Shruthi Chikkanna

Experience

1. Director of Engineering, Iam

   Salesforce

   Aug 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   I’m a Security Engineering Manager with a passion for building secure, scalable systems that protect users and organizations. I have expertise in designing and delivering endpoint security solutions using hardware-backed certificates, helping strengthen device trust and make authentication more secure.Right now, I’m working on projects exploring hardware-backed device attestation, anomalous access detection, and real-time threat intelligence. I’m especially excited about how AI/ML can transform identity security — from using graph-based models to spot suspicious patterns to building adaptive access controls that evolve with threats.I believe the future of security lies in AI-augmented systems that continuously learn, catch subtle anomalies, and refine access policies to stop threats before they become incidents. Whether it’s designing risk-based authentication pipelines or experimenting with generative AI for threat analysis, I’m always looking for ways to make security smarter, faster, and more reliable.

Education

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  B.E, computer science

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Microservices
• Cloud Security
• Single Sign-on (Sso)
• Cloud Development
• Github
• Groovy
• Scim
• Cloud Computing Iaas
• Database Design
• Oracle Database
• Multithreaded Development
• Identity & Access Management (Iam)
• Java
• Paas
• Representational State Transfer (Rest)
• Oauth
• J2ee
• Multi-Factor Authentication