Kapil P.

About Kapil P.

With more than 24 years of experience, Kapil is a seasoned engineering leader with a track record of delivering high-quality, highly performant, scalable, and secure products & platforms. Prior to joining TIAA, Kapil led Storage Infra and Security Technology groups at Twitter. He has also held various engineering leadership positions at Amazon, Bank of America, and Hewlett Packard. Kapil has an experience working both as a technology and people leader to build world class solutions in the field of customer authentication, platform security and storage systems. Kapil is an inventor and has 10+ patents in Auth domain. Technical areas of expertise- Distributed SystemsSecurity & Privacy by design, by defaultAuthentication & Authorization (Both customer auth and service2service)API SecurityMicroservices, ContainersAI SecurityData ScienceStorage systems (OLTP)Digital TransformationOpen sourceData Structures & Algorithms

Experience

1. Managing Director Sr Cybersecurity Exec Security Software Engineering

   TIAA

   Feb 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Lead \"Security Shared Services\" engineering group which comprises of 6 charters/teams:1) API Security - responsible for enabling security-by-design; and embedding security-by-default for client facing or business apis/applications. Includes securing customer auth, service auth, microservices, mesh, developing core security libs and apis, etc. 2) Cyber for AI - Secure usage of AI/GenAI across the company for both home grown GenAI use cases and vendor tooling.3) AI For Cyber: Use AI and Data Science as a first citizen, to build Cyber defenses and bring efficiencies by automation. 4) DevSecOps - Shifting left and delivering across 3 sub-charters, ApplicationSecOps, PlatformSecOps, and DataSecOps.5) Encryption & Key Management - protects our company’s confidential or highly confidential data whether at rest, in-transit or in use. Includes PKI, CLM KMS, kind of solutions.6) EIAM (as of Q4, 2024)- leading both General and Privilege access management solution deployments.

Education

• Punjabi University

  B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Software Engineering
• Struts
• Weblogic
• Soap
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Sso
• Jwt
• Xml
• Siteminder
• Spring Security
• Web Services
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Security
• Enterprise Architecture
• Oauth
• Spring
• Mobile Applications
• Software Development
• Architectures
• J2ee Application Development
• Java
• Tomcat
• Apache Cas
• Websphere
• Design Patterns
• Architecture
• Spring Framework
• Unix
• Soa
• Problem Solving
• Sdlc
• Data Structures
• Solution Architecture