Srikanth Veeraraghavan

Srikanth Veeraraghavan has extensive work experience in the field of security and compliance. Srikanth co-founded Expent in 2020 and is currently involved in its operations. Prior to that, they worked as the Head of Security, Compliance, and Privacy at Autodesk Construction Solutions from March 2019 to October 2020. In this role, they successfully integrated all the products and companies within the ACS business unit into the Autodesk Security Program.

Before joining Autodesk, Srikanth was the Head of Security, Compliance, and Privacy at PlanGrid from June 2017 to October 2020. During their tenure, they built up the security program and teams at PlanGrid and played a key role in defining the company's security and privacy strategy.

Prior to PlanGrid, Srikanth worked as a Senior Security Engineer at Zendesk from January 2014 to June 2017. Srikanth was responsible for various aspects of security, including network security, incident response, infrastructure security, fraud and abuse, IT security, bug bounty, and compliance. Srikanth also played a pivotal role in implementing a DMARC reject policy on behalf of Zendesk's customers.

Before Zendesk, Srikanth served as a Security Researcher at Vectra AI from May 2013 to December 2013. Srikanth'sresponsibilities included reviewing, analyzing, and isolating security vulnerabilities for research purposes, as well as conducting in-depth analysis of software vulnerabilities.

Prior to Vectra AI, Srikanth worked at McAfee from February 2012 to May 2013 as a Security Researcher. In this role, they were responsible for layer seven protocol parsing, writing signatures for McAfee's Network Intrusion Prevention System, and conducting vulnerability research and threat analysis.

Srikanth started their career as an Information Security Intern at Cigital, Inc (A Part of Synopsys) from May 2011 to August 2011. During this internship, they performed manual and automated penetration testing of web and mobile applications, as well as source code reviews.

Before their internship, Srikanth worked as a Web Programmer at The Johns Hopkins University from September 2010 to May 2011, where they were involved in the development of the website www.panamath.org.

Srikanth Veeraraghavan completed their Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Vellore Institute of Technology between the years 2006 and 2010. Subsequently, they pursued a Masters degree in Information Security from The Johns Hopkins University from 2010 to 2011.