Sunil James
Taking a break to help others.
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
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.
AccuKnox Zero Trust CNAPP Cloud Security protects Public clouds, Private clouds, Kubernetes, VMs, Bare metals, IoT Edge, and 5G security.
Raised $10,600,000.00 from National Grid Partners (NGP), Dolby Family Ventures, MDSV Capital, Dreamit Ventures, 5G Open Innovation Lab, Avanta Ventures, NetApp Excellerator, Z5 Capital, Outliers Venture Capital and Gravity Ranch.
Strategery Advisor
2017
Ubiquity Ventures is a "nerdy and early" venture capital firm that invests in "software beyond the screen" (typically ML or smart hardware).
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.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud company that uses comprehensive solutions to accelerate business outcomes.
Raised $1,350,000,000.00.
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).
Noq provides self-service automation for Cloud identity
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.
Passage is a modern identity for web and mobile applications.
Raised $4,000,000.00 from Next Coast Ventures, LiveOak Ventures, Tau Ventures and Secure Octane.
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
BVP Forge operates as a private equity firm that focuses on software-enabled businesses.
Education
BS/BA
1995 - 1999