Sudeep Padiyar
Vice President Of Products at Proofpoint
Los Altos, California, United States
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Top SchoolSudeep Padiyar is a product and security leader with nine years of focused experience building and scaling enterprise security products, currently leading Generative AI security as Vice President of Products at Proofpoint. He has a track record of translating cutting-edge cloud-native and API security technologies into market-ready products—most recently shaping API runtime protection, fraud prevention, and GenAI safety at Traceable and Acuvity. Comfortable at the intersection of product, go-to-market, and technical due diligence, Sudeep advises startups and investors while driving integrations across WAFs, SIEM/SOAR, CSPM, and automation ecosystems. His background spans deep networking and platform work at Cisco and Palo Alto Networks, giving him uncommon hands-on expertise in private-cloud fabric insertion and Kubernetes-native security. Based in Los Altos, he pairs technical rigor (M.S. in Computer Science) with business acumen from a marketing/management degree, enabling pragmatic product strategies that resonate with enterprise buyers. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to convert distributed tracing and ML insights into high-value fraud and abuse detections at the API layer.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University at AlbanyMaster's Degree, Marketing, General Management, Master's Degree, Marketing, General Management at Santa Clara University Leavey School of BusinessBachelor's Degree, Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electronics Engineering at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (6)
go9
docker9
kubernetes9
scheduling8
mesos6
kubernetes-monitoring6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
spadiyar/juice-shop
May 2022 - Nov 2024
OWASP Juice Shop: Probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application
Contributions:37 PRs, 38 pushes, 41 branches in 2 years 6 months
juicesecurityweb-applicationowaspshop
spadiyar/crAPI
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
completely ridiculous API (crAPI)
Contributions:27 PRs, 37 pushes, 36 branches in 2 years 7 months
rest-apiapinodejstodoist
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