Jyoti Gulati

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Engineering Manager at Kestrel Energy · Application security

Kestrel Energy
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
SRM Institute of Science and Technology
English, Hindi, Kannada
Open to work
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Overview

Currently at Kestrel Energy, where I lead application security with a team of 47. Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion. Built the experimentation framework 17 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Zerodha and Airtel. I mentor students through university programmes.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in application security
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Requests to fix your code for free

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
IAMBurp SuiteOWASPAppSec
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Security Engineer in AI infrastructure, Bengaluru or hybrid

Target roles
Security Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Fintech, AI infrastructure
Work mode
Remote
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Indian citizen
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns product security end to end.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

11 years in application security. Strongest at IAM and OWASP. Serving notice now.

Bengaluru, Indiaiamowaspburp suite
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Kestrel Energy · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Grew the product security team from 6 to 18 engineers.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 45 minutes to under 5.
    • Built the experimentation framework 12 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Senior Security Engineer
    Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
    Zerodha · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Grew the product security team from 6 to 39 engineers.
  3. Senior Security Engineer
    Jan 2021 - Apr 2023
    Airtel · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Moved 66% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Senior Security Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Jan 2021
    Tech Mahindra · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Led the migration of 15 services to AppSec.
  5. Security Engineer
    Dec 2015 - Oct 2017
    Bosch · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped 26 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
    • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 817ms to 43ms.

Projects

Open-source AppSec toolkit
2026

A small library for application security that 467 developers star on GitHub.

Conference talk: lessons from product security
2026

What went wrong and what worked while scaling application security.

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Education

  1. SRM Institute of Science and Technology
    B.Tech, Information Technology
    2010 - 2014

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