Director of IT / Cloud Infrastructure / DevSecOps roles — remote or hybrid, Bay Area preferred
  • Upwork consulting — Microsoft 365, Linux infrastructure, PCI DSS compliance, security hardening

📬 suresh@echand.com · linkedin.com/in/sureshchand01

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  1. email-authentication-audit-toolkit email-authentication-audit-toolkit Public

    SPF, DKIM, and DMARC audit toolkit with AWS SES configuration guidance, DNS validation scripts, and email deliverability troubleshooting tools.

    PowerShell

  2. Enterprise-Infrastructure-Architecture Enterprise-Infrastructure-Architecture Public

    Enterprise-grade on-prem infrastructure architecture playbooks (AD, Veeam, Puppet, DR)

  3. it-ops-control-center it-ops-control-center Public

    FastAPI UI + Prometheus/Grafana to unify systems, security, and automation (SOC 2 friendly)

    Python

  4. m365-compliance-showcase m365-compliance-showcase Public

    Read-only M365 evidence exports & posture checks (NIST/CMMC) — demo module + CI

    PowerShell

  5. pci-dss-evidence-assistant pci-dss-evidence-assistant Public

    AI-powered, company-agnostic PCI DSS v4.0.1 documentation workflow (prompts + templates + tracker)

  6. Secure-Windows-Baseline-Framework Secure-Windows-Baseline-Framework Public

    PowerShell