Summary
Ashutosh Kumar is an application security engineer with 8 years of experience, currently serving as a Member of Technical Staff at PayPal where he leads vulnerability research, risk-based prioritization, and scaled scanning solutions to eradicate entire vulnerability classes. He has deep hands-on expertise in SDLC-integrated security, exploit triage, root cause analysis, and building internal tooling to proactively discover and fix issues, including GenAI security test patterns. Previously he secured cloud-native products at Gainsight and delivered gray/white-box testing, SAST/DAST, and CI/CD hardening at Cognizant for enterprise SaaS platforms. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs a practical engineering mindset with a research-driven approach that surfaces systemic fixes rather than one-off patches. An electrical and electronics engineering graduate, he brings an uncommon blend of low-level curiosity and large-scale product security impact.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at SIRT,BHOPAL
English, Hindi