Growing up in rural India in the 90s, I never imagined I'd be slinging code and diving into the tech scene. But here we are, 15+ years later, after building and scaling SaaS products in Silicon Valley across 5+ startups, and now, founder of a cybersecurity startup.Raised in a family of farmers, I soaked in resilience, perseverance, gratitude and most importantly the willingness to make a difference. Even though not applied to farming, I attribute these early learnings to most of my professional success. After graduating with an engineering degree, I began my career in a renowned hedge fund and then immigrated to the US to work in Silicon Valley startups. Since then, I have worked in 4+ Silicon Valley startups, most being seed stage. During the same time, I’ve had the opportunity to watch the Silicon Valley veterans like Jyoti Bansal closely, work with them and learn from their mentorship.While working with him on a cybersecurity product, I encountered fundamental inefficiencies in the cybersecurity space. Inefficiencies in the development, integration and testing of API systems in enterprise applications that culminate in data breaches and PR nightmares. Manual pen testing is hardly comprehensive pre-launch, and a lack of documentation makes it virtually impossible. Shockingly, 50% of organizations only test their security during periodic audits, with 18% never testing at all. To tackle these problems, I founded Levo.ai. Contrary to most solutions in the space that generate and combat alerts when the applications are already live, our approach is preventing attacks through automated testing while the applications are still in development. Why? The flawed reactive approach takes companies an average of 280 days to identify and contain a breach, costing them a whopping $3.86 million to $6.45 million. (Source: IBM)Our solution enables robust discovery, documentation and automated testing while your developers work on building the app-a proactive approach that is necessary as cybersecurity threats continue to escalate rapidly. Curious about how it works? Feel free to book a demo or reach out to me here on LinkedIn.