Aatish M.

Co-Founder

Seattle, Washington, United States16 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founded a data security startup backed by venture capital.
Designed secure payment systems for Amazon handling billions of transactions.
Expert in data compliance regulations like PCI and GDPR.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on data security and compliance.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data SecuritySaasCloud ComputingPayment SystemsApi ManagementWeb Development

Other Skills

Data DiscoveryData Security Posture ManagementData Loss PreventionRegulations ComplianceAWSPayments SecuritySystem DesignAPI DevelopmentPayments PlatformWeb ServicesJavaScriptJavaSoftware DevelopmentAlgorithmsDistributed Systems

About

As the Founder of Strac, a venture capital backed startup, I am on a mission to protect data in customers SaaS, Cloud, Gen AI apps and endpoints devices. Why? To avoid data leaks/insider risks and comply with regulations/privacy laws. How? We discover, classify and remediate sensitive data (PII, PCI, PHI, Any Confidential data) across SaaS, Cloud, Gen AI appa and Endpoint devices. See all our integrations here: https://strac.io/integrations Before founding Strac, I spent 11 years at Amazon, where I designed and built their payments secure zone on AWS, which stored and managed billions of cards and bank accounts and connected with hundreds of payment partners. I am passionate about creating value for customers, innovating with technology, and solving challenging data security & compliance issues.

Experience

Strac

Founder & CEO

Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos · United States

What?
We protect businesses discover, classify and remediate sensitive data & comply with regulations/privacy laws like PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA and other regulations/privacy laws by securing any data across all communication channels (SaaS, AI, Browsers, Endpoints and Cloud apps)
How?
Strac is a modern Data Discovery, Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for AI, SaaS, Browsers and Cloud.
It automatically discovers, classifies and remediates sensitive data (PII, PCI, PHI, Any Confidential data, Source Code, IP) across
Email (Gmail, Office 365, Yahoo, etc.),
Slack/MS Teams,
Customer Support Tools (Zendesk, Intercom, Salesforce, Kustomer),
Collaboration Tools (Jira, Confluence, Notion)
Cloud Storage (OneDrive, Google Drive, Sharepoint, Box, Dropbox),
Gen AI (ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude) and even on
Cloud (AWS, Azure, i.e. S3, SQL DB, RDS, Redshift, DDB, Blob Storage)
See all our integrations here: https://strac.io/integrations
Who uses Strac?
Strac is used by enterprises like UiPath, Convera (formerly Western Union Business Solutions), Rho, B Capital, Rightway Healthcare and many more.

Data DiscoveryData Security Posture ManagementData Loss PreventionRegulations ComplianceData SecuritySaaS

Amazon

3 roles

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Designed and built Payment Secure Zone on AWS that stored and managed billions of cards/bank account numbers and connected with hundreds of payment partners.

AWSPayments SecuritySystem DesignCloud ComputingPayment Systems

Sr. Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2015 – Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Designed and built PayStation API. PayStation was a radical simplification of Amazon’s Payments Platform that existed for 15+ years. PayStation powered all payment apis - management of payment methods and processing APIs (charge, refund, authentication, etc.) and more!

API DevelopmentPayments PlatformAPI ManagementPayment Systems

Software Development Engineer

Mar 2010 – Feb 2015 · 4 yrs 11 mos

2012 - 2015
One of the key members of Payments Portal team. Designed and implemented Payment widgets (supporting Javascript and Non-Javascript) embedded by numerous Amazon businesses for our customers.
2010-2012
Worked in Payments Platform, contributed to design and implementation of high-volume distributed web services for secure processing, storing and retrieving payment instrument information.
Designed and implemented multiple features pertaining to customer's payment instruments in their wallet
Designed and implemented a system that targets ads to customers

Web ServicesJavaScriptWeb DevelopmentPayment Systems