About

Suryakant Dhakane is a highly experienced Senior Principal Engineer-Security at Druva, with over 10 years of experience in product security and automation engineering. He holds a Master of Science in Information Technology from Aurangabad University and possesses a wide range of technical skills and expertise. Suryakant has a strong understanding of programming languages such as Python, C, C++, and Java, and is well-versed in OWASP top 10/SANS 25 vulnerabilities, including discovery and mitigation/prevention. He has a proven track record of integrating security automation and tools into CI/CD pipelines, as well as developing automation for vulnerability scanning tools and SAST tools. In addition, Suryakant is experienced in test automation tools and frameworks development, possesses a good understanding of PKI and cryptography, and has exposure to standards such as MITRE/NIST, FIPS-140-2, CVE, CVSS, SOC, etc. He has excellent debugging and analysis skills on multiple platforms, and a good knowledge of networking and troubleshooting. Suryakant is passionate about exploring and learning new technologies and tools related to security. He has a successful track record in accomplishing assigned projects within agreed cost/time lines without incidences of overruns. Currently, he works as a Senior Principal Security Engineer at Druva, where he serves as a security architect. Prior to joining Druva, Suryakant worked as a Principal Product Security Engineer at Nuance Communications and as a Member of Technical Staff - Product Security at Riverbed Technology. In both roles, he was responsible for performing security assessments, vulnerability management, security automation and tools integration, security awareness training, and responding to third-party/customer reported security issues. Suryakant holds a Master's Degree in Information Technology from MIT College Aurangabad and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from ShivChhatrapati College Aurangabad. He is skilled in CI/CD, Senior Software Engineering, SDET, test, infra, Python, Java, Software Engineering, C, and integration. With over 10 years of relevant experience, Suryakant is a highly skilled and sought-after security professional.