About

Shirish Padalkar is a Director of Engineering and Product Security with over 13 years of industry experience. He is passionate about software quality and security, and enjoys building distributed systems using microservices architecture, eXtreme Programming practices with agile teams. With a proven track record of delivering systems without any high severity vulnerability by building secure continuous delivery pipelines, Shirish is currently serving as the Director of Engineering at medly. He previously held the position of Principal Engineer at medly and Lead Consultant at thoughtworks, where he built and led distributed agile teams and architected high-performance distributed systems. Shirish holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Pune, where he gained expertise in a variety of technologies, including Javascript, Python, AWS, Terraform, Spring, Microservices, DevOps, infra, ReactJS, Java, CI/CD, and Kubernetes. As a speaker at conferences and meetups, Shirish has shared his expertise and experience with others in the industry. With 15.04 years of relevant experience, he is a talented and knowledgeable leader in the field of engineering and product security.