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A seasoned architect and technology leader with repeated success in bootstrapping mission critical enterprise SaaS and platform services, and in leading innovation and continued growth of product lines across a variety of security domains (Identity, PKI, KMS, DLP, CASB, IoT Security etc.)Architected and led development the highly available cloud SaaS authentication service (VIP) that serves many large Fortune 100 enterprises. I was also the architect of the Managed PKI Service at VeriSign and Symantec that issued over one billion device and user certificates, which was the industry’s largest at the time. In addition, I was instrumental for the technology and architecture design of a number of security services across Identity (Norton Login), DLP, Encryption (ICE), KMS, IoT security and others.Led product security and compliance, with 10+ year hands-on design and review (100+ releases), for product lines and application types ranging from SaaS to mobile applications.An author of multiple industry RFC standards, including the widely adopted RFC6238 for One-Time-Password (OTP). I have represented corporate in standards bodies and contributed leadership, white papers, and standards work (OATH, FIDO, GP, IETF etc.)Frequently presented technology and product architecture to executives, partners, customers, engineers, and project stakeholders with an ability to articulate complex technical and architecture design in simplicity.I continue to invent new technologies (15+ patents) that cover a variety of security domains.Expertise and experience in SaaS high availability, scalability, resilience, security, Microservices, Data Modeling, Security Domain (Identity and Access management, Strong Authentication, ID Proofing, PKI, CASB, Zero Trust Access, IoT Security, Applied Cryptography), Product Security, SDLC, Threat Modeling, Software Development (Java, C, C++, Python, NodeJS, NoSQL - DynamoDB, MongoDB, SOAP, REST, Spring Boot, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis, Kinesis, Docker, CI/CD, AWS etc.)

Listed skills include Cloud Computing, Security, Web Services, Pki, and 30 others.