Saishiva K
Staff Product Security Engineer at Whatfix
Greater Bengaluru Area India
Summary
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Top SchoolSaishiva K is a Staff Product Security Engineer with 9 years of experience securing web, thick‑client, and containerized microservices while enabling fast delivery. He blends hands‑on application, container, and DevSecOps expertise—implementing SAST/DAST/SCA, SBOM-driven supply chain checks, and CI/CD guardrails across Kubernetes on AKS. Comfortable with OWASP and NIST frameworks, he automates detection and remediation using tools like Burp, ZAP, Checkmarx, Trivy, Dependency‑Track and custom Python/Bash scripts. A pragmatic collaborator, he partners with dev and DevOps teams to embed secure design and threat modeling early, and has driven measurable developer adoption of secure practices. Based in Bengaluru, he combines enterprise experience from Dell and Virsec with product-focused security leadership at Whatfix, often translating complex security controls into developer-friendly workflows. An automation enthusiast and open-source contributor, he favors practical, repeatable solutions that keep innovation moving.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science Engineering at University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering
English, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (30)
cyclonedx10
ansible-module10
sbom10
software-composition-analysis10
security10
automation10
owasp10
dependency-track10
redfish10
vulnerabilities10
sca10
devops10
gitlab-ci9
devsecops9
java9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
saishivarcr/mylearning
Aug 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
saishivarcr/hello-world
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
testingtest-repository
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