Ankita
Founder at Akto.io
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAnkita Gupta is Co-Founder and CEO of Akto, an API security startup in Palo Alto, bringing 15 years of experience across engineering, strategy and finance from JP Morgan, LinkedIn, VMware and early-stage companies, with an IIT Roorkee B.Tech and an MBA from Tuck. She left corporate life in 2022 to build Akto with co-founder Ankush Jain and has driven product and go-to-market progress that earned Forbes coverage. Her career uniquely blends hands-on engineering (early work at Snapdeal and a BASF intern project that replaced expensive Aspen licenses) with sales/operations leadership and investment due diligence experience from roles at VMware, CleverTap and Dasra. An active builder and co-author of the akto-api-security project on GitHub, she combines technical ownership with enterprise security and DevSecOps expertise to scale API protection for large organizations.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (40)
devsecops10
shift10
authentication10
security10
security-testing10
owasp10
authorization10
api-security10
api-testing10
penetration-testing9
hacking9
web-services9
pentesting9
methodology8
application-security8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
akto-api-security/Documentation
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:5 reviews, 50 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Ankita28g/www-project-devsecops-guideline
May 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 10 months
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