Jun 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 9 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Jun 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Update: In June 2018, Mobiport is acquired by an HCM player, Auzmor Inc.
• Mobiport is a self-serve, zero-code developer platform to create apps for conversational platforms like Google Assistant, Alexa, Cortana and Messenger.
• Responsible for Product Management, Partnerships, Team building, fundraising, M&A.

Apr 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• An Entrepreneur In-House and part of Senior management team responsible for Product, Technology, Growth and Business. Led cross functional teams through two successful product cycles. Wegilant's flagship product, Appvigil.
• Responsible for defining Appvigil's product strategy, prioritizing features, product releases, creating and maintaining product roadmap which included goals and initiatives, analysing competitors, market research, representing customer, aligning cross functional teams with Wegilant's overall goals and fundraising.
• Product : Appvigil is a SAAS based mobile application protection suite, which scans a mobile application for security vulnerabilities. Appvigil competes with mobile security solutions of HP Fortify, IBM Appscan and Veracode
• +Improved Appvigil to be enterprise ready with SDLC integrations and compliance support
• +Executed most of the features like compliance support, IOS app analysis, API testing and Privacy analysis from concept to launch
• +Identified and implemented technology integrations with AV, MDM, MAM and CASB
• +Launched Hacklytics: Attack monitoring SDK for mobile apps. Reports repackaged, reverse engineered and sniffed running instances.
• +Speaker in security webinars, product meetups and panel discussions conducted by NASSCOM, DSCI and NPC
• +Demonstrated product capability and market fit to multiple VCs in India and US

Sep 2013 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked with Development, Research and Product Management teams to improve WAF offering.
• Developer
• Improved WAF SQLi defenses
• Contributed to multiple patents in Session Security and XSS
• Owner of XSS and Cookies defences
• Researcher
• Conceptualised first of its kind protection for DOM based XSS in a WAF deployment
• Researched Fingerprinting
• Authored documents such as "Netscaler Application Firewall and OWASP Top 10 2013"
• Created attack vector signatures for just discovered issues
• Product Management
• Competitive Analysis
• Market Research
• User Persona
• Potential Technology Integrations and Partnerships
• Customer Research
• Plan to taking WAF to APAC market.
• Identified new business and technology opportunities that WAF can get into
• Following are the companies and their products that I analysed from Business, Technology and Product perspective
• 1)Imperva's SecureSphere
• 2)F5's BIG IP ASM
• 3)Barracuda's WAF
• 4)NSFocus's WAF
• 5)PentaSecurity
• 6)Indusface
• 7)Akamai's WAF
• 8)AdNovum Informatik AG
• 9)BeeWare
• 10)DBAPPSecurity
• 11)Deny All
• 12)Fortinet
• 13)Radware
• For a quick geo footprint of the above list, please visit http://bit.ly/1M6KjCk

Jul 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developer in Citrix Application Firewall team.
• Citrix® NetScaler AppFirewall™ is a comprehensive ICSA certified web application security solution that blocks known and unknown attacks against web and web services applications. NetScaler AppFirewall enforces a hybrid security model that permits only correct application behavior and efficiently scans and protects known application vulnerabilities. It analyzes all bi-directional traffic, including SSL-encrypted communication, to protect against a broad range of security threats without any modification to applications.
• Improved Netscaler WAF to stop XSS and SQLi injections as per OWASP standards.
• GoTo person for web security research in XSS, SQLi, CSRF
• Stack : FreeBSD Kernel, C, Ruby, Java