Ashwin Ambekar
Distinguished MTS (Sr. Director) - Cloud Infrastructure Security at eBay
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAshwin Ambekar is a Distinguished MTS and senior cloud infrastructure security leader based in San Jose with over two decades of experience in security, software development, and architecture, and more than a decade in cloud security leadership at eBay. He architects planet-scale solutions for PII pseudonymization/tokenization, agentic and cloud IAM (including Zanzibar/AuthZEN/OpenFGA patterns), and large-scale key and certificate management for multi-cloud and Kubernetes environments. His work spans Zero Trust, service mesh (Istio) segmentation, PBAC/ReBAC and Policy-as-Code, demonstrating a rare combination of hands-on technical design and strategic security innovation. Prior roles include founding consultancies and product architecture work in identity virtualization, PKI/X.509, and edge security, showing entrepreneurial breadth alongside enterprise impact. Ashwin’s IIT Bombay M.Tech background underpins a methodical approach to solving complex, compliance-driven problems like PCI in cloud-native contexts. Notably, he blends deep protocol-level expertise with pragmatic platform thinking to secure both human and non-human identities at provider scale.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayB.E., B.E. at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya
Github Skills (54)
programming-language10
fonts10
css10
active-directory10
go10
golang10
woff10
encryption10
google-fonts10
decryption9
ssl9
ldap9
interpreter9
logos9
cryptography9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
eBay/TrustFabric
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Specifications for TrustFabric Identity
Contributions:48 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 months
asambeka/ldap
Mar 2018 - Jun 2019
Basic LDAP v3 functionality for the GO programming language.
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 year 2 months
golangprogramming-languageldap
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