Hi, I’m
Shilpa Kulkarni
Bengaluru
Summary
- Proven track record of delivering complex and highly visible solutions in the Cybersecurity, Fraud Risk, Credit Risk, Compliance, Lending and Analytical infrastructure for the payments and Fintech space by closely working and collaborating with the technical teams and leading cross-functional teams.
- Strong knowledge of Cloud Security, Cybersecurity Controls and Audit regulations.
- Passionate about building products to solve customer problems.
- Applauded for breadth of technical knowledge, connecting people, identifying & solving hidden disagreements and conflict resolution.
Overview
20
years of professional experience
4
years of post-secondary education
1
Certification
Work History
PayPal
Sr. Technical Product Manager 2
01.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Successfully led buy vs buy evaluation for Extended Detect and Response(XDR, EDR), reducing risk by 100%
- Led and delivered strategic tool consolidation within Vulnerability and config Hardening space leading to savings in 2M dollars and improved efficiency of SOC analysts by 40%
- Successfully led buy vs buy evaluation for Cloud Security Posture Management leading to 100% coverage of cloud hardening.
- Accomplished Cloud Workflow Protection on GCP, AWS and Azure cloud for PP and its Subsidiaries.
- Driving product strategy by collaborating and working closely with Office of CISO, Red, Blue and Purple teams on controls assessment and in guardrails of audit & regulatory requirements.
- Successfully lead RateLimiting API integration with Fraud Risk models resulting in reduction of 98K Failed Customer Interaction.
- Developed product strategy for CyberSecurity Data Analytics Platform to address proactive Cyber Risk detection and identified cross-domain opportunities for Fraud risk mitigation resulting in 8% increase in Fraud Account escalations
- Reduced attack vector of ~500K repositories by zeroing in on solution for vulnerability and secrets detection in code.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to understand compliance and governance requirements for building analytics for GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) application leading to a significant 30% enhancement in productivity.
- Successfully onboarded CyberSecurity use cases on Data Analytics Platform that enabled faster incident detection of zero-day vulnerabilities by 3X
- Shepherded cross-functional teams of 75 employees to launch series of trainings on Looker, Jupyter Notebooks, BigQuery resulting in reduction of support time for engineering teams by 40%
PayPal
Sr. Technical Product Manager 1
01.2019 - 01.2022
Job overview
- Presented quarterly executive summary on Build vs Buy, Product Strategy to Senior Executives driving procurements for 2 out of 3 product evaluations.
- Led and devised key application security criteria to secure PayPal's Application schemas leading to reduction of bug bounty issues found in external-facing PayPal APIs from ~12(in 2019) to 0(2020) and saving thousands of dollars.
- Drive developer community engagement for adoption of new security initiatives by representing AppSec org in multiple different forums such as tech expo, security meet-ups, and cybersecurity awareness booths.
- Automate repetitive vulnerability tracking, management and triaging processes. Time taken to analyze API was reduced from 60+ minutes to under 5 mins for Engineering team.
PayPal
Member of Technical Staff, Credit Risk
09.2014 - 06.2019
Job overview
- Accomplished~3% increase in Total Payment Volume for PayPal credit Buy Now Pay Later product by designing and developing Risk decision microservice for Pay after delivery product (PAD) using a microservice architecture with Spring Boot by working closely and collaborating extensively with Policy partners and cross-functional teams
- Design, develop and integrate Risk infra's distributed compute service by working closely and collaborating with cross-functional teams- Credit, Merchant, Consumer and Data Modelling teams to launch on-time and on- budget.
- Created tools to track key security adoption metrics using Django, Flask and Marshmallow for audit and tracking purposes for senior management.
Spirent Technologies
Staff Software Engineer
03.2013 - 06.2014
Job overview
- Worked closely with business in getting and prioritising requirements. Translating requirements and working on grooming stories with PD team.
- Lead quality team in Sunnyvale and Beijing for Spirent’s new initiative to combine legacy Avalanche L4-L7 capabilities into new web-based interface.
- Mentored junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices and fostering professional growth
Visa
Senior Software Engineer
02.2012 - 03.2013
Job overview
- Automated new API's by using Java based test framework, TestNG and Maven build tool.
- Performed backend testing of Webservices in both SCMP and SOAP protocols.
IronPlanet
Senior Software Engineer
06.2011 - 06.2012
Job overview
- Automated new features of IronPlanet's webpage by using Selenium, TestNG.
- Actively involved in performance testing of website using Grinder.
- Writing unit tests and perform bug fixes of IronPlanet's backend
modules.
YahooSunnyvale, California
Sr. QA Engineer
06.2010 - 06.2011
Investment Technology Group
Software Engineer
06.2007 - 06.2010
Job overview
- Developed test framework to test incoming Payload for FIX(Financial Information eXchange) protocol.
- Wrote and maintained test scripts for entire TRITON application using QTP 9.2.
Mphasis TechnologiesBengaluru, Karnataka
QA Engineer
09.2003 - 03.2006
Education
Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityBVB College Of Engineering And Technology
Bachelor of Science from Engineering
07.1998 - 09.2002
Skills
Data Analytics: Visualization/Reporting/Dashboard (Looker, Jupyter Lab/ Notebook, Splunk), Product AnalyticsCloud and Big Data: Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery)Programming Languages: SQL, Python
Other Technologies: Git, Github, Jupyter Lab/Notebook, Jira, UAT testing, Miro, SIEM
Managed Product Backlog
Draft Product Requirements
Risk mitigation planning
Interpersonal Communication
Critical Thinking
Excellent Communication
Agile/Scrum
Cloud Security, Network Security, Application Security
Affiliations
Lets Teach English - English teaching for Vernacular background high school students
Certification
Big Data Modeling and Management Systems - University of California, San Diego
Timeline
Sr. Technical Product Manager 2
PayPal
01.2022 - Current
Big Data Modeling and Management Systems - University of California, San Diego
11-2019
Sr. Technical Product Manager 1
PayPal
01.2019 - 01.2022
Member of Technical Staff, Credit Risk
PayPal
09.2014 - 06.2019
Staff Software Engineer
Spirent Technologies
03.2013 - 06.2014
Senior Software Engineer
Visa
02.2012 - 03.2013
Senior Software Engineer
IronPlanet
06.2011 - 06.2012
Sr. QA Engineer
Yahoo
06.2010 - 06.2011
Software Engineer
Investment Technology Group
06.2007 - 06.2010
QA Engineer
Mphasis Technologies
09.2003 - 03.2006
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bachelor of Science from Engineering
07.1998 - 09.2002