About me

Built Product Security Programs at Billion-Dollar Startups | Technical Blogging @ productsecurity.ghost.io Utkarsh is a Security Engineer with hands-on experience building and leading product security programs from the ground up at billion-dollar startups. Utkarsh has operated as an early, often first, security hire and partnered closely with engineering teams to design, implement, and scale security practices that work in fast-moving environments. I bring a technical approach to security. I am equally comfortable writing production-grade code, building internal security tools in Java and Python, performing manual source code reviews, and executing advanced offensive security assessments across web, mobile, cloud, and infrastructure. I also write technical, in-depth blogs at productsecurity.ghost.io, where I break down real-world security problems, tooling, and methodologies with a practitioner-first lens. Core Expertise: Product Security Program Design and Scaling Source Code-Driven Pentesting and Manual Code Reviews (Java, Python, React) Threat Modeling and Architecture Reviews Web and Mobile Security (OWASP) Cloud and Infrastructure Security (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform) Red Teaming and Penetration Testing (Application and Network) Secure SDLC and DevSecOps including CI/CD Automation Security Tooling and Scanner Development If you are looking for deeply technical, execution-focused guidance on building or scaling security, you are in the right place.