Nihar V.

About Nihar V.

Accomplished Senior Security Engineer with 10+ years of experience across application, cloud, and AI security, specializing in enterprise AI risk management and secure AI enablement at scale. Proven track record of leading cross-functional security initiatives, owning critical enterprise risk remediation, and building automation, processes, and training to scale security programs without impeding innovation

Experience

1. Senior Security Engineer

   Coinbase

   May 2022 — Present · New York, NY, US

   AI Security Leadership Strategic Leadership: Co-led the establishment of a cross-functional AI Security working group spanning Security, Privacy, Legal, and Governance to define Coinbase’s enterprise AI security strategy. Drove alignment, risk prioritization, and delivery of enterprise-grade controls that materially strengthened the organization’s AI security posture. Enterprise Risk Ownership: Owned remediation of a critical enterprise risk related to Model Context Protocol (MCP), reducing the risk rating from Critical to Medium within aggressive timelines. Led end-to-end execution, building capabilities for visibility, automated guardrails, and governance mechanisms to ensure compliance with policy Enterprise Policy Authorship: Core Security lead in multi-team efforts to author and maintain organizational AI policies, standards and guidelines. Security Automation, Tooling & Operational Excellence Operational Efficiency: Established scalable review processes, including a fast-track process for AI tool and service experimentation, enabling rapid innovation while maintaining strong security controls AI Agents & Scalability: Architected internal tooling leveraging AI agents to handle lower-risk security reviews and various other mundane tasks. Custom Tooling: Developed a custom Burp Suite extension to automate request signing for the API gateway, eliminating repetitive manual tasks and saving significant analyst hours daily. Mentorship, Evangelism & Training Mentoring: Mentored and on-boarded junior security engineers, enabling independent execution of AI security reviews and significantly scaling the team’s ability to support expanding AI adoption. Served as a Security Coach and trusted advisor to Security Champions. AI Security Training: Authored the blueprint for internal AI security training, enabling consistent education on secure AI development and accelerating adoption of approved patterns across engineering teams.

Education

• K.S Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering

  2006 — 2010

• Syracuse University

  Master's degree, Information Management & Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Information Security

  2010 — 2012

Skills

• Burp Suite
• Risk Assessment
• Vulnerability Scanning
• Web Application Security
• Computer Security
• Android
• Information Security
• Ceh
• Data Security
• Reverse Engineering
• Code Review
• Penetration Testing
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Network Security
• Information Security Management
• Wireshark
• Security
• Nessus
• Security Architecture Design
• Social Engineering
• Ibm Rational Appscan
• Application Security
• Security+
• Vulnerability Management
• Mobile Security