Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

• Swathi serves on the Board of Directors of Fownd AI, a healthcare technology company building purpose-built AI for physical therapy. In this role, she advises on strategic growth, operational scale, and the responsible use of technology as the company expands AI-powered clinical workflows designed to reduce documentation burden, improve compliance, and give clinicians more time to focus on patient care. Drawing on her experience leading large-scale security and engineering organizations, she brings perspective on trust, governance, resilience, and building systems that can scale in complex, high-stakes environments.

Aug 2021 – Nov 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Swathi joined Oracle to strengthen and modernize its SaaS Cloud Security program, which needed a clearer strategy and tighter alignment with the business. She brought together global teams under a unified DevSecOps vision, shifting from compliance-driven operations to risk-based security built into every product. She launched the CIRA detection platform, giving Oracle real-time visibility into 37PB of data each month, and created a white-glove response service that protects over $550M in annual customer revenue. As Her team grew and showed impact Oracle’s security program evolved into a trusted differentiator across its cloud ecosystem.

Oct 2019 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

• After building Netflix’s crisis management and response framework, Swathi was promoted to lead the company’s newly formed Detection and Response organization. In this expanded role, she scaled the program and launched global detection pipelines that reduced incident response times by more than 80%. She established a studio-focused security response function to safeguard high-value production assets and guided the creation of two open-source tools—Dispatch and RiskQuant—that became industry benchmarks for automation and risk quantification. Her leadership transformed Netflix from a reactive to a proactive detection and response model, strengthening resilience across its global content and streaming ecosystem.

Aug 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Swathi joined Netflix to design and operationalize the company’s first dedicated incident response and crisis management program. The environment was fast-paced and loosely structured, requiring a blend of technical depth, diplomacy, and execution to align global teams around a shared response strategy. She built the foundation for Netflix’s crisis playbooks, severity frameworks, and response tooling, ensuring consistent communication and rapid resolution during high-impact events. Her work bridged technical, legal, and communications functions, establishing the structure and trust that paved the way for the creation of Netflix’s Detection and Response organization, which she would later go on to lead.

Jan 2017 – Aug 2017 · 7 mos

• Promoted to lead the firm’s most critical customer engagements across its top 25 enterprise clients. Swathi managed multimillion-dollar breach responses, including support for several of the decade’s most publicized incidents. She became known internally stabilizing at-risk $50M+ accounts through technical clarity, structured communication, and executive trust-building. Under her leadership, client retention and renewal rates increased significantly, and response cycles for high-severity incidents were cut from days to hours through disciplined coordination and post-incident improvement programs.

Oct 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Joined Mandiant to deliver advanced threat intelligence and incident response for global enterprise clients. She guided some of the company’s largest and most sensitive investigations, working directly with CISOs and boards during major breach events. Swathi helped establish repeatable frameworks for technical response and client communication, reducing uncertainty during crises and shortening investigation timelines by up to 50%. Her ability to calm executive stakeholders and deliver tangible business outcomes led to rapid advancement into the company’s escalations leadership team.

Jun 2012 – Oct 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Swathi joined Gartner to strengthen the company’s global information security posture and lead key programs in identity management, application security, and client assurance. She guided a cross-functional team focused on improving governance and risk alignment between technology and the business. By partnering closely with auditors, compliance officers, and product leaders, she helped build a scalable framework for secure client delivery and regulatory readiness. This role marked a pivotal shift from hands-on engineering to organizational leadership, shaping her ability to communicate complex risks in business terms and influence decision-making across diverse stakeholders.

May 2010 – Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Swathi joined Abt Global to build the organization’s first formal information security program. Working in a mission-driven environment with limited resources, she developed core functions including vulnerability management, risk assessments, investigations, antivirus, and SIEM monitoring. She introduced structured policies and reporting that helped the company meet U.S. government and international compliance standards for health and development projects. Along the way, she learned how to translate technical risk into business language and earned buy-in from leadership teams that were new to the concept of enterprise security. The success of her work established the foundation for Abt’s long-term security operations and sparked her passion for building programs from the ground up.

Jul 2007 – Aug 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Swathi began her career at Infosys, developing web applications for Apple as part of a global engineering team. The role gave her early exposure to enterprise-scale systems, agile development, and cross-functional collaboration. While deepening her technical foundation in software engineering, she became increasingly curious about how systems could be secured as well as built. That curiosity ultimately led her to pursue a master’s degree in Information Security and Assurance and set the direction for her cybersecurity career.