Challenges in Open Source Application Security – Shubhra Kar – ASW #163

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Shubhra Kar
Global CTO and GM of Products & IT at The Linux Foundation

Shubhra is a passionate technology leader with over twenty years of experience in open source, cloud, enterprise architecture, DevOps, IoT and Realtime Monitoring and Analytics. Shubhra’s career spans early stage startups to NASDAQ-listed companies generating nearly $10B+ in annual revenue. He is a bottoms up Product leader, with previous lives of developer, enterprise architect, management consultant, pre-sales director, and chief evangelist before finding his calling in product management. At the Linux foundation, Shubhra created the LFX platform with services for every stage of the open source supply chain. He also runs the Cloud and Release engineering team serving 700 open source projects

He came to the Linux Foundation from Joyent/Samsung, where as VP of Products, he ran multiple product lines – primarily services like Multi-Cloud Kubernetes, Machine Learning, Serverless and Monitoring/Analytics/Logging/Tracing. Previous to Samsung, Shubhra served as VP of Product and Marketing at startups like InfluxData (#1 Time Series platform in the world) and StrongLoop (acquired by IBM) and is also the current Marketing Chair of the Node.js Foundation. He has also held management and technical leadership positions at CA Technologies and Infosys (India’s first startup to bluechip success story).

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Tech Lead at Block
Senior Engineering Leader at AWS