Sekhar Sarukkai
Advisor at Berkeley Skydeck
Sekhar Sarukkai
Advisor at Berkeley Skydeck
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Faculty member; EAC@CLTC; Advisor @ Berkeley Skydeck
2020 - Current
Capstone Lecturer for graduate Cybersecurity program. External Advisory Committee, Center for Long Term Cybersecurity. Key advisor & LP @ Berkeley Skydeck.
Operating Executive/Advisor
2024
Angel Investor & advisor
2020
Angel investor & advisor to multiple startups. More details here: https://www.skrangels.com.
VP, Fellow (now Skyhigh Security)
2018 - 2021
Founder, Chief Scientist & SVP Engineering (now McAfee / Skyhigh Security)
2012 - 2018
An investor, founder and board member of Skyhigh Networks (funded by Sequoia and Greylock). Acquired by McAfee. Responsible for technology, engineering and operations for the industry leading Cloud security solution. Incubated adjacencies and extensions of the Skyhigh CASB platform.
Co-founder
2010 - 2017
A social enterprise (and Kiva India partner) that brings peer2peer micro-financing (with the use of technology and innovative micro-VC funding models) to impoverished entrepreneurs in rural India. High impact, one person at a time. http://www.micrograam.org. Micrograam is a Computerworld Honors award winner.
Senior Director Engineering, PMBU/Security Technology Group
2007 - 2012
Lead engineering for all of Cisco's enterprise Identity and network access control product portfolio deployed in almost all of Cisco's wired, wireless and VPN customers. ISE was awarded Cisco Pioneer award in 2012.
Founder, CTO
2004 - 2007
Access control, XACML, incredible customer traction, lots of caffeine. Acquired by Cisco. Responsible for technology and engineering. A founder and board member -- funded by Greylock.
Founder, CTO
2001 - 2004
SOA, SOAP, web services management, SAML, UDDI, WS-policy, caffeine. API management and security. Acquired by Oracle (via Oblix) and still lives on as a core part of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Senior Researcher
1996 - 2001
Lots of fun projects, papers and patents including one of the earliest web browsing using speech, etc. Then was chief architect at the e-speak group -- bleeding edge work ahead of the rest of the industry on web-services, app store, mobile app access, etc.