Harinee Muralinath
Business Information Security Officer - India Middle East
Greater Bengaluru Area India
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Top SchoolHarinee Muralinath is a seasoned information security leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Business Information Security Officer for India and the Middle East at Thoughtworks. She has progressed through technical and leadership roles—from Quality Analyst to Head of Security and Global Community Lead—demonstrating a blend of hands-on engineering and strategic security capability building. Comfortable in both DevOps and security engineering contexts, she has contributed to notable open-source tooling like Talisman, improving installation, cross-OS support, and secret-detection patterns. A systems-trained MBA with a BSc (Hons), Harinee pairs operational rigor with people leadership to scale security practices across regions. Colleagues describe her as pragmatic and curious, often surfacing practical automation and detection improvements before they become visible risks.
11 years of coding experience
MBA, Systems, MBA, Systems at SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYUniversity of Delhi
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Github Skills (19)
scripting10
it-security10
bash10
git-hooks10
security10
automation10
script10
sh10
automations10
shell10
devops10
githubaction-workflow8
github-ci8
secrets7
windows7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtworks/talisman
Oct 2018 - Nov 2020
Using a pre-commit hook, Talisman validates the outgoing changeset for things that look suspicious — such as tokens, passwords, and private keys.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 48 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Harinee primarily focused on improving the installation and setup process for the Talisman tool. They automated setting up the `TALISMAN_HOME` environment variable and added interactive mode to help the user with installation. Additionally, they modified the codebase to handle different operating systems, fixed issues related to auto-upgrade, and improved the security aspects of the tool by modifying pattern detection to find more password and DSA key patterns. They also updated the single repo install script.
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harinee/talisman
Oct 2018 - Jun 2024
By hooking into the pre-push hook provided by Git, Talisman validates the outgoing changeset for things that look suspicious - such as authorization tokens and private keys.
Contributions:94 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 8 months
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