Nov 2021 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Versata provides enterprise software solutions that deliver business results, performance and scalability while dramatically reducing IT spending. Versata's patented solutions decrease IT expenditures by reducing hardware and associated maintenance, leveraging open source technology, and accelerating value delivery to business customers.

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Remote

• Managed a portfolio of 20+ enterprise products (SaaS and On-prem), steering engineering and product teams to generate over $50M in annual revenue.
• Enhanced system uptime for Top 5 SaaS products from <98% to 99.9% through root-cause analysis(RCA) and the implementation of permanent fixes and automated recovery.
• Led Cost Optimization and overachieved cost-savings targets by 70% without causing any outage. Cut costs by as much as 70% for some SaaS products through architectural changes, data cleanup, and migration from self-hosted to AWS managed services.
• Modernized tech stacks including AWS Aurora, RDS major version upgrades, EKS cluster version upgrades, preventing AWS extended support costs.
• Created an LLM-powered AI assistant using Langchain and a retrieval-augmented (RAG) approach to leverage the power of LLMs along with company internal data from a variety of sources including Jira, Confluence, Zendesk, Google Docs and GitHub in order to improve developer productivity, reduce incident response time and MTTR.
• Boosted engineering velocity by transitioning to a weekly release cycle and enabling continuous delivery for 7 key products.
• Developed a tool for automated identification and removal of code anti-patterns across 1000+ repositories, promoting a culture of clean code.
• Standardized development environments, modernized CI/CD pipelines, and implemented automated quality checks and security scans for multiple enterprise products.
• Fostered a culture of continuous learning and improvement through hiring and mentorship programs.
• Led the engineering and customer success aspects of acquisitions of multiple Enterprise SaaS products, while reducing decision-making time from weeks to just 3 days.
• Integrated acquired products to meet company quality standards, automating key processes to expedite integration timelines.
• Selected as the first member of the Internal SWAT Elite Coder Team, tasked with solving the company's hardest technical challenges.

Feb 2017 – Feb 2021 · 4 yrs · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• 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
• FireCompass is a SaaS platform for Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) & Attack Surface Management (ASM). FireCompass continuously indexes and monitors the deep, dark & surface web using nation-state grade reconnaissance techniques. The platform automatically discovers an organization's digital attack surface and launches multi-stage attacks, mimicking a real attacker, to help identify attack paths that are otherwise missed by conventional tools. It combines Attack Surface Management and multiple security testing technologies, eliminating the need for multiple tools and significant manual effort.
• Some of the use cases include:
• Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART)
• Attack Surface Management (ASM)
• SOC & Security Control Effectiveness Testing
• Digital Footprint & Shadow IT Discovery
• Ransomware Risk Assessment
• Supply Chain Risk Assessment
• M&A Risk Assessment

Feb 2017 – Feb 2021 · 4 yrs · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• 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/

Nov 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Dulles, Virginia, United States

• 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.

Feb 2004 – Oct 2014 · 10 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

• 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
• Dubbed by Darknet UK, as the “Salesforce of penetration testing” is a pioneer in offering "network penetration testing" and subsequently "application security testing" over the cloud using SaaS model. IDC, the leading technology analyst firm, mentions “iViZ is a stellar example of emerging technology companies”. iViZ has helped 500+ customers worldwide including several marquee names like 2 of the top 3 telecommunications companies, 2 of the top 5 IT Service Providers, and 2 of the Top 10 banks. IViZ got acquired by Cigital Inc. in 2014 and subsequently Cigital got acquired by Synopsys Inc. in 2016.

May 2002 – Jun 2003 · 1 yr 1 mo

May 2001 – Jun 2001 · 1 mo