Ashwin Altekar
VP And Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshwin Altekar is a seasoned information security executive and current VP & CISO with nine years in senior leadership roles and two decades of hands-on security experience across payments, retail, healthcare, and cloud. He combines technical depth—assembly, C#, Java, application and network security—with strategic program-building, having led security transformations through private equity rounds and an IPO. Certified across CISSP, CISM, CSSLP, GSEC, CEH and trained CCNA, Ashwin has also served as a PCI Qualified Security Assessor and driven measurable improvements in breach resistance and compliance. He has a practical developer-facing mindset, routinely training engineers and teaching graduate cybersecurity, which helps him embed security into SDLCs and culture rather than bolt it on. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he balances technical leadership with community engagement as a Big Brother and orchestra violinist, reflecting a collaborative, disciplined approach to problem solving. Notably, he has secured hundreds of enterprise applications and networks for Fortune 100 organizations, blending audit rigor with pragmatic engineering.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Administration and Management General, MBA Business Administration and Management General at Texas McCombs School of BusinessB.S. Electrical Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B.S. Electrical Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish
Github Skills (4)
git-repo9
spring-boot5
java4
spring4
Github contributions (2)
ashwinaltekar/Happiness
Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
ashwinaltekar/CS4782
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:50 commits, 23 PRs, 49 pushes in 4 months
spring-bootspringjavagit-repo
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