Sagar C.

About Sagar C.

Experienced security leader, architect, and engineer with over 19 years of proven expertise in designing and implementing comprehensive security solutions. Adept at driving organizational security strategies across diverse sectors, including software, endpoint, medical device, and product security. Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional teams, securing critical infrastructure, and delivering robust security architectures that align with business objectives.

Experience

1. Distinguished Engineer

   Trellix

   Dec 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Define and own the long-term technical vision and security architecture for EDR/XDR platforms, ensuring scalable and adversary-resilient detection.• Serve as the highest technical authority on detection efficacy, establishing organization-wide standards for ATT & CK coverage, accuracy, and false-positive reduction.• Lead product-level security architecture design, guiding major platform and system-level decisions across endpoint, cloud, identity, and data pipelines.• Drive adversary-led strategy by translating real-world attacker behavior and threat intelligence into product architecture and roadmap direction.• Architect and govern continuous adversary emulation and purple-team programs to measure, benchmark, and improve detection effectiveness.• Own and evolve secure SDLC strategy, embedding threat modeling, secure design reviews, and security validation across the product lifecycle.• Establish security architecture and SDLC governance frameworks to ensure consistent, auditable, and scalable security practices across teams.• Provide cross-organizational architectural oversight, resolving complex security design tradeoffs and managing architectural risk.• Influence executive, product, and engineering leadership on security risk, architecture decisions, and long-term technical investments.• Mentor principal engineers, architects, and researchers, raising the technical bar and developing future technical leaders.

Education

• University Vishweshwaraya College of Engineering

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Application Security
• Windows Security
• Public Key Cryptography
• Secure Code Review
• Security System Design
• Secure Sdlc
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Penetration Testing
• Risk Assessment
• Threat Modeling
• Network Security
• Systems Engineering
• Reverse Engineering
• Mcafee Antivirus
• Hipaa, Nema, Pci Dss, Diacap, Owasp, Nist
• Mcafee Application Control
• Wix
• Vbscript
• Batch Programming
• C#
• Software Development
• Computer Security
• Integration
• Security
• Information Security
• Sdlc
• Requirements Analysis
• Agile Methodologies
• Cloud Security
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Cyber-Security