Problem Solving

B.Tech (Hons)

- Delivered multiple talks, workshops, trainings for conferences organized by CISO Platform including SACON and CISO Top 100.
- Volunteered and participated in multiple community-led initiatives to create best practice checklists, frameworks and playbooks mainly for CISOs
- Built a Cyber Security product listing, reviews, and comparison platform: https://products.cisoplatform.com/

Advisor

Post acquisition of iViZ Security by Cigital Inc, I was responsible for technology, operations and financial integration of iViZ Security with Cigital Inc.
- Integrated iViZ Products with Cigital Service delivery processes and offerings
- Migrated production stack from Dimension Data Cloud to AWS
- Worked with Product Management team to roll out new enterprise features like SAML SSO, replacing the SaaS product frontend in Angular with new Cigital Logo and brand guidelines
- Scaled engineering, delivery and finance team size from 55 to 120+
- Scaled Operations and delivered 5X revenue growth in 2 years 
- Hired senior leadership team to manage operations, delivery and engineering
- Integrated financial reporting from Tally to Microsoft Dynamics
- Managed due-diligence of India operations during acquisition of Cigital Inc. by Synopsys Inc.

Principal Architect

- Founded iViZ Security- a pioneer in taking "Network Penetration Testing" and subsequently "Application Security Testing" to the cloud using the SaaS model.
- Raised VC funding from IDG Ventures
- Hired and built engineering and delivery teams from scratch to 50+
- Led engineering team to build one of the earliest On-Demand Cloud-based Penetration Testing product (https://cedar.cigital.com) which was eventually acquired by Cigital and then eventually by Synopsys and rebranded as Synopsys On-demand Penetration Testing Portal.
- Led research team to find multiple vulnerabilities in security products including Microsoft Bitlocker, McAffee Safeboot, Lenovo and HP BIOS, Various Anti-virus software, and so on. Also published multiple patents.
- Managed M&A due diligence, pre and post-closing items related to iViZ acquisition to Cigital Inc- the largest application security services company


About iViZ Security
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Dubbed by Darknet UK, as the “Salesforce of penet

Co-founder & CTO

Research Consultant

Student Intern

<p class="leading-6">- Co-founded, conceptualized and built Firecompass, a SaaS Product for IT Attack Surface Enumeration and Management leveraging GCP Bigdata technologies to index 60TB+ data points collected via various OSINT techniques and from various threat intel sources.
- Built Continuous Automated Red Teaming and Risk assessment engine which includes a distributed internet-wide scanning engine capable of scanning 4 billion+ hosts on the internet on a regular basis and uses an innovative choreography-based scanning technique (patent applied).
- Hired engineering, research, and customer success teams from scratch to 40+
- Raised pre-series A funding from Bharat Innovation Fund
- Led product, customer success, and delivery teams to scale Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) from zero to $500k+

About Firecompass
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FireCompass is a SaaS platform for Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) &amp; Attack Surface Management (ASM). FireCompass continuously indexes and monitors the deep, dark &amp; sur</p>

Co-Founder & CTO

- Handled a portfolio of 20+ enterprise products (both SaaS and On-prem) delivering more than $50mil in revenues - driving engineering decisions and working with product teams to deliver new features and defect fixes, improve uptime, and optimize cost.
- Improved Engineering velocity by moving products to a weekly release cycle (ship every 7 days) and 7 products to continuous delivery (ship on every code merge).
- Reduced MTTR and improved uptime for 5 SaaS products from below 98% to 99.9% by deep-diving into outage root causes and implementing permanent fixes, monitoring, and automated recovery.
- Achieved 70%+ cost reduction on two SaaS products by implementing architecture and Infrastructure changes, data cleanup, and migrating the legacy stack to the AWS Platform and technologies.
- Led the Engineering and Customer success aspects of Acquisitions - pre and post-Close including technology Due-diligence on various companies as part of M&A from a wide range of domains including Teleco

SVP of Software Engineering and Operations

Hands-on Technology leader | AI-First | SaaS | Cost Optimization | Cyber Security | Startups | IIT Kharagpur

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