Riddhi Patel

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Director of Engineering, Tata Motors - AppSec · SAST · Burp Suite

Tata Motors
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
Shri Ram College of Commerce
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Overview

Based in Mumbai. I lead application security at Tata Motors. Moved 83% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Most at home with ARM Cortex-M and AppSec. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on application security
  • Working sessions on ARM Cortex-M
  • Questions about application security
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
SASTOWASPIAMARM Cortex-MBurp SuiteAppSec
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for students choosing a first job: application security and ARM Cortex-M

Topics
application security, IAM, SAST
Format
Async reviews
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
First-time founders

24 years of application security. One call a month or async reviews.

Mumbai, India · remote OKiamowaspsast
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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Sep 2023 - Present
    Tata Motors · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 23 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Wrote the OWASP service that now handles 88 million requests a day.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2020 - Sep 2023
    Google · 3 yr 8 mo · Contract · Mumbai, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 43% in two quarters.
    • Moved 72% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Jan 2020
    Mastercard · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Led or co-led 37 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Feb 2015 - Oct 2017
    Airtel · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 36 a week to 3.
  5. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2013 - Nov 2014
    Deloitte · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 635ms to 46ms.

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Education

  1. Shri Ram College of Commerce
    B.Com, Computer Science
    1998 - 2002

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