Harsha K — Director of Engineering

Technology leader with an expertise in building large scale distributed systems catering to global customers. Have successfully designed, developed and implemented projects in different functional domains like Security, eCommerce, CRM, Storage and Payments. Actively contributing to writing and reviewing proposals (technical, collaborative engagements, and strategic) for long term directional and operational planning. - Expertise in developing security software development. Have managed teams in the area of API Security, Oauth, IAM, 2FA FIDO. - Expertise in EdgeAI using Apple MLX. Good understanding of transformers. - Expertise in fine tuning LLMs and building of transformer based models. - Expertise in building GenAI solutions. - Expertise in building domain specific models for security and privacy usecases. - Expertise in Data Privacy and Data Governance. PII/PCI Compliance at scale. - Good understanding of cryptography (PKCS11, HSM) - Sansec, Safenet, Fortanix - Expertise in DLP (Data Loss Prevention) at scale. - Expertise in Confidential Computing. - Expertise in building Privacy as API. - Expertise in building GenAI solutions in the field of security and privacy. - Expertise in pytorch, wandb, torch serve. - Working experience in building BerT based models for security usecases. - Expertise in building and delivering large scale distributed applications. - Expertise in building organized high-performance teams and mentoring top tier talent. - Expertise in building platform security at scale. Owned and transformed legacy stacks. - Expertise in building highly Scalable RISK systems for financial systems. - Passionate about problem solving and innovation, with a track record of filing 12 patents. - Expertise in setting up teams/projects from ground level. - Expertise in setting large teams and organizations from 0 to 1. - Expertise in building self-organized teams. - Expertise in managing the pulse of teams, managed and improved engagement surveys of teams of size 30.

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

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 18 yrs 4 mos

Skills

Cloud Security
Genai
Privacy Engineering
Financial Risk Management
Ai/ml
Cybersecurity
Security
Confidential Computing
Distributed Systems

Career Highlights

Scaled engineering team from 8 to 30+ members.
Led cloud migration for high-throughput data pipeline.
Filed 12 patents in security and privacy engineering.

Work Experience

Amadeus

Senior Engineering Manager (3 yrs)

Paytm

Director of Engineering (7 mos)

PayPal

Senior Engineering Manager (2 yrs 2 mos)

Autodesk

Software Development Manager II (1 yr)

Intel Corporation

Software Engineering Manager and Software Architect (2 yrs 7 mos)

NetApp

Member of Technical Staff 3 (2 yrs)

Stratify

Software Designer II (3 yrs)

Oracle

Software Engineer (4 yrs)

Education

BE - Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University

Advance management in Strategy at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Harsha K

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Scaled engineering team from 8 to 30+ members.
Led cloud migration for high-throughput data pipeline.
Filed 12 patents in security and privacy engineering.

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

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud SecurityGenaiPrivacy EngineeringFinancial Risk ManagementAi/mlCybersecuritySecurityConfidential ComputingDistributed Systems

Other Skills

AWS CloudFormationAWS Elastic BeanstalkAWS LambdaAdvanced Debugging - WinDBGAgile MethodologiesAmazon DynamodbAmazon S3AndroidApache FlinkApache KafkaAzure DatabricksBIOS SecurityBack-End Web DevelopmentBig DataBootguard

About

Experience

18 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs

Current Experience

Amadeus

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Joined the Travel Records Management team at 8 members and scaled it to 30+ engineers, expanding the portfolio to multiple data products and establishing a new Bangalore team/organization guided by Conway’s Law.
Mentored and groomed two lead engineers into engineering managers, creating a strong succession plan for sustainable leadership and project management.
Led the cloud migration of a high-throughput data pipeline processing over 2.5 million travel records daily with peak traffic of 80k TPS.
Lead the Storage-as-a-Service product from scratch using Java and MongoDB, ensuring full compliance with data security and regulatory requirements.
Architected and delivered a Big Data platform on Azure Databricks to support diverse analytics use cases across the business.
Developed GenAI-powered solutions for PII/PCI tokenization, fraud detection, and compliance automation, significantly improving detection accuracy and regulatory alignment.
Spearheaded the creation of an On-Demand Concealment product to meet GDPR’s “right to be forgotten” requirements.
Led multiple system stability and resilience initiatives, enhancing uptime and operational robustness.
Achieved cost savings by looking at the finOps.
Managed a team budget for 25+ engineers including Managers/Principle Engineers/Business Analysts.
Improved employee engagement scores over period of two years.

Azure DatabricksMongoDBJavaGenAICloud SecurityPrivacy Engineering+2

Paytm

Director of Engineering

Nov 2022 – Jun 2023 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Started with building a team around RISK/Privacy Engineering.
Responsible for managing managers and principal engineers responsible for building new generation RISK engineers making use of Rules + AI/ML for RISK detection. AWS Sage maker.
Security, User Identity, Application Identity, RISK Management. Cryptography, Key Management Systems.

Financial Risk ManagementAI/MLCassandraJavaApache KafkaApache Flink+2

Paypal

Senior Engineering Manager

Aug 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Built and mentored teams in Bangalore and SJC for PayPal's Key Management System, KeyMaker.
Made several releases around security for Application and User Identity space.
Was responsible for managing Manager/Principal Engineers.
Helped establish RISK Debitcard team in Bangalore, and expanded the portfolio to include other products on the loyalty management as well.
Rearchitected the Key Management System to remove dependencies, following zero trust principles.
Introduced a new root of trust component for disaster recovery.
Managed multiple initiatives involving AI/ML, BigQuery, Looker, and Java.
Got two patents approved in the area of privacy engineering and security

Big DataCybersecurityJavaSecurityDistributed SystemsPatent+3

Autodesk

Software Development Manager II

Oct 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr · Singapore

Led the Autodesk Singapore team in hiring and growing, fostering innovation, and implementing agile best practices.
Filed patents in the area of secure subscription and fraud detection software development.
Ensured a dedicated PO managed the complete backlog for efficient project management.

Web ServicesCybersecurityC++Distributed SystemsJavaCloud Security+1

Intel corporation

Software Engineering Manager and Software Architect

Feb 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Joined as a lead engineer, soon was given an opportunity to setup a team and take up the role of engineering manager.
Continued the manager role with a mixture of architect role.
Was the first few engineers to explore Intel SGX and build security softwares during the inception of SGX (Confidential Computing)
Led architecture and engineering teams to develop security software integrated with PayPal and BoFA.
Managed 3 products and teams, contributing to FIDO Certification and open-source tool development.
Delivered the Intel Online Connect on more than 50 million devices. Including Lenovo Yoga, Dell, HP.
Delivered many fixes in making sure multiple browser support for the FIDO U2F/UAF.
Contributed to open source world with the user mode - HID only device drivers. Contributed to scripts used in the FIDO certification of the authenticators.
Lead the FIDO certification of the Intel Online Connect, and it was the first integrated FIDO authenticator.
Built a large team of 15 engineers and handled the outsourcing of the legacy products to vendors.
Oversaw anomaly detection using AI/ML techniques.
Won the best project award in the SWPC, the biggest software professionals conference held at Intel level.

CybersecurityC++Distributed SystemsJavaMongoDBConfidential Computing+2

Netapp

Member of Technical Staff 3

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs · Bangalore, Sydney

Led data migration and replication software for secure data transfer and replication.
Managed ONTAP fixes and system internals, specializing in ZFS.
Spearheaded the development of workflow automation software for storage domain tasks.

CybersecurityC++

Stratify

Software Designer II

Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 · 3 yrs · Bangalore, India

Joined as mid level engineer with Stratify as founding engineer for Connected products.
Learnt a lot about file systems, file system security, data loss prevention, data protection software development using C++/Driver Development, algorithms, cryptography.
Led the development of a new android product from scratch, showcasing feasibility with a POC and turning the same into a fully funded product for 5 engineers.
Took the role of lead engineer for android application development and delivered the product for Hp Connected Back Up in a record time.
Youtube link to the product is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sdx1qe4144
Designed and implemented server-side components for a data backup solution.
Filed multiple patents related to endpoint security at Stratify in Bangalore, India.

CybersecurityC++AndroidFile Structures and System ProgrammingPrivacy Engineering

Oracle

Software Engineer

Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

Joined as an intern and started working on the Oracle core products development in C++ and Java.
Developed system software and framework for the SOA orchestrator.
Fixed many performance issues in the Oracle Database by utilizing WinDbg, GlowCode
Contributed to handheld device app development, enhancing user experience and functionality.
Was given an opportunity to lead engineers very early in my career, delivered many custom framework for workflow management software used in data analytics.

C++JavaService-Oriented Architecture (SOA)Distributed Systems