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Sekhar Sarukkai

Technologist, entrepreneur, investor

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Work Experience

  • Faculty member; EAC@CLTC; Advisor @ Berkeley Skydeck

    2020

    Capstone Lecturer for graduate Cybersecurity program. External Advisory Committee, Center for Long Term Cybersecurity. Key advisor & LP @ Berkeley Skydeck.

  • Operating Executive/Advisor

    2024

2020

  • Angel Investor & advisor

    2020

    Angel investor & advisor to multiple startups. More details here: https://www.skrangels.com.

2018 - 2021

  • VP, Fellow (now Skyhigh Security)

    2018 - 2021

2012 - 2018

  • Founder, Chief Scientist & SVP Engineering (now McAfee / Skyhigh Security)

    2012 - 2018

    An investor, founder and board member of Skyhigh Networks (funded by Sequoia and Greylock). Acquired by McAfee. Responsible for technology, engineering and operations for the industry leading Cloud security solution. Incubated adjacencies and extensions of the Skyhigh CASB platform.

2010 - 2017

  • Co-founder

    2010 - 2017

    A social enterprise (and Kiva India partner) that brings peer2peer micro-financing (with the use of technology and innovative micro-VC funding models) to impoverished entrepreneurs in rural India. High impact, one person at a time. http://www.micrograam.org. Micrograam is a Computerworld Honors award winner.

2007 - 2012

  • Senior Director Engineering, PMBU/Security Technology Group

    2007 - 2012

    Lead engineering for all of Cisco's enterprise Identity and network access control product portfolio deployed in almost all of Cisco's wired, wireless and VPN customers. ISE was awarded Cisco Pioneer award in 2012.

  • Founder, CTO

    2004 - 2007

    Access control, XACML, incredible customer traction, lots of caffeine. Acquired by Cisco. Responsible for technology and engineering. A founder and board member -- funded by Greylock.

  • Founder, CTO

    2001 - 2004

    SOA, SOAP, web services management, SAML, UDDI, WS-policy, caffeine. API management and security. Acquired by Oracle (via Oblix) and still lives on as a core part of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

  • Senior Researcher

    1996 - 2001

    Lots of fun projects, papers and patents including one of the earliest web browsing using speech, etc. Then was chief architect at the e-speak group -- bleeding edge work ahead of the rest of the industry on web-services, app store, mobile app access, etc.