Kunal Anand
Chief Product Officer at F5
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKunal Anand is a seasoned technology executive with 17 years of experience building and protecting large-scale web platforms, currently serving as Chief Innovation Officer at F5 after a brief CTO tenure there. He previously scaled security- and product-focused organizations as CTO and CISO at Imperva following his exit as co-founder and CTO of Prevoty, demonstrating a repeatable track record of founding, growing, and exiting security startups. His earlier career spans director-level engineering and security roles across media and social platforms (BBC Worldwide, Gravity.com, Myspace) and hands-on systems work at JPL, giving him rare cross-domain depth from low-level engineering to executive strategy. An active developer at heart, he has contributed to open-source tooling such as ToroPHP, a RESTful PHP router, reflecting continued hands-on contributions to developer ecosystems. Based in California, he blends entrepreneurial grit with product-led innovation and security-first thinking to turn complex technical requirements into market-ready solutions.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Completed 2 semesters (>20 credits) as a high-school student Relevant coursework in astrophysics, computer science, and economics., Completed 2 semesters (>20 credits) as a high-school student Relevant coursework in astrophysics, computer science, and economics. at Stanford UniversityLondon School of Economics and Political ScienceBachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration and Management, General at Babson College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
api-rest10
rest-api10
php10
api-design10
restful-api10
architecture9
architectures9
sql7
mysql7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
anandkunal/ToroPHP
Oct 2009 - Sep 2012
Toro is a PHP router for developing RESTful web applications and APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kunal primarily contributed to the development of the `torophp` router, introducing core functionalities and refining its structure. Their work involved modifying the routing logic, including regular expression matching for URL patterns. Furthermore, the user added examples to demonstrate the framework's usage and created a queue example with supporting SQL scripts and handlers.
phprestrestful
anandkunal/ksql
Oct 2016 - Jan 2024
A minimalist SQL
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
sql
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