Rashmi Akanksha Mathur

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CTO at Cinder Pay · Application security

Cinder Pay
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
Jadavpur University
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Overview

Based in Bengaluru. I lead application security at Cinder Pay. Brought on-call pages for product security down from 22 a week to 1. Led the migration of 55 services to cloud security. Before that: Myntra and Microsoft. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Second opinions on cloud security decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on threat modeling
Please don't message about
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Offshore staffing offers

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Skills
cloud securitySASTBurp SuiteAppSecthreat modeling
HiringHiring for a role
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Building out product security at Cinder Pay: data engineers wanted in Bengaluru

Role
Data engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
₹36-90 LPA
Team
Product security, 14 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp ₹22-59 LPA. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
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Looking for a technical co-founder for GST reconciliation for LatAm marketplaces

The idea
GST reconciliation for LatAm marketplaces
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
8 years in application security
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Bengaluru or remote

I bring 19 years of application security (currently Cinder Pay). Ideally you've led a design team. Full-time from day one.

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Experience

  1. CTO
    Mar 2025 - Present
    Cinder Pay · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped 17 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
    • Moved 94% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Built the experimentation framework 39 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Staff Security Engineer
    Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
    Myntra · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 44% in two quarters.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Jun 2020 - Dec 2023
    Microsoft · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 32 minutes to under 6.
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 46% in two quarters.
  4. Staff Security Engineer
    Sep 2016 - Jun 2020
    Hartwell Technologies · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Grew the product security team from 3 to 12 engineers.
    • Shipped 10 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2013 - Sep 2016
    ITC · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Wrote the SAST service that now handles 59 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. Jadavpur University
    B.E., Mathematics
    2003 - 2007

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