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Joined Oracle through the acquisition of Palerra and was responsible for Oracle cloud security products. Successfully integrated Palerra into Oracle and expanded the scope by integrating with Oracle SaaS applications. Delighted customers around the world by helping them with secure cloud adoption. Built a phenomenal team and held on to the startup culture while expanding the team more than doubled in size.

Co-founder and CTO of Palerra, a technology innovator delivering LORIC, the first cloud security automation platform in the industry. LORIC automates the lifecycle of security for the entire cloud stack ranging from configuration management to threat detection all the way to incident response and remediation.

As a Sr. Director of Engineering at Oracle Corporation, I was responsible for engineering management, product delivery, feature planning and strategy for: Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS), Oracle Entitlement Server (OES), and Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) products. I was also responsible for Oracle Identity Management and Security integration with Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle Public Cloud.Technologies worked with: Java/J2EE/C/C++, Access control, Audit (AAA), PKI, SSL, Encryption and Digital signatures technologies, Weblogic Server Security, SOA Platform Security, Data Security, Application Security, and Identity Management (LDAP, Access Management, Fine-Grained Authorization, Web Services Security).

As part of a central infrastructure team, I was responsible for providing common J2EE and Java Security services and solutions. Provided SSO and authentication integration architecture for applications built using Weblogic and JRun servers. Solutions implemented using multiple technologies: BEA Weblogic, Netegrity SiteMinder, Sun IPlanet LDAP, Solaris/Unix etc.

Defined and implemented Entitlement Management Server for managing user provisioning for hosted applications (PeopleSoft, Siebel etc). Technologies used: Citrix Server, Desktop/GINA authentication, SiteMinder/SSO, LDAP, Java, Apache, Tomcat etc.