Jan 2024 – Mar 2024 · 2 mos · Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Winner of NIDHI EIR Cohort 5 at IIM Calcutta and building Hornet.

Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · Kolkata, West Bengal, India · On-site

• In my capacity as the founder, I’ve been involved in every facet of the company’s growth, from technology development and product design to strategic partnerships and funding acquisition. Under my leadership, Hornet has rapidly grown into a trusted partner for government and law enforcement bodies across India and beyond.
• Led a team to develop a cutting-edge Cryptocurrency and Darkweb Forensics Platform, winning prestigious awards and grants.
• Represented the company at international tech conferences (TiECon at Santa Clara, RSA Conf at San Francisco, etc), showcasing innovative solutions in cybersecurity.
• Successfully raised pre-seed funding from Pontaq VC and secured grants from DST, GoI, and Lt. Governor of Delhi.
• Successfully raised $500K in seed round from Artha Ventures

May 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Imperva acquired Cloud Vector and the team behind it for the successful exit which includes me.
• Responsible for successful integration with Imperva WAF
• Create microservice for extracting information from payloads of API calls to be further used to discovering endpoints.
• Automated the process of generating code coverage report of all the microservices.
• Created mechanism to auto detect SSL certificate rotation by kuberenetes cert manager.
• Created microservice for summarising information related to authentication in APIs to reduce further payload size over the wire.

Nov 2020 – Apr 2021 · 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Got acquired by Imperva in early 2021
• Cloud Vector was the pioneer in the field of API security.
• Early team member responsible for building and maintaining several microservices written in Golang.
• Built caching layer to be used by all services improving the latency by > 70%

May 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Building APIs in REST and gRPC in Golang.
• Custom analytics of different health metrics and monthly reporting automation
• Maintaining the infrastructure, writing scripts and building tools. Handling database in MySQL and Scylla.

Jul 2018 – Apr 2019 · 9 mos

Oct 2017 – Jul 2018 · 9 mos

• Co-developed the backend from the scratch while learning Golang.

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos

• After scoring 87% (top 2 percentile pan India) in an NPTEL exam on Modern Application Development, got a chance to intern as a product developer at Hasura (www.hasura.io). Here I have developed a complete web-app named “hisab-kitab” which is an expense journal application.
• Source code of the app is freely available at - https://github.com/souvikhaldar/Hisab-Kitab
• Complete Documentation- https://medium.com/@souvikhaldar32/hisab-kitab-save-to-earn-c978344e5744

Feb 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos