Pathik Patel

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.

Founding Member

2022

Angel Investor

2020

Advisory Board Member

2020

Member

2021

Member

2017

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.

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

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