Hemanth Srinivasan
Chief Security Officer at Kentik
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolHemanth Srinivasan is a seasoned cybersecurity executive and Chief Security Officer with 18+ years of experience leading Security, Privacy and Enterprise IT across startups and large enterprises from the Bay Area. He has built security and privacy programs from the ground up—most notably securing a cloud and device platform serving 40M+ smart homes and achieving ISO27001/ISO27701 in 18 months—while positioning security as a sales enabler. Comfortable both strategically and technically, he blends threat modeling, secure SDLC, cloud/IoT hardening, and automation to scale sheilding across product and corporate domains. A people-first leader and mentor, he emphasizes trust, secure defaults, and developer experience to drive adoption and measurable risk reduction. He holds CISSP, CCSK, advanced security credentials from Stanford, and product strategy training from Kellogg, bringing uncommon cross-discipline fluency between product, privacy, and engineering.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityGithub contributions (5)
108bots/threatmodel-as-code
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
108bots/lottery-jackpot
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 months
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