Software Senior Principal Engineer driving AI innovation, product strategy, and secure software delivery
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I am a Software Senior Principal Engineer and Product Owner with over 20 years of experience building and delivering enterprise software products at scale. Throughout my career, I have led cross-functional teams, driven product strategy, and championed engineering excellence across complex technology initiatives.
In recent years, I have developed a strong focus on cybersecurity, Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) practices, vulnerability management, threat modeling, and security governance. I am passionate about helping organizations build secure, reliable, and compliant products without sacrificing innovation or delivery speed.
I am also deeply interested in AI and emerging technologies and am actively seeking opportunities to combine my expertise in software engineering, product leadership, cybersecurity, and AI to solve meaningful problems. My strengths include strategic thinking, stakeholder management, process improvement, and leading teams through complex technical and organizational challenges.
Above all, I enjoy building products that create real impact, mentoring teams, and driving technology initiatives that balance business goals, customer needs, security, and innovation.
Lead product strategy, roadmap planning, and execution for enterprise software platforms.
Drive Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) governance, cybersecurity programs, and security compliance initiatives.
Collaborate with engineering, security, compliance, and business stakeholders to deliver secure and scalable products.
Define requirements, prioritize backlogs, and guide technical and architectural decisions.
Mentor teams and champion engineering excellence, automation, and innovation.
Experimented with and developed solutions using AI Agents to automate workflows, improve productivity, and accelerate decision-making.
Designed and implemented MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server integrations to enable secure interactions between AI systems, enterprise tools, and business processes.
Evaluated and applied Generative AI capabilities for engineering productivity, knowledge management, and automation use cases.
Explored Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, AI orchestration, and agentic workflows.
Worked on applying AI in Cybersecurity, including intelligent vulnerability analysis, security automation, and risk assessment.
Researched and implemented AI Guardrails to improve governance, security, compliance, and responsible AI adoption.
Evaluated AI risks related to data privacy, prompt injection, model misuse, and secure enterprise AI deployments.
Promoted secure AI development practices aligned with governance and compliance requirements.
Led SDL onboarding and security governance across multiple product teams.
Established processes for threat modeling, vulnerability management, penetration testing, security reviews, and compliance tracking.
Improved security posture through adoption of tools such as Checkmarx, Black Duck, Twistlock, Nessus, and related security frameworks.
Streamlined security workflows through automation, standardized templates, and risk-based prioritization.
Enabled secure-by-design practices while maintaining product delivery velocity.
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