About
Pushkar Joglekar is a Sr. Cloud Security Engineer II currently working at Credit Karma. 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 this current role, he worked on securing massive Kubernetes deployments at Visa (End User) and VMware Tanzu (Service Provider), playing a dual role of a security architect and engineer. 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
Cloud Security Engineering (Oct 2022 - Present)
- Sr. Cloud Security Engineer II
- Design, Develop and Maintain cloud native security solutions, frameworks and platforms
- Technical Lead for driving cross-org collaboration to reduce risk & improve security posture of our Google Cloud footprint
- One of the trusted senior engineers responsible for secure design reviews of GenAI and Data Security usecases
Past Affiliations
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
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
- 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
Patents
- (3 Citations) Systems and Methods for generating behavior profiles for new entities
- (18 Citations) Self-learning alerting and anomaly detection in monitoring systems
- (8 Citations) Microservice adaptive security hardening
- (4 Citation) Real-time entity anomaly detection
- (8 Citations) Model shift prevention through machine learning
- (53 Citations) Systems and methods to secure api platforms
- Proactive defense of untrustworthy machine learning system
- Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Authorizing a Transaction
Note: 3 granted, 5 pending
Awards
Publications
Kubernetes Project Contributions
Official Blogs
Official Documentation
Project Enhancements
Speaking Engagements