Karibasaveswara Anagi Gowdra

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years in cloud security and automation.
  • Proven track record in mentoring and team leadership.
  • Expertise in building automation frameworks and AI validation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with a strong focus on cloud security and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud SecurityTechnical LeadershipAiAutomationThreat ManagementCybersecurityInformation Security

Other Skills

API TestingAdministrationAmazon Web Services (AWS)Artificial Intelligence (AI)BGPBig DataCassandraCloud ApplicationsCloud ComputingContinuous IntegrationCouchDBCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer EngagementDNSDatabases

About

Dynamic Engineering Manager & Technical Leader with 15+ years of experience in cloud security, automation, DevSecOps, and product engineering. Skilled at building and scaling teams of developers and security researchers, driving compliance and research initiatives, and delivering automation-first engineering outcomes. Proven track record in mentoring engineers, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and aligning technology with business strategy. A hands-on technical professional with deep expertise in Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, REST API security, big data (Cassandra, MongoDB), and multi-cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, IBM). Recognized for building automation frameworks, securing cloud-native platforms, and pioneering AI-led validation approaches.

Experience

17 yrs
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Palo alto networks

3 roles

Research Manager

Promoted

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Managed global teams of developers and security researchers delivering 1500+ multi-cloud security policies across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and IBM.
  • Built internal automation tools like Recursive Cloud Resource Ripper and regression frameworks, accelerating validation pipelines.
  • Co-authored Gemini, an AI-powered
  • policy intelligence engine that generated 500+ standardized policy descriptions using large language models.
  • Migrated security research and attack simulation infrastructure to untrusted cloud environments, boosting compliance rigor and fault isolation.
  • Led security escalations, design reviews, delivery ownership, and team growth strategies across globally distributed teams.
Service-Level Agreements (SLA)Palo Alto Networks PrismaThreat & Vulnerability ManagementInterpersonal CommunicationCloud ComputingThreat Management+19

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2022 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Designed and Developed a CNAPP-style automation framework simulating 500+ real-world attack paths, integrating vulnerabilities across IAM, firewalls, containers, and secrets.
  • Created a honeypot-based cloud lab generating 1000+ live attack scenarios, significantly enhancing demos, validation, research output, and customer training.
  • Automated CIS-compliant research cloud labs, enabling multi-cloud experimentation and validation at scale.
  • Spearheaded threat modeling and AI-powered signature/policy generation pipelines.
Service-Level Agreements (SLA)Software Quality AssuranceRisk AssessmentHiringVulnerability AssessmentCloud Computing+20

senior staff cloud security research and QA automation

Aug 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Design/Architect automation which cover AWS, Azure and GCP
pytestAmazon Web Services (AWS)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)TerraformThreat ManagementInformation Security+8

Ping identity

MTS 3 QA, ML and AI - Cyber and digital Security

Dec 2018 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • + Automation - Architect, design and Develop automation frameworks, and tools
  • + ML and AI - Manual and Automated
  • + Dockers/Containers
  • + Python, pytest, and flask
  • + Cyber Security - IoT, digital assets, etc over APIs
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningInformation SecurityREST APIsarchitectJenkins+2

Akamai technologies

3 roles

SDET, senior 2

Apr 2018 – Dec 2018 · 8 mos

  • Framework and tools development to perform performance activities using
  • CI - Jenkins
  • Python
  • Ansible
  • Mentor team members
  • Technically lead and manage performance activities
  • Perform hands-on performance activities
Information SecuritySecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)architect

SDET, Senior 2 - Cloud Security

Promoted

Jun 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • SME of Akamai's WAF reporting and notifications product
  • Entire Security Monitor [Designed around WAF], DevQA engineer responsible for qualifying and validating entire product from end-2-end
  • Validating and Qualifying Apache Cassandra
  • Performance and Benchmarking Apache Cassandra
  • Develop DevOps tools to manage Apache Cassandra in heavily distributed environment
  • Design, Develop and Maintain Automation framework to test Apache Cassandra
  • CI/CD using Jenkins
  • API testing and automation using Postman
  • Python/pyTest for all automation needs
  • ZeroMQ, and nginx
  • Summary:
  • Bigdata: Apache Cassandra
  • API test and automation - Postman
  • python,pytest, and Jenkins - CI/CD
  • Bigdata automation framework design and implement from scratch
  • Security: Web Application Firewall [WAF] in details.
  • Amateur DevOps
Information SecuritySecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)architect

SDET, Senior

Dec 2013 – May 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Validated CouchDB at core level
  • Automation of distributed CouchDB nodes
  • Performance and Benchmarking of couchDB at server and Client layers
  • Validating website product's performance
  • Validating and Automating medial plugins on platforms like iOS, Android, Roku, xbox, and other devices
  • Summary:
  • Big Data: CouchDB
  • tSung
  • Performance and Benchmarking
  • Jasmin scripting
  • Python
  • Appium
Information SecuritySecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Rsa the security division of emc

Software Engineer Security QE

Dec 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs

  • 1. Penetration Testing on series of RSA Advanced SOC Netwitness and Security Analytics products
  • 2. Product Security Assignment Process
  • 3. Threat modeling to check security vulnerabilities at Architectural level
  • 4. Network, System, and Security Testing for RSA Security Analytics and Netwitness NextGen products
  • 5. Secure Static Code Analysis of C++, and Java using HP Fortify tool
  • 6. Perform Network and Web App like HTTP/HTTPS, JSP/REST based application vulnerability testing and issues triaging.
  • 7. Using Nessus and Hailstrom Cenzic security tools, check security vulnerabilities and reproduce and triaging the same
  • 8. Recommending, developing and validation IPSEC/VPN across Netwitness components
  • 9. Linux [CentOS] OS/appliance hardening
  • 10. PBR deployment of modules using Pfsense and iptables
  • 11. OWASP based Security vulnerability Testing like XSS, CSRF, SQL Injection, Cryptography, XML Bombs, Path Traversal, OS Command Injection, CRLF etc
Information SecuritySecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Juniper networks

QA Engineer 2

Jan 2011 – Dec 2011 · 11 mos · Bangalore, India

  • 1. Manual testing of VPN functionalities and features
  • 2. Manual testing firewall policies features
  • 3. Development of End-2-End regression automation framework using Perl, Expect and TCL
  • 4. Architected and developed a tool to create a PR/tickets for the failed testcases automatically.
Information SecuritySecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Verisign

College Intern

Jul 2008 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

Information Security

Education

Sri Jayachamarejendra College of Engineering

MTech — Software Engineering

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009

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