Coaches Who Have Lived the Journey
Lavanyah Prabu founded LumaShift after years of watching the cybersecurity-career advice industry fail the practitioners it claimed to serve. Mukesh Vijaian joined her as co-founder after a decade building security in production.
Lavanyah Prabu
Lavanyah founded LumaShift after years of watching the cybersecurity-career advice industry fail the practitioners it claimed to serve — too much recruiter spin, too few coaches who'd actually held an alert on a screen at 3am.
She brings a blend of cybersecurity expertise and talent development experience built on GRC, policy, and risk management. Her coaching style is empathetic but results-driven: she understands the anxiety of career transitions and meets clients where they are — whether that's a fresh grad with a blank resume or a mid-career professional five years into the same role.
Lavanyah is particularly passionate about helping underrepresented groups — women, minorities, career switchers — find their footing in cybersecurity.
Areas of Expertise
- Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
- Policy and Risk Management
- Soft Skills & Interview Coaching
- Career Transition Strategy
- Personal Branding
Mukesh Vijaian
Mukesh is a cybersecurity practitioner and career coach with hands-on experience across Security Operations, Cloud Security, and Threat Intelligence. He has helped dozens of professionals across Malaysia break into and advance in the cybersecurity industry.
He joined Lavanyah at LumaShift after a decade building security in production across enterprise and multinational environments and seeing the same gap from inside: smart practitioners stuck without a coach who knew exactly what they were stuck on. The brief he writes against is simple — talent is everywhere, opportunity is not, and that gap is fixable.
He speaks directly, coaches practically, and focuses ruthlessly on outcomes: does your resume get you interviews? Does your interview get you offers? That's the only metric that matters.
Areas of Expertise
- Security Operations (SOC / Blue Team)
- Cloud Security (AWS, Azure)
- Threat Intelligence & Detection Engineering
- Cybersecurity Career Strategy
- Technical Interview Coaching