Anirudh Anand — CTO

Been with CRED since the early days, I was one of the founding members of CRED's Security Team, and have been leading the Product Security team for the past 5+ years. Under my leadership, the team has grown to over 20+ members, and we have built one of the best Product Security teams in India. Starting with Product Security, today we have expanded the team to cover several different security verticals like DevSecOps, Security Engineering, Mobile Security and Vulnerability Management. I am an Engineer by heart with a passion for understanding complex microservice architectures, diving deep into their attack surface, uncovering architectural flaws and Vulnerabilities. This has helped me in designing robust security roadmaps and driving them across the organisation both from a Product Security & Engineering as well as a leadership standpoint. I bring my team together to build AOP (Annual Operating Plan) & OKR's (Objectives and Key Results) to ensure security is clearly thought through, objectives are well defined and organisation/team members has full clarity and visibility into the function. I am also a strong believer of scalability through automation particularly in relation to the identification and mitigation of security vulnerabilities & risks ingrained within engineering workflows through DevSecOps and CI/CD. I am passionate about building and conducting security trainings, and I have partnered with 7ASecurity to create a variety of courses including: 1. Attacking Modern Web Apps: Mastering the future of Attack vectors 2. Hacking Android, iOS and iOT apps by example Few more courses are in progress and will be released in the coming months. I was invited to present the above courses in several international conferences: 1. Nullcon Berlin 2023: https://t.ly/bf8IN 3. Troopers Germany 2022: https://t.ly/uO0-d 4. 44con London 2022: https://t.ly/r6MMw 5. DeepSec Vienna 2022: https://deepsec.net/archive/2022.deepsec.net/speaker.html#WSLOT560 6. Hackfest Canada 2021: https://t.ly/wX13Q 7. OWASP Global Appsec NZ, Appsec US, Appsec EU (2023, 2022, 2021) Prior to joining CRED, I was working as a Senior Security Engineer at Flipkart and prior to that, I was one of the founding members of the the Web Security team at Team bi0s, a CTF team from Amrita University. I had the privilege of spearheading team expansion, recruitment, and training efforts, leading to its remarkable success over the past 11 years. According to CTFtime rankings (https://ctftime.org/stats/2023/IN), the team has consistently held the top position (rank #1) among CTF teams in India.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Security Leader in the SaaS industry with expertise in vulnerability management and security automation.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 9 yrs 6 mos