Summary
Bishan Kochar is a seasoned infrastructure security engineer with 10 years of focused experience securing cloud-native platforms, now serving as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI after senior leadership roles at Robinhood and Yahoo. He specializes in Kubernetes security—workload isolation, least privilege RBAC, admission control, and security observability using eBPF—bridging build-time controls and runtime telemetry to harden developer workflows. His background spans application and network security consulting to enterprise security practice leadership, giving him a pragmatic blend of offensive insight and defensive architecture. Known for translating complex security controls into operational guardrails, he has repeatedly driven large-scale security improvements in high-throughput environments. Based in the United States, he brings a continuous focus on measurable isolation and auditable controls that reduce blast radius without slowing delivery.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer