Poornaprajna Udupi

Co-Founder and CTO

2023 - Current

Executive in Residence

2022 - 2023

Co-Founder and CTO

2019 - 2022

We have built the first socially conscious Wallet. The Good Money Wallet provides 1.5% unlimited cash back on all purchases; purchase protection and travel protection! We Protect ≈3,600 trees in the Amazon per customer AND Give 1% to the planet via the RainForest Fund. I played a lead role in the three pivots that the company made. Built a team of remarkable colleagues  I inherited a large team of employees and outsourced development teams. I retrenched and reorganized the team with skills and agility to meet the business challenges.  Recruited, hired, trained (including leaders) for all technology needs: Front End, Backend, Infrastructure, Data Science, Security and Compliance, and IT.  Instilled agency and gratitude  Fostered mentoring, retrospectives, and structured communication Led Technical and Product Charter  Conducted market research and competitive analysis to refine product/customer/vertical scope.  Wrote Product Requirements Documents, mapped to Engineering Projects, scoped+prioritized projects, published timelines, and tracked implementation.  I led the selection of a balanced technology stack that is advanced but used by a wide pool of skilled talent from which to hire: Flutter for Frontend; GraphQL for API; TypeScript, Serverless for Backend; Pulumi for Infrastructure as Code; SnowFlake for Data Warehousing; Segment and Amplitude for Customer Data Analysis.  Created a strategic framework for vendor evaluation, management, alliances, contract negotiation, and integration. Built Organizational Capabilities  Participated in setting company goals and quarterly OKRs for all teams. Workshopped with individuals and leaders to map individual OKRs to company goals.  Built enhanced analytical capabilities to track company KPI and product goals.  Audited periodic financial reporting packages including Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statements. Course corrected based on the OpEx Pro Forma and Cash Forecast to manage cash burn.

Advisor

2019 - 2021

Chief Information Security Officer

2015 - 2019

1. Responsible for technology infrastructure - Cloud platform to enable engineering, data science, clinical, regulatory and business operations. - BeyondCorp, ZeroTrust environment for corporate cloud 2. Responsible for security and compliance program: - Attained LyraHealth HITRUST compliance in a record six months. HITRUST is an integrated assurance program including HIPAA, HITECH, NIST, ISO, PCI, FTC, COBIT and State laws. - Responsible for corporate security, product and application security, cloud security operations, network security, incident response, vulnerability management, risk management, disaster recovery and business continuity planning. - Responsible for education, training and awareness. 3. Responsible for IT & Facilities - Hardware and software vendor management. - Employee devices, wireless networking, ISP management, DNS - Office management

Engineering Manager

2014 - 2015

The product security team works with other teams on security-sensitive product areas like payments, user signup, partner integrations, tooling and support for fraud and abuse work, and assistance on existing and potential product security features. The application security team provides support for engineering teams (including internal and partner systems), application security design, training, and testing services, vulnerability management and mitigation, and management of application security tools and libraries, responsible vulnerability disclosure, and bug bounty programs.

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Security

2012 - 2014

Built highly scalable security products to protect customer and employee information. All these projects used Amazon Web Services and Netflix Open Source Stack as underlying technologies.

Senior Software Engineer, Edge systems and API

2010 - 2012

Designed and developed highly scalable, multi-tier, web systems for enabling Netflix integrated applications on a variety of platforms. Developed RESTful API to support Netflix application on AppleTV, Sony BIVL and other devices. Created logging mechanisms for tracking events across Netflix microservices. Developed the latest generation of API platform in Java that enabled Server-Executed Client-Based Groovy Code (Patents: US20130318154 A1, EP 2663052 A1)

Senior Software Engineer, Sun Labs

2005 - 2010

Applied Research and Prototype development in the areas on Internet of Things (IoT), sensor networks, applied cryptography, anti-phishing protocols.

Software Engineer

2003 - 2005

Solaris Operating System kernel based test development, maintenance and debugging. Projects include: DTrace, KMDB, Solaris Service Management Framework, Samba, Solaris x86 port to AMD 64-bit opterons, Linux Application Environment.