Ash Kumar
Chantilly, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAsh Kumar is a seasoned cybersecurity leader with 11+ years of experience orchestrating risk, resilience, and security transformation for high-stakes enterprises, most notably leading cyber risk and resilience at JetBlue. As Director of Cybersecurity and a vCISO advisor, he builds pragmatic programs across IT, OT, cloud, and third-party ecosystems—translating technical vulnerabilities into board-level intelligence and measurable operational improvements. He has driven enterprise SOC and SIEM modernizations, established multi-cloud guardrails, and launched integrated application security and bug-bounty programs that accelerated detection and remediation. Ash combines hands-on technical leadership with a consulting mindset from his vCISO practice, helping diverse organizations mature security posture while keeping innovation moving. He is passionate about mentoring future security leaders and embedding a security-first culture so cyber risk becomes a shared business responsibility. Based in Chantilly, VA, his background in engineering and decades across regulated industries gives him a rare fluency in aligning security controls to mission-critical operational continuity.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
python7
machine-learning7
deep-learning6
data-visualization6
streamlit6
developer-tools6
data-science6
data-analysis5
pandas5
fastest4
bokeh2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ak25455/Nxlog
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes in 1 month
ak25455/Elasticsearch
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:8 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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