Pravin K
Startup Mentor Advisor at Confidential
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPravin K is a startup mentor and advisor with 9 years of focused experience building and scaling SaaS cloud-security products, including founding Cloudneeti (acquired by Zscaler) and later leading engineering and ops at Zscaler. He blends entrepreneurial vision with hands-on technical leadership across CNAPP, CSPM and DSPM domains, consistently delivering secure, scalable platforms from design through deployment. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he has driven product, engineering, operations, and customer success while optimizing processes to accelerate revenue growth. His background includes fintech and delivery leadership at Barclays and Capgemini, giving him deep experience managing regulatory, risk and large stakeholder programs. A Stanford alumnus in Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership, he’s known for cultivating creative, problem-solving teams that bridge product strategy and execution. Less obvious: he pairs a mechanical engineering foundation with startup-scale cloud security expertise, enabling a systems-thinking approach to product architecture and operational resilience.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
GNIIT, GNIIT at NIIT PuneBE Mechanical, BE Mechanical at Shivaji UniversityInnovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership at Stanford University
Github Skills (18)
azure9
governance9
arm9
microsoft-graph8
bicep7
arm-templates7
pci7
aws5
security4
compliance3
azure-security3
microsoft3
infrastructure3
thegraph2
paas2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Cloudneeti/docs_cloudneeti
May 2017 - Jun 2021
cloudneeti documentation
Contributions:20 commits, 8 PRs, 20 pushes in 4 years 2 months
governancecloudneetiazure
kulpravin/cloudneeti
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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