Harish Jakkal

Harish Jakkal has a wealth of experience in product management, solutions architecture, and software engineering. In 2022, they began working as the Director of Solutions Architecture for Xage Security. Prior to this, they worked as Principal Product Manager for Sam's Club from 2021 to 2018, as Director of Solutions Architecture for Cloudinary from 2018 to 2015, and as Senior Technical Product Manager/Architect for Shape Security from 2015 to 2010. During this time, they managed the product roadmap and prioritization for a software development kit (SDK) based solution to secure API's used by native mobile applications against fraud and abuse, led the design and deployment of the first cloud-based/hosted offering of the Shape's bot and fraud mitigation service, and hosted offering facilitated new go-to-market strategy. From 2010 to 2009, Harish worked as a Software Quality Engineer Intern for DreamWorks Animation and a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) Intern for MySpace.

Harish Jakkal obtained a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from Walchand Institute of Technology, Solapur in 2008. Harish then went on to pursue a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southern California from 2008 to 2010. In 2020, they completed the Become a Chief of Staff with Brian Rumao course from LinkedIn. Harish also obtained an AI for Everyone certification from Coursera in April 2019 and an AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in December 2019. Additionally, they are currently enrolled in the Global Information Assurance Certification's GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC) course.