PrajalĀ Kulkarni
Chief Information Security Officer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPrajal Kulkarni is an experienced information security leader with 11 years in the industry, currently serving as Chief Information Security Officer at Groww in Bengaluru since 2023. He has deep hands-on and strategic security experience across major Indian tech firms, including multi-year tenures at Flipkart and roles at PayPal, Cleartrip and PwC, where he progressed from engineering to leadership. Prajal specializes in building and scaling security programs for fast-growing consumer platforms, balancing technical architecture, risk management and business enablement. His appointment to the BlackHat Advisory Board for the Financial Summit highlights recognition of his expertise beyond product security into broader financial and industry-level threat discussions. Trained as an electronics and telecommunication engineer, he brings a hardware-aware mindset to software security, helping teams anticipate cross-layer vulnerabilities.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
10th, 10th at The New Educational InstituteB.E Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, B.E Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering at Goa Engineering College - Government of GoaPre - University, Pre - University at Shree Damodar Higher Secondary School of Science
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Github Skills (52)
scanner10
postman-collection10
penetration-testing10
python10
testing10
watchdog10
security-automation10
security10
security-testing10
owasp10
api10
rest-api10
sdlc10
scanning10
vulnerability9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
flipkart-incubator/watchdog
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Watchdog - A Comprehensive Security Scanning and a Vulnerability Management Tool.
Contributions:83 commits, 4 PRs, 73 pushes in 2 months
bugbountyvulnerability-managementvulnerability-scannersmanagement-toolnessus
prajal/subdomainfinder
Apr 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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