Dev Sharma

About Dev Sharma

I conceived, built and launched Trend Micro’s core real-time predictive threat intelligence service from the ground up; a distributed, highly available platform.Stanford Executive Education and 25 years of hands-on experience in building and breaking systems.Former Head of Applied Threat Intelligence, now AI Strategy Advisor for MDR SOC, one of Trend\'s fastest-growing division.Outside of the regular job, Identified critical market gap in 2017: the need for predictive, unified and actionable vulnerability intelligence:• Secured executive buy-in and multi-year funding through POC’s and vision presentation• Designed and architected, and delivered the foundational version of the graph database-based semantic threat modeling system (ML powered, pre-ChatGPT era)• Platform now trusted by Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), threat researchers, sales, and product managementThanks to Trend’s deep innovation culture, supported by C-level execs.Team:• Hired and nurtured brilliant, passionate Data Scientists, Software Engineers, DevOps and Managers.• Scaled highly capital efficient teams from zero to full operational excellence across North America and Europe.• Zero voluntary attrition since 2016.More than anything, I’m really proud of leading the team who built it.Achievements:• CISA Partnership: Collaborated during KEV catalog inception - contributed ideas and feedback.• AWS Partnership: Pre-Launch partner for AWS for Network Firewall solution.• Log4j: My Log4J public vulnerability assessment tool became #1 Google, cited in CISA advisory, used by thousands globally• Co-hosted CTF hacking events globally for Trend in Japan and US.• Supported VicOne (Trend’s automotive security spinout) with custom threat feeds and early-stage security toolingBroader Contributions:• Contributed behind the scenes to analyst briefings (Gartner, Forrester, IDC)• Co-Managed Trend\'s open source initiatives and public GitHub repos• Tasked by SVP leadership, I established a new group to integrate SOAR/SIEM platforms (Splunk, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Cortex, etc.) with Trend’s solutions.• Advised strategic customers across banking, defense, healthcare, cyber insurance for practical security posture and regulatory compliance (NIST, ISO, PCI-DSS, GDPR…)• Participated in evaluating an entity for strategic acquisitionThe platform continues to evolve with its exceptional team.reach2dev AT gmailAlways open for a discussion on emerging technologies and product innovation.

Experience

1. Head Applied Threat Intelligence, Threat Research

   TrendAI

   Oct 2016 — Present · Austin, TX, US

Education

• Stanford University

  SCAPM, Management and Strategic Execution

  2010 — 2010

• St. Anselm's School

  High School, Computer Science, Maths, Physics

  1981 — 1993

• University of Udaipur

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

  1993 — 1996

• University of Allahabad

  M.Tech, Information Technology

  2003 — 2005

Skills

• Mobile Devices
• Certified Scrum Master Csm
• Big Data
• Java
• Ajax
• Javascript
• Pl/Sql
• Software Development
• Python
• Scrum
• Xml
• Rest
• Angularui Bootstrap
• Html, Css, Javascript, Js
• Jquery
• Design Patterns
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Stanford
• Angularjs
• Revenue, Pricing Systems, Financial Institution, Electronic Payment Network
• Agile Methodologies
• Unix
• Management
• Sql
• Linux
• Start-Ups
• Hibernate
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Oracle, Sql, Pl/Sql, Database, Jdbc, Transaction Systems Nosql
• Web Services, Webservices, Json, Rest, Soap, Xml
• Databases
• Google Cloud Platform
• E-Commerce
• Mapreduce
• Large Scale Systems
• Web Services
• Hadoop
• Saas
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management