Jimmy Malhan
Founder & CEO at Pretense
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Malhan is a founder and investor with eight years of hands-on experience building secure, compliant production systems across healthcare, fintech, and consumer platforms. He founded Pretense to stop proprietary code from leaking to AI tools, shipping a local proxy that protects data without changing developer workflows and scaling to 500+ developers in open beta. Previously he led engineering through a $63B acquisition at Allergan Aesthetics, maintaining 99.9% uptime and first-pass SOC2 Type II compliance under HIPAA and pharma constraints. His background spans CTO and senior engineering roles where he moved monoliths to microservices on AWS and operationalized security and compliance for mission-critical workflows. Based in Los Angeles with an MBA in IT Management, he blends operator instincts with product-led security and a knack for shipping pragmatic, low-friction tooling that slips seamlessly into developer toolchains. An often-overlooked strength: he builds security that preserves developer speed rather than slowing it down.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology Management, Master's degree, Information Technology Management at California Lutheran University
English, English
Github Skills (46)
mongoose9
admin-interface9
ray8
optimization8
python8
reinforcement-learning8
typescript8
tracks8
parallel8
expressjs8
microsoft7
electron7
pytorch7
vscode-extension7
remote-management7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jimmymalhan/AWS-DevOps
Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
jimmymalhan/code_master_platform
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Algorithm and Data Structure in Python on various platforms
Contributions:668 commits, 2 PRs, 530 pushes in 2 years 2 months
pythoncppplatformsdata-structure-and-algorithmcompetitive-programming
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