Ankita Gupta
Co-Founder And CEO at Akto.io
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkita Gupta is a founder-engineer and CEO with a decade-and-a-half of experience across JP Morgan, LinkedIn, VMware, and early-stage startups, now focused on building Akto—the API security platform she co-founded that earned recognition such as Forbes 40 Under 40. An IIT Roorkee engineer and Tuck MBA, she combines product-led technical depth with strategic GTM and operations experience from leadership roles including Chief of Staff at CleverTap. She left a corporate career in 2022 to scale Akto full-time and has been obsessively hands-on in product and security engineering since, blending engineering instincts from early work at Snapdeal with investment-analyst discipline from Dasra and J.P. Morgan. Based in Palo Alto, she is vocal about enterprise API security best practices and actively builds open-source tooling through Akto’s GitHub.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeMaster of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General at The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
English, Hindi
Github Skills (35)
devsecops10
shift10
authentication10
security10
security-testing10
owasp10
authorization10
api-security10
api-testing10
penetration-testing9
hacking9
pentesting9
methodology8
application-security8
testing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
akto-api-security/Documentation
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:5 reviews, 50 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Ankita28g/www-project-devsecops-guideline
May 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 10 months
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