Leaders bring in talent from Google, Apple and Palo Alto Networks to help strengthen the company’s engineering and R&D teams
Obsidian Security, the leader in SaaS security and posture management (SSPM), has announced four new senior hires to its engineering team: Zhiping Liu as Senior Principal Engineering Lead, Shuyang Wang, Head of Threat Research, Phil Whyte, Senior Director of Engineering and Autumn Wang, Director of DevOps. Major hires embody Obsidian’s mantra of relentless innovation and bring with them world-class security engineering excellence from leading organizations such as Apple, Google, Palo Alto Networks and GCHQ. These additions strengthen the product development team led by Glenn Chisholm, co-founder and CPO and Xinran Wang, EVP of Engineering. This announcement follows Obsidian’s official certification as a Great Place to Work since early May.
Recently appointed, EVP of Engineering Xinran Wang is rapidly moving forward with doubling the size of the engineering team. Si Ms. Zhiping Liu has more than 20 years of threat engineering experience, starting at China University of Science and Technology at the age of fifteen where he became an expert in Natural Language Processing (NLP). He also holds a Masters in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University. Prior to joining Obsidian, he was the head of threat engineering at vArmour and prior to that he was at Palo Alto Networks where he contributed to the development of PANOS and Wildfire as a senior software architect. Shuyang Wang came to Obsidian from Google, where he was a top senior security engineer with extensive responsibility across product, procurement and offensive security. Mr. Wang has deep experience in threat research and has led red teaming simulations and pentest programs focused on web services. Prior to Google, he spent four years as a security engineer at Apple focused on IOS and MacOS kernel security.
Phil Whyte will build and lead the Obsidian R&D hub in the United Kingdom. He previously served as Senior Director of Engineering at Synack, and before that worked as a security researcher for GCHQ in the United Kingdom. Finally, Autumn Wang brings extensive security-focused DevOps experience through her work at Palo Alto Networks, where she grew DevOps and Site Reliability for the Okyo product from scratch to support hundreds of millions of users. revenue of cloud services. Prior to Palo Alto, Autumn held DevOps and Principal engineering roles at Illumio, Autodesk and Salesforce.
“Having developed world-class engineering teams at Palo Alto Networks and Shape Security, it is exciting to bring such high-caliber individuals to the team to drive our product innovation,” said Xinran Wang, EVP of Engineering . “Obsidian has given me the platform to build the best SaaS security solution and these four engineering leaders with incredible track records of success and expertise are an important step towards achieving our goals. . ”
“Great companies are built on great products. I am excited and humbled that Zhiping, Shuyang, Phil and Autumn will bring their immense talent and expertise to Obsidian.” said Hasan Imam, CEO of Obsidian. “This will allow us to continue rapid change at a broader level, and help us achieve our goal of helping organizations address security gaps and compliance with business-critical SaaS applications. . ”
All four senior engineers bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the company and will help Obsidian Security achieve its goal of delivering a SaaS security category defining solution.
About Obsidian Security
Obsidian Security is the first truly comprehensive threat and posture management solution developed for SaaS. Our platform aggregates data across key applications to help your team optimize configurations, reduce over-privilege, and mitigate account compromises and insider threats. The company was founded in 2017 by industry experts from Carbon Black and Cylance along with Ben Johnson, Glenn Chisholm and Matt Wolff. Well-known Fortune 500 companies rely on Obsidian Security to secure SaaS apps and tools, such as GitHub, ServiceNow, Workday and Atlassian. Headquartered in Southern California, Obsidian Security is a private company and supported by Greylock Partners, GV, Norwest Venture Partners, and Wing. For more information, visit www.obsidiansecurity.com.
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