Pathik Patel
Founding Member at GIT1K
Pathik Patel
Founding Member at GIT1K
Pleasanton, California
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Cloud Security
2016 - Current
Developed strategic and long-range goals that establishes risk-based approach to solve security and compliance. Security SME for the organization responsible to Informatica’s cloud transformation journey. Responsible for building ‘Customer Trust’ and interpreting customer security requirements into business requirements. Lead team of security engineering, security incident response and compliance functions distributed across 3 countries. Responsible for security control evaluation, deployment and monitoring of SOC2, HIPAA & FedRAMP certified cloud offering. Routinely worked with internal leadership and customer leadership teams to help them understand business impact in relation to security challenges of using cloud.
Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management platform that accelerates data-driven digital transformation.
Raised $408,000,000.00.
Founding Member
2022
GIT1K is the End-User Syndicate for IT, Eng, Data, and Security leaders.
Angel Investor
2020
Advisory Board Member
2020
Member
2021
Aphinia is a community of senior cybersecurity executives that learns from each other and helps in keeping their constituents safe.
Member
2017
A practitioners-first community of security executives committed to supporting and developing others. The ISLF is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit
Chief Information Security Officer
2014 - 2016
Build and manage information security function, provide security leadership and advisory service across various business functions. Built FedRAMP certified data center and controls to ensure that Skyhigh has edge while serving Government sector. Responsible for building and managing compliance program that adheres to ISO27001, ISO27018, CSA, TRUSTe. Drove results through innovation, automating security controls, the right mix of SaaS / AWS / hybrid clouds, and helping teams take smart business risks. Restructure use of various security tools and technology to evaluate best of the breed solution for securing infrastructure and people. Integral part of sales and legal organization advising them on security strategy, risk and governance.
Sr. Information Security Engineer
2012 - 2014
Responsible for design and deployment of various security tools WAF,IDS/IPS. Manage PKI infrastructure. Security reviews with developers to support their Devops cycle. Deployed campus wide BYOD solution to support Enterprise SSO. Lead Security architect for Enterprise IT Cloud. Designed and implemented cloud security services such as FIM, WebApp Firewall as a Service, Wrote a AUTH module to integrate SSO in cloud. Manage robust environment of netflix where services are hosted on both deta center and public/private cloud infrastructure.
Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.
Raised $4,907,714,724.00 from Saul Bisht and TCV.
Manager, Defense Team
2011 - 2012
Protect Yahoo! Network from various attacks at network boundaries. Act as technical escalation point to analyze and mitigate DoS attacks. Member of a core infrastructure team whose sole responsibility is to keep Yahoo! Network highly available and safe. Help Yahoo! Domains in analyzing, defining & identifying abuse/spam/cracking/vulnerability seen on Yahoo! Platform. Experience dealing with Abuse in all major web components Yahoo! has in its arsenal such as Advertising, Search, Answers with each proposing their own challenges. Saved millions of dollar in bandwidth and hardware cost by moving abuse detection to edge of Y! Network.
Lead Operations Engineer
2007 - 2011
Lead Anti-Abuse team
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
System & security adminsitrator
2006 - 2007
Setup initial infrastructure to bootstrap a startup. Corporate office infrastructure, DNS/DHCP servers, Setting up routing and networking equipments at Data center, Help setup developer tools such as Code repo, Ticketing system, config management system etc..
Systems Administrator
2005 - 2006