Jul 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Jun 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Remote

• Mentoring early-stage startups on product discovery, MVP development, product-market fit, GTM strategy, and scalable product development
• Leading startup due diligence including team evaluation, market sizing, tech feasibility, and risk assessment for investment readiness
• Supporting portfolio founders with business model refinement, growth strategy, and investor pitch storytelling
• Collaborating with the accelerator team to shape cohort structure, mentor-matchmaking, and strategic initiatives across India and MENA

Jun 2025 – Present · 1 yr · India · Remote

• Advising on product positioning, GTM strategy, and value proposition refinement for Verbly’s AI-powered customer support automation platform
• Guiding the team through market segmentation, competitive benchmarking, and roadmap prioritization to align with SME and mid-sized BPO needs
• Supporting investor readiness efforts including pitch deck refinement, business model validation, and strategic fundraising narratives
• Offering ongoing mentorship to the founding team on scaling SaaS products, driving adoption, and building defensible product differentiation

Dec 2022 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos · California, United States

• Defined the product vision and pioneered a new SaaS category by combining AI-driven analytics, simulation, and automation into a unified enterprise risk platform.
• Inventor and co-architect of two patents (one pending, one granted) covering real-time simulation and predictive vulnerability analytics, including U.S. Patent No. 11,979,426.
• Designed scalable SaaS infrastructure to support global enterprise growth, balancing multi-tenant complexity with platform performance, security, and cost-efficiency.
• Spearheaded the AI strategy and roadmap for integration of GenAI & LLM capabilities into the platform, powering contextual risk explanations, intelligent prioritization, and automated remediation workflows for enterprise users.
• Led implementation of a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architecture for real-time threat advisory, combining LLM-based summarization with enterprise vulnerability and asset telemetry to deliver tailored, on-demand risk insights.
• Led GTM strategy, pricing innovation, and analyst engagement (Gartner, Forrester, IDC), positioning the platform as a category-defining solution.
• Drove platform extensibility through strategic integrations with enterprise systems including vulnerability scanners, ITSM, CMDB, and cloud platforms.
• Partnered on roadmap investment decisions, product metrics, and positioning strategies that fueled ARR growth and customer retention.
• Co-owned product and engineering budgets; collaborated with executive leadership on VC communications, fundraising, and investor updates.
• Established customer feedback loops and product advisory councils, shaping roadmap priorities through direct enterprise input and usage analytics.
• Partnered cross-functionally with sales, marketing, and operations leadership to align product strategy with revenue, brand positioning, and customer success outcomes.

Feb 2020 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos · California, United States

• Second employee to join the founding team of Hive Pro with responsibilities of transforming business ideas into scalable and robust enterprise applications
• Pioneering the Threat Exposure Management space in Cyber Security by fusing stand alone technologies such as Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Prioritization, Breach & Attack Simulation, Threat Intelligence, etc.
• Built an ecosystem of technical, non-technical and support staff for product engineering and security by establishing the team of employees, vendors and consultants across US, Europe, Middle East, and India.
• Co-Heading the Product Engineering department of Hive Pro, an AI empowered Threat Exposure Management platform while leading and managing a team of 25+ scholars, researchers, engineers, analysts, designers, developers, and security professionals.
• Actively contributing to the company's strategic decisions while working on growth initiatives, R&D, marketing, and sales.
• Transforming business requirements into functional and non-functional and technical requirements for the implementation team.
• Conducted market research, UX & UI surveys, customer feedback interviews to ensure product strategy is in-line with market and customer needs.
• Launched a minimum viable product within 90 days of idea inception and gradually enhanced and optimized it for customer environments.
• Established the Threat & Vulnerability Intelligence program for collection, analysis, enrichment, and contextualization of intelligence data for consumption by Hive Pro customers.
• Designed and architected a next-generation Breach & Attack Simulation solution from scratch as a module of Hive Pro Uni5 to simulate various red and blue team scenarios and use the simulation results to enrich threat and risk contexts.

Jan 2019 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Dubai

• Leading and managing the Security Operations Center for the largest telecom service provider in Oman while performing the following activities:
• Ensure incident identification, assessment, quantification, reporting, communication, mitigation and monitoring
• Ensure compliance to SLA, process adherence and process improvisation to achieve operational objectives
• Revise and develop processes to strengthen the current Security Operations Framework, Review policies and highlight the challenges in managing SLAs
• Responsible for team & vendor management, overall use of resources and initiation of corrective action where required for Security Operations Center
• Management, administration & maintenance of security devices such as Logrhythm, Carbon Black, Tenable SC, Exabeam, TrapX and Osirium
• Perform threat management, threat modeling, identify threat vectors and develop use cases for security monitoring
• Responsible for integration of standard and non-standard logs in SIEM
• Creation of reports, dashboards, metrics for SOC operations and presentation to senior management
• Co-ordination with stakeholders while building and maintaining positive working relationships
• Handling vulnerability management program for the largest oil & gas company in Oman having 60000+ assets while conducting the following activities:
• Strategizing the vulnerability management program and providing recommendations for continual
• improvement and effective implementation
• Administration and management of Tenable Security Center including Nessus, PVS and LCE
• Rapid response to zero-day and other high priority threats of interest vulnerabilities, including
• identification of risk areas, quantifying exposure, and tracking remediation to completion
• Providing technical guidance on vulnerability remediation and secure system configuration,
• including assistance with false positive reports and no-fix vulnerabilities and risk acceptance
• documentation

Apr 2018 – Jan 2019 · 9 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Aug 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

•  Drafted the information security plan and business continuity plan and disaster
• recovery plan for the national identity program of an African country
•  Designed the security architecture for one of the largest public sector insurance
• company in India
•  Performed application and network vulnerability assessment and penetration testing
• for applications and infrastructure of several government and private sector clients
• including the national identity program of India, largest real estate company in
• middle east and largest digital wallet in Kuwait
•  Designed and implemented the process for User Access Management for the national
• identity program of India
•  Reviewed the process for biometric and demographic deduplication for the national
• identity program of India
•  Reviewed the threat intelligence posture and risk intelligence capability of the
• national identity program of India
•  Conducted several regulatory audits for the ecosystem partners of a government
• client from industries such as banking, telecom and state governments including a
• high profile audit for one of the largest telecom service provider in India which
• violated the security and privacy aspects of the authority by following unfair trade
• practices
•  Performed secure code review for 150+ applications developed in technologies such
• as Java, C#, Android, PHP, etc. and worked closely with the development team in
• closure of the identified vulnerabilities

Dec 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 mo · Jamshedpur

• Undergo a 21 days winter internship and completed the project "IT Infra management" in the Information Technology Services Department of TRF Ltd.

Sep 2014 – Oct 2014 · 1 mo

• I managed the program with proper arrangement of the course. Helped the trainer in evaluating the test papers of the students and reviewed their projects.