Padma Poornima Ranganathan

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Senior Engineering Manager, Ashford Health - Burp Suite · SAST · OWASP

Ashford Health
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
SRM Institute of Science and Technology
English, Hindi, Telugu
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Overview

Currently at Ashford Health, where I lead application security with a team of 44. Led the migration of 58 services to OWASP. Shipped 17 launches on the product security team without a rollback. Most at home with Burp Suite and cloud security.

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Skills
Burp Suitecloud securityexperimentationSASTOWASPAppSec
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need a commercial co-founder: procurement in LatAm

The idea
Procurement in LatAm
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
14 years in application security
Looking for
Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Hyderabad or remote

I bring 18 years of application security (currently Ashford Health). Ideally you've led a design team. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Hyderabad, India · remote OKexperimentationsastburp suite
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    May 2026 - Present
    Ashford Health · 5 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Grew the product security team from 5 to 24 engineers.
    • Wrote the OWASP service that now handles 24 million requests a day.
  2. Security Engineer
    Feb 2023 - May 2026
    Hindustan Unilever · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Wrote the Burp Suite service that now handles 76 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 3.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2021 - Feb 2023
    Capgemini · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 30 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  4. Staff Security Engineer
    Dec 2018 - Apr 2021
    Zoho · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Moved 73% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2016 - Dec 2018
    Asian Paints · 2 yr 8 mo · Contract · Hyderabad, India
    • Moved 95% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Led the migration of 42 services to cloud security.

Projects

Application security benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Burp Suite and SAST on real workloads.

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Education

  1. SRM Institute of Science and Technology
    B.Tech, Mathematics
    2003 - 2007

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