About

Pushkar Joglekar is a Principal Security Engineer @ Broadcom focussing on VMware Kubernetes Distribution and Releases. He is also a Kubernetes security maintainer.

Since 2019, he feels incredibly fortunate to have written the security chapters in Nigel Poulton’s “The Kubernetes Book” which he looks forward to updating every year.

Prior to his current role, he has leveraged his expertise to secure massive planet-scale private and public cloud infrastructure, built to run sensitive workloads at End User companies like Credit Karma and Visa. He is also the co-creator of award winning container runtime security tool: MASHUP

In his free time, he loves taking photos, watching cricket and firmly believes that Chai fixes everything!

Pushkar is based in San Francisco Bay Area!

Current Affiliations

Broadcom

VMware Cloud Foundation (Nov 2025 - Present)

Principal Security Engineer
- Technical Lead responsible to meet and exceed security standards for our Kubernetes product releases

Kubernetes

Among Top 1-2% contributors worldwide since inception
SIG (Special Interest Group) Security
- Tooling Sub-Project Lead
Associate Security Response Committee Member (May 2022 - Feb 2023)

Past Affiliations

Credit Karma

Cloud Security Engineering (Oct 2022 - Nov 2025)

Sr. Cloud Security Engineer II
- Technical Lead for driving cross-org collaboration to improve security posture of our Google Cloud footprint:
  - GenAI: Entrusted to be one of the few engineers to perform security design reviews for LLM usecases
  - Vulnerability Management: Reached 0 critical and high Risks within 90 days through strong bias for risk prioritization, auto-remediation with human control and native integration in Developer Experience
  - Data Security: Reinvigorated and operationalized a couple of stale security controls to save company 2% of security budget (~100k) by methodically resolving technical debt and redesigning it for 99.99% availability
  - Containers: Co-authored a technical design with platform engineering to migrate away from a deprecated k8s security feature without any impact to site availability or security posture

CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation)

Among Top 2-3% contributors worldwide since inception
TAG (Technical Advisory Group) Security
- Tech Lead (Jan 2022 - June 2023)
- Co-Chair (June 2023 - July 2024)
Program Committee
- Cloud Native SecurityCon Europe 2022
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America: Security + Identity + Policy Track
  - Member: 2022, 2021
  - Track Co-Chair: 2022

VMware Tanzu

Kubernetes Upstream Engineering (March 2021 - October 2022)

Sr. Security Engineer → Staff Security Engineer
- Working across Product, Compliance, and Engineering teams to move security left and up by balancing customer escalations with opensource contributions that enhance security posture of downstream products

Visa Inc.

Security Architecture & Engineering (June 2015 - March 2021)

Information Security Analyst → Sr. Cybersecurity / Staff Engineer → Manager
- Dual role of architect and engineer lead for securing containers, secrets and devops:
  - Led a team of 3-4 engineers building award winning container security product
  - Designed secure by default container platforms processing millions of transactions per day
  - Evangelized security topics via online/in-person speaking engagements from executives to developers
  - Deployed Secrets Mgmt. system with 99.999% availability serving 100+ apps

Carnegie Mellon University

Graduate Degree (MS) in Information Technology - Information Networking Institute (Aug 2013 - May 2015)
Graduate Teaching Assistant (Aug 2014 - May 2015)

ACI Worldwide Inc.

Associate Software Engineer - Payments (June 2011 - July 2013)
- Worked on Development, Testing and Documentation for Mobile and Retail Payments applications
- Mentored 4 new graduate engineers to set them up for success in a month from joining the team