Aug 2024 – Feb 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos · omnipresent · Hybrid

• The United States Space Force (USSF) is the space force branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six armed forces of the United States and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is also one of two independent space forces in the world.

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · College Station-Bryan Area · On-site

• My research interests include Cybersecurity, Cyber Warfare, Security Standards and Cyber Insurance.
• I am the founder and Director of AGGIES Lab, https://www.aggieslab.org/

Jun 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

Jan 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos · College Station, Texas, United States · Hybrid

• Security and compliance consulting for small businesses and startups

Nov 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Palo Alto

• Deserve is a platform to launch and operate Credit cards as a service. Our turnkey branded and co‐branded credit card programs are digital-first, mobile-centric and highly configurable. With Deserve, you can approve more customers with lower losses and provide a superior experience in a secure and compliant way.
• Security depends on people, processes, and technology. My belief is that if we take care of people first, we can get more out of technology and processes. I work for, and lead, highly motivated and global teams focussing on Security, Privacy, and IT. My teams are responsible for all aspects of security governance, product security, cloud security, incident response, compliance, privacy and IT.
• The most rewarding aspect of these two years were leading a very happy team and managing the team morale and well-being through the pandemic and remote work.

Sep 2019 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Redwood City

• I advised on matters related to Security, Risk and Compliance.

Sep 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Starting Sept 2018, I worked in the Core Infrastructure team responsible for securing the Core Infrastructure Foundation.
• I have led or contributed to the following successful projects:
• Security of Uber Payments BV, the payments entity in Europe to meet PSD2 requirements.
• Security of Payments Infrastructure
• Security of Acquired companies infrastructure
• M&A due diligence for payments related assets
• I serve as a security advisor to local teams which need to represent Uber security posture to the governments or local regulators.
• A diversity leader at Uber, I started and Co-Chair the fastest growing Employee Resource Group, Immigrants ERG. In this capacity I help Uber D&I team and top management in policy formulation such as those are more empathetic to the employees on visas.

Sep 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Promoted in Sept 2017, I took on additional responsibility of managing a global team for third party security assessments.
• I worked as a security advisor to Money Engineering.
• I led security and compliance related matters related to Uber's operations in South East Asia leading to a smooth disinvestment.

Jan 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Payments Security Leader for Uber Globally
• Started and scaled Vendor Security Management to a world class team which I manage
• Advisor to mergers and acquisitions at Uber from a payments security perspective.
• Strategic Global problem solver - wherever needed
• A Bar raiser (expert interviewer). Among 3% Uber employees who are bar raisers
• Led Uber's PCI DSS 3.2 Certification Project to successful result on time.
• Co-Founder and Co-Chair of Uber Immigrants ERG (Employee Resource Group)
• One of the top Employee driver partners of Uber, drove for charity and understood the security aspects from a driver's perspective.
• Got promoted to the current level in Sept 2017.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · San Jose

• Spring 2018: Designed and taught a Graduate level security course: CMPE 279-Software Security Technologies. The MS Software Engineering with Specialization in Cybersecurity (MSSE-Cybersecurity) program is the only recognized CAE Curriculum Path by NSA/DHS for SJSU. CMPE 279 is recognized as one of the key courses of the MSSE-Cybersecurity program.
• Spring 2019: Taught CMPE 279-Software Security Technologies after huge success of the 2018 teaching (based on student feedback). Some great security minds including RSA President Rohit Ghai were kind enough to visit my classroom as guest speakers.
• In April 2019, was awarded Best Practices in Teaching Award for Diversity Equity and Inclusion by SJSU.
• I have also advised a group of students for their M.S. project focussed on security.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• CloudOptics is a comprehensive Security Platform for the Enterprise. The product detects, remediates and alerts continuously about security issues. It helps manage continuous compliance such as HIPAA, PCI, ISO 27001.
• My role was domain advisory for security and compliance.
• CloudOptics was awarded "Security Company of the Year 2018" at the Dynamic CISO summit 2018. It also won the Aegis Graham Bell Award 2018 in the “Innovation in Cloud” category.
• https://cloudoptics.io

Sep 2015 – Mar 2023 · 7 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco

• The US Secret Service was mandated by the USA PATRIOT Act to establish a nationwide network of ECTFs. These bodies collectively provide necessary support and resources to field investigations that meet any one of the following criteria: significant economic or community impact; participation of organized criminal groups involving multiple districts or transnational organizations; or use of schemes involving new technology. Investigations conducted by ECTFs include crimes such as computer generated counterfeit currency; bank fraud; virus and worm proliferation; access device fraud; telecommunications fraud; Internet threats; computer system intrusions and cyber-attacks; phishing/spoofing; assistance with Internet-related child pornography and exploitation; and identity theft. Security professionals subject to certain background checks and join these ECTFs as partners to help the financial security of the US by enhanced public private collaboration.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · San Jose

• Led the Security Compliance efforts for Adobe Document Cloud, and responsible for the following product/service certifications: PCI DSS 3.1, ISO 27001:2013, SOC2 Type2, and more.

Jan 2012 – Dec 2012 · 11 mos · Santa Clara

• Designed a new course on Java Security from scratch and taught it for two semesters.
• Catalog: http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/sites/default/files/imce/public/pdf/ENG_TECH_Fall2012.pdf
• (Java Security on Page 20)

Jan 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Turant is a AI based secure, scalable, and affordable solution for biometric verification. The application potential is tremendous for Fintech, law enforcement and other businesses.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2014 · 8 yrs · Redwood Shores CA

• Worked in product development of Oracle Identity Management, the cutting edge security product by Oracle.
• Design and Development of Oracle Access Manager product
• Successfully delivered the OAM 11gR2 release
• Experience with Single Sign On, Cloud security, Federation and Access Control
• Worked on Oracle Beehive product on Zimbra integration with Beehive. It is one of the largest Oracle Real Application Clusters deployments in the world.
• Previously worked on Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) development, which is one of the pillars of Oracle's Fusion Middleware.

Dec 2003 – Oct 2005 · 1 yr 10 mos · College Station

• Graduate Assistant, International and European Union Center, at the George Bush Presidential Library, Texas A&M University, College Station
• Organized a major event involving diplomats of over 50 countries including those from China and Taiwan which in itself was a big learning in diplomacy and communications.

Sep 1999 – Jul 2003 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Software Development, System Analysis, Business Process Reengineering, Client relationship management.
• On Deputation at Perot Systems, Singapore, worked for CPF Board - the social security organization of Singapore and performed project coordination across geographies in a multi cultural setting
• Worked for two years at client location Singapore, multitasking with different roles – Software development, managing customer relations and coordination among the customer in Singapore, developers located in India and third party experts in Australia
• Implemented a storage solutions project with disaster recovery and Business continuity planning components