Sep 2023 – Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Researching new directions and product offerings in cybersecurity, vulnerability management and privacy compliance with emphasis on recent developments in generative AI and large language models.
• Our work includes:
• 1. Ingesting security logs and answering meaningful queries with the help of language models.
• 2. Creating privacy and security policy documents/contracts/guidelines with the help of generative AI. Generative AI can help in ingesting and summarizing privacy rules and laws in diverse regions/jurisdictions.
• 3. Using Gen-AI to generate scenarios for attacks and pen-tests.

Jan 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Multiple

• Aleph9 is a privately funded venture focused on technology and cybersecurity research, algorithmic and strategic opportunities in the financial markets with emphasis on volatility trends, geopolitical stresses, and on disruptive technologies.
• As its CTO, my team was involved in researching and evaluating major new directions in cybersecurity, IoT security, blockchain enabled businesses, mobile platforms, storage technologies and privacy regulations.
• This research was utilized by private-equity and VC firms for their investment decisions.

Jun 2018 – Nov 2022 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• ATPCO provides core platforms and technologies to the global airline industry. It manages more than 90% of all airline fares and sales data worldwide.
• Responsibilities of my team involved managing the privacy and security of very large data sets containing private and financial information, in applications, systems and platforms. Managing security in the cloud and on-premise.
• Major contributor to business agility and new product rollouts.
• Zero security breaches in last 5 years.
• Compliance with global privacy regulations across regions and jurisdictions.
• Enabling the transformation of a traditional on-premise/data-center organization to be cloud-enabled and cloud-based.
• Interfacing with airlines and vendors across the globe for security and privacy of mission-critical data.

Oct 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• hCentive, Inc. (www.hcentive.com) provides platforms, and cloud-based healthcare technology solutions that power multiple state, federal and private health exchanges containing data for millions of lives. It was later acquired by Optum to be part of Optum's portfolio.
• My teams were responsible for the security and compliance for the firm’s hosted platforms, products and its corporate infrastructure. We also managed the strategic and operational aspects of our IT infrastructure, product roll-out and deployment, DevOps and quality assurance platforms.
• Major accomplishments include:
• Launch of hCentive’s SaaS platform and its operations
• Helping the firm earn and maintain PCI/DSS, SOC1/SOC2, ISO-27001, HIPAA/HITRUST certifications
• Establishing and running in-house NOC and SOC groups
• Saving $2MM annually by optimizing cloud resource utilization
• Exceptional security operation resulting in zero security breaches
• Hiring and mentoring multiple Director-level executives
• A full overhaul of the corporate IT function resulting in the highest user satisfaction in firm’s history and a lean, documented, fully monitored cloud-based infrastructure.

Apr 2014 – Oct 2014 · 6 mos · Orange County, California, United States

• Finance 500 provides equity and fixed income products and services to both large institutions and individual investors, and its investment banking division consults corporations on cash flow and capital needs. Additionally, the firm offers a full range of investment products to retail clients in all 50 states and abroad.
• As their head of IT, I was responsible for system and network reliability, enterprise IT and security, and employee productivity.

Aug 2013 – Apr 2014 · 8 mos · Foster City, CA

• Corporate IT, Engineering and Research, Business Development.

Jan 2010 – Jul 2013 · 3 yrs 6 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Trading Infrastructure (US and India), Monitoring and NOC Software, Unix and Network Engineering, Systems Engineering/Tools/Integration.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 · 4 yrs · Vienna, VA

• Global Infrastructure, IT Strategy, Information Security and Processes, Data Centers, Global NOC, Web Services.

Oct 2004 – Oct 2005 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• IT Management, Systems Engineering, Policies and Processes.

Dec 1999 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• IT Management, Systems Engineering, Systems Administration, Network Engineering, Data Centers.

Feb 1998 – Dec 1999 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Systems/Software Engineering, Telecommunciations Software.