Sunil James

Strategery Advisor & Board Member

2022 - Current

Working with amazing entrepreneurs and SRE -types from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Stripe, and more to help engineers understand what’s happening, collaborate efficiently, and act intelligently by fusing SRE wisdom with a real-time model of their production software environment.

Strategery Advisor

2020

Working with amazing entrepreneurs to deliver enterprise governance as code (similar to how infrastructure is managed as code today) to software and security engineering teams with an easy to use, standardized language for enforcing governance policies in large scale, dynamic cloud environments.

Strategery Advisor

2022

Working with amazing entrepreneurs from Facebook and more who are helping the next generation of entrepnuerial engineers more easily build the modern, tech-forward enterprises of tomorrow.

Strategery Advisor

2020

Working with amazing entrepreneurs to deliver cloud security capabilities partially built upon AppArmor, eBPF, SELinux, and SPIFFE/SPIRE that allow enterprises to continuously monitor and protect running Kubernetes containers.

Strategery Advisor

2017

Vice President of Software Engineering

2022 - 2023

I led a global team of HPE GreenLake engineers dedicated to securing customer data. My focus included strengthening our identity, authentication, and authorization services to safeguard our customers and cloud-native infrastructure. I also drove the productization of innovations from my prior HPE roles. Together, we helped shape a secure and innovative future for our customers.

Vice President, Product & Engineering

2021 - 2022

Following HPE’s acquisition of Scytale, I led product and engineering for HPE’s security engineering division, which has teammates in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We delivered security into (and through) HPE’s hardware and software products through efforts like Project Aurora. We partnered with HPE product and engineering leaders to understand the security needs of them and their customers.

Senior Director, Product & Engineering

2020 - 2021

Following HPE’s acquisition of Scytale, I led product and engineering for HPE’s security engineering division, which has teammates in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We delivered security into (and through) HPE’s hardware and software products through efforts like Project Aurora. We partnered with HPE product and engineering leaders to understand the security needs of them and their customers.

Strategery Advisor

2021 - 2023

Worked with amazing entrepreneurs from Netflix, Google, Yelp, and more who were empowering developers to deliver stronger cloud security with self-service automation for IAMOps (cloud identity and access management operations).

Strategery Advisor

2021 - 2022

Acquired by 1Password: https://blog.1password.com/1password-acquires-passage Worked with amazing entrepreneurs to breathe to life a developer-first and biometric-first approach to passwordless authentication, enabling users to login to web applications with Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello, and other biometrics built into their devices.

Chief Executive Officer

2017 - 2020

Acquired by HPE: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/blog-post/2020/02/hpe-acquires-scytale-to-advance-open-secure-edge-to-cloud-strategy.html

Vice President

2014 - 2017

Invested in: Bastille Networks: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bastille-networks-2 Claroty: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/claroty Illusive Networks: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/illusive-networks iSIGHT Partners: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/isight-partners Kandou Bus: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kandou-bus Team8: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/team8 Observer to: Endgame: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/endgame-inc Internet Identity (IID): https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/internet-identity Nominum: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nominum Reputation.com: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reputation-com Smule: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/smule