Deepa Rhea Agarwal

Senior Engineering Manager at Kakao | ex-Canva

Kakao

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · MYT (UTC+8)

13+ years experience

Peking University

English, Malay

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Overview

Currently at Kakao, where I lead application security with a team of 11. Grew the product security team from 4 to 28 engineers. Built the experimentation framework 28 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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threat modelingIAMcloud securityBurp Suite

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closes in 3 months

Open to advising Series A teams on threat modeling

Topics: application security, cloud security, Burp Suite
Format: Calls
Terms: Equity
Capacity: Two calls a month
Best for: First-time founders

13 years of application security. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

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Experience

Senior Engineering Manager
Jan 2025 - Present
Kakao · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
- Moved 84% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Senior Security Engineer
Oct 2022 - Sep 2024
Canva · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Grew the product security team from 6 to 12 engineers.
- Moved 70% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Security Engineer
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
Hyundai Motor · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Reduced cloud spend on product security by 41% in two quarters.
- Wrote the threat modeling service that now handles 14 million requests a day.
Senior Security Engineer
Feb 2017 - Dec 2020
DBS Bank · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Led the migration of 77 services to cloud security.
Security Engineer
Oct 2013 - Feb 2017
Sony · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Moved 87% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

Peking University
BSc, Computer Engineering
2008 - 2012

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