Om Moolchandani
Founder & CISO CPO - Tuskira.ai
Bolingbrook, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOm Moolchandani is a cybersecurity founder and product leader with over 18 years of experience building proactive cloud and DevSecOps defenses across industrial, IoT, and enterprise domains. As Co‑Founder, CISO/CTO of Accurics he architected a patented attack‑path prediction platform and led the company through a $160M acquisition by Tenable, where he continued to drive next‑generation breach‑prediction features. He now leads Tuskira.ai as Founder and CISO/CPO, focused on preemptive defense and response for cloud native environments. Om combines hands‑on engineering (notably contributions to the popular Terrascan IaC scanning project) with strategic product vision, go‑to‑market execution, and partnership building with graph and analytics vendors. He has a proven record of shrinking remediation timelines through remediation‑as‑code and delivering first‑of‑its‑kind compliance attestations for critical cloud systems. Trained in computer science with business strategy and IoT specializations from Harvard and MIT‑Sloan, he blends technical depth with market savvy to evangelize new security paradigms.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Maths Physics Chemistry, Maths Physics Chemistry at Christ Church Boys Higher Secondary SchoolDisruptive Strategy Business Strategy and Product Management, Disruptive Strategy Business Strategy and Product Management at Harvard Business School OnlineRealizing Meaningful Change Business Leadership, Realizing Meaningful Change Business Leadership at GE - Jack Welch Leadership Development Center, Crotonville, NYBachelor's of Computer Application Computer Science, Bachelor's of Computer Application Computer Science at Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication, BhopalInternet of Things: Business Implications and Opportunities Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services, Internet of Things: Business Implications and Opportunities Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services at MIT Sloan School of ManagementMaster of Computer Applications Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications Computer Science at Rajiv Gandhi Technical University
Github Skills (14)
terraformer10
infrastructure-as-code10
go10
devops10
terraform10
security9
ias9
security-txt9
security-scan9
cloud-security9
devsecops8
testing8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tenable/terrascan
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 21 commits, 13 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Om primarily focused on improving code quality and project maintainability within the `tenable/terrascan` repository. They addressed linting and style issues, ensuring consistent code formatting. Furthermore, the user introduced enhancements by implementing features, such as allowing configuration files for global policy configurations, and fixing testing arguments, thereby contributing to the project's overall stability and usability. The user also addressed an issue with submodule paths and recognized `metadata.generateName` functionality.
cloudsecurityrisksastcompliancecloud-security
acc-jon/terrascan
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure.
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
riskinfrastructure-managementcompliancecloud-securityaws
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