Qasim Mithani

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States12 yrs 7 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Founder and CEO of an applied AI lab.
Led security initiatives at Databricks.
Developed quant trading models for a $40 billion portfolio.

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

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Skills

Core Skills

CybersecurityCloud ComputingInfrastructure As A Service (iaas)Software DevelopmentEquity TradingData Analysis

Other Skills

Vulnerability ManagementPKISecure accessAnomaly DetectionMachine LearningGenerative AILarge Language Models (LLM)Agile Project ManagementTechnical RecruitingTeam LeadershipCoachingDistributed SystemsTenant isolationEncryptionAccess control

Experience

12 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 7 mos

Current Experience

Depthfirst

Co-Founder and CEO

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

depthfirst is an applied AI lab with the mission of securing the world's software. We're hiring very aggressively!

Vulnerability ManagementPKISecure accessCybersecurityAnomaly DetectionMachine Learning+8

Databricks

Head of Infrastrucure + Head of Platform Security

Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 · 5 yrs · San Francisco, California

As an early employee, head of infra and head of platform security, I built / led the team to build and scale the infrastructure and enterprise platform, that all of databricks' product run on, operating millions of VMs securely across all major clouds. I also spearheaded all security for enterprises using the platform including vulnerability discovery and management, tenant isolation, encryption, pioneering access control and compliances like PCI, Fedramp. I later left to start my own company, focused on solving security problems I care deeply about.

Distributed SystemsCloud ComputingVulnerability ManagementTenant isolationEncryptionAccess control+2

Amazon web services (aws)

Engineer -> Engineering/Product leader -> GM

Jan 2014 – Nov 2018 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Built Apollo, Code Deploy and inspector (including on host vulnerability scanning)
Software engineer (Tech lead) -> Engineering manager -> GM

Distributed SystemsInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Vulnerability scanningSoftware engineeringSoftware Development

Ontario teachers' pension plan

Fixed Income Trader

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs · Toronto, Canada Area

Including multiple co-op terms there (https://uwaterloo.ca/future-students/co-op).
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) is one of the largest institutional investors in Canada with over $250 Billion in Assets under management. I was a quant trader on OTPPs' Fixed income and Equities desk.
Developed models for identifying the best investment opportunities and executing the trades. Our team of 6 managed a portfolio of over $40 Billion.
Developed models for calculation the valuation and risk exposure of very complex financial instruments including bonds, interest rate swaps, inflation swaps, futures, swaptions, etc

Fixed IncomeEquity TradingData AnalysisStatistics