Rahul Goutham Subramanian

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VP of Engineering at Willow Mobility | ex-Postman

Willow Mobility
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
15+ years experience
IIIT Hyderabad
English, Hindi, Telugu
Open to work
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Overview

VP of Engineering at Willow Mobility, focused on application security. Grew the product security team from 6 to 18 engineers. Moved 93% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Postman and InMobi. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

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  • Roles in application security
  • Questions about application security
  • Second opinions on SAST decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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Skills
AppSecthreat modelingIAMOWASPcloud securitySAST
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Security Engineer roles in food delivery - Hyderabad or remote

Target roles
Security Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Logistics, Climate tech
Work mode
Remote
Available
Immediately
Work authorization
Indian citizen
What I'm looking for
Scope to lead application security work, with a manager who gives direct feedback.
Not interested in
Pure people management

27 years in application security. Strongest at SAST and AppSec. Available immediately.

Hyderabad, Indiathreat modelingiamsast
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Aug 2025 - Present
    Willow Mobility · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 14 minutes to under 3.
    • Shipped 16 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
  2. Director of Engineering
    May 2022 - Jun 2025
    Postman · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 4.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Jul 2018 - May 2022
    InMobi · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Shipped 7 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 12 a week to 3.
  4. Staff Security Engineer
    Dec 2014 - Jul 2018
    BigBasket · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 32 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Moved 91% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Jan 2012 - Dec 2014
    Salesforce · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Sit on 4 boards.
    • Backed 39 founders at pre-seed and seed.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from product security
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling application security.

Write-up: application security in practice
2024

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

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Education

  1. IIIT Hyderabad
    B.Tech, Computer Engineering
    1994 - 1998

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