Headline

Head of QA | CISO@ Cashfree Payments | Quality Engineering, Security Governance, Risk & Compliance in Fintech | DevSecOps & AI Risk | ex-Swiggy, ex-Meesho

About

I lead security, risk, and compliance at Cashfree Payments, alongside Quality and SDET across the platform. My work covers governance, regulatory and privacy compliance, enterprise risk, incident response, and third party risk, and our security management system is reviewed at board level. Day to day, that means keeping us audit ready across RBI, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, NPCI, DPDP, and GDPR, maintaining our risk register, and working with engineering and product so security is part of how we build rather than a step at the end. I've brought DevSecOps and AI risk validation into our pipelines and lead a 25+ person security and SDET team. I started out in engineering and quality, which shapes how I work: practical, close to the build, and focused on helping teams ship safely without slowing down. Areas I work in: security governance · enterprise risk · regulatory and privacy compliance · incident response · third party risk · DevSecOps · AI risk · payments

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

Work experience

Senior Manager, Security & SDET (CISO) at Cashfree Payments, Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I lead security, risk, and compliance at Cashfree Payments, along with Quality and SDET across the platform. Our security management system is reviewed at board level. •Own security governance and the enterprise ISMS, with an executive risk review cadence • Keep us audit ready across RBI, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, NPCI, DPDP, and GDPR, across our payment licences • Run enterprise risk, incident response, and third party risk, with a risk register mapped to NIST CSF and ISO 27001 • Manage the security tooling stack and budget, and contribute to business continuity and DR planning • Build DevSecOps and AI risk validation into CI/CD, and lead a 30+ person security, quality, and assurance team • Improved release velocity while strengthening security, cutting cycle time by around 60%

SDET-IV at Meesho, Jan 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, At Meesho, I worked in a hyper-growth environment where scale and speed were constant challenges. I owned quality engineering for backend-heavy platforms supporting sellers and suppliers, with a strong focus on automation and CI/CD alignment.

Lead SDET at Swiggy, Oct 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos, Hybrid, Swiggy was where I transitioned from an individual contributor to a quality and people leader. I owned quality for high-impact domains like Ads, Pricing, and Revenue platforms, supporting rapid experimentation at scale.

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test at Swiggy, Aug 2019 - Oct 2019 · 3 mos, On-site

Senior Software Test Engineer at Swiggy, Dec 2018 - Aug 2019 · 9 mos, On-site

QA Engineer at BXB Digital, A Brambles Company, Aug 2017 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked on enterprise-grade platforms where stability and correctness were critical, strengthening my fundamentals in structured QA and regression strategy.

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Capillary Technologies, Apr 2016 - Jul 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Focused on automation and backend testing for data-heavy retail and loyalty platforms, building a strong foundation in scalable test infrastructure.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University