About

Shrikant Dhanawade is a Director of Product Management in Cloud Security at Qualys. He is a skilled product manager leader with over 15 years of experience in the cybersecurity products and information technology industry. He specializes in cloud security CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, AWS, Azure, GCP cloud automation, and security architecture, DevSecOps, and Java technology architecture. In his current role at Qualys, Shrikant leads the product management team responsible for cloud security products, primarily Cloud Security Posture Management and Cloud Workload Protection Platform. He understands customer expectations in cloud security, performs market and competition analysis, creates and prioritizes a feature backlog, and plans for deliverables in releases. He also performs proof-of-concept and scripting to help solve customer use cases. Prior to Qualys, Shrikant worked at Xoriant, where he led the product management division technically and built security tools for customer applications. He prepared a prototype on Secured SDLC and ensured a variety of application security testing tools were taken into consideration. He also played a role as a technology architecture auditor for DevOps, DevSecOps, and Cloud Security Projects to review and recommend improvements in maturity and security posture. Shrikant has a strong educational background, having graduated from Mumbai University and completed an executive program on global business management from IIM Calcutta. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering from Atharva College of Engineering. Shrikant is skilled in programming languages like Java, Python, and Go Lang in online or offline IDE setup. He has also worked as a product manager, AWS and DevOps solutions architect in Accenture. His relevant experience in the industry is 15.87 years.