Abhinav Hemant Bhargava

Senior Security Engineer at Flipkart · Application security

Flipkart

Chandigarh, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

3+ years experience

IIT Madras

English, Hindi, Punjabi

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Overview

3 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Flipkart, where I work on the product security team. Grew the product security team from 6 to 21 engineers. Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 379ms to 40ms. Most at home with Kubernetes and threat modeling. Coffee nerd.

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Advice on application security
People who want to build this with me
Working sessions on threat modeling
Second opinions on Kubernetes decisions
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IAMcloud securitythreat modelingOWASPKubernetes

Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

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Looking for an operations co-founder for micro-pensions for logistics fleets

The idea: Looking for an operations co-founder for micro-pensions for logistics fleets
Stage: Early revenue
I bring: 9 years in application security
Looking for: Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment: Full-time after funding
Location: Chandigarh or remote

I bring 3 years of application security (currently Flipkart). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Chandigarh, Indiacloud securitykubernetesowasp

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Office hours for early-stage teams: application security and Kubernetes

Topics: application security, OWASP, IAM
Format: Async reviews
Terms: Paid
Capacity: A few async reviews a month
Best for: First-time founders

3 years of application security. One call a month or async reviews.

Chandigarh, Indiaowaspthreat modelingiam

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Experience

Senior Security Engineer
Oct 2023 - Present
Flipkart · 3 yr · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
- Moved 91% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Reduced cloud spend on product security by 19% in two quarters.

Projects

Write-up: application security in practice

2024

A long-form guide to application security for people starting out.

Conference talk: lessons from product security

2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling application security.

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Education

IIT Madras
B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
2019 - 2023

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