Amol Naik — CEO
Amol has been working in the Information Security field for over 20 years concentrating on a wide range of areas including offensive security and development & transformation of Cybersecurity program. He has extensive experience in building world class information security teams, product security engineering, devsecops, information/cybersecurity security frameworks, system and network security, risk, compliance, web/mobile/network penetration testing, vulnerability management, and cloud security. Joining Unacademy in 2020, he developed a new Information Security program from the ground up and built & developed a world class information security organisation. Working across the business functions, the Information security program included areas such as development of security policies, new security business processes embedded across business units, development of annual cybersecurity roadmaps, and successful execution of numerous security projects, adherence to audit and due diligence, architecturing security requirements into products and services, and development and execution of an overall information security strategy. Before joining Unacademy, Amol worked at GOJEK as Head of Information Security building security team and programs from the ground up. His experience for GOJEK included building product security and devsecops teams which helped secure GOJEK’s cloud infrastructure and web/mobile applications. Amol also worked at Flipkart, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India Pvt Ltd, Persistent Systems, MIEL e-Security Pvt. Ltd in the past as information security consultant focusing on building information security teams and consulting with customers to secure their organisations. Career Highlights: - Security Research: https://www.exploit-db.com/search?e_author=Amol%2Bnaik - Bug Bounty: Google, Facebook, PayPal, Nokia - 0-day research in Browsers: https://amolnaik4.blogspot.com/p/advisories.html - First Real-world self-xss: https://amolnaik4.blogspot.com/2011/03/exploitation-of-self-only-cross-site.html - GOJEK ProdSec journey: https://blog.gojek.io/how-to-secure-a-superapp/ - Bodhi: https://github.com/amolnaik4/bodhi - Nullcon Review Panel: https://nullcon.net/review-panel/amol-naik
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with extensive experience in building security programs and teams across various industries.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 21 yrs 11 mos
Skills
- Enterprise Security
- Devsecops
- Cloud Security
- Security Automation
- Risk Management
- Cybersecurity
Career Highlights
- Over 20 years in Information Security.
- Developed world-class security programs at Unacademy.
- Led security initiatives at GOJEK and Flipkart.
Work Experience
HugoHub
Security @ HugoHub (1 yr 3 mos)
mPokket
Virtual CISO (4 mos)
Career Break
Career transition (2 yrs 1 mo)
Unacademy
Chief Information Security Officer (2 yrs 9 mos)
Gojek Tech
Head Of Information Security (2 yrs 2 mos)
Vulnerability Researcher (1 yr 9 mos)
Self
Vulnerability Researcher (3 mos)
Flipkart
Security Analyst III (1 yr 6 mos)
Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India
Web Application Pentester (2 yrs 2 mos)
Persistent Systems
Team Lead - Security Practice (1 yr 5 mos)
Module Lead - Security Practice (6 mos)
MIEL e-Security Pvt. Ltd.
Technical Consultant - Information Security (2 yrs 6 mos)
Infosys Technologies Ltd
Analyst (3 mos)
Reliance Communications
Network Security Engineer (1 yr)
Trident Infotech Services
Sr. Executive - Technical Support (1 yr)
Celetronix
Engineer (2 yrs 5 mos)
Education
BE at North Maharashtra University
Diploma at Government Polytechnic, Amravati
