Riyaz Walikar

Riyaz Walikar is a Co-Founder at Kloudle, a Cloud Native Security Monitoring SaaS company. He and his
team primarily work with container orchestration tools and focus on Cloud Native Infrastructure security,
attacker focused research and cluster compliance methodologies. With over a decade of experience in
the security industry, he has worked across multiple technologies and environments in the areas of web,
mobile, cloud, wireless and in the last couple of years, in the container orchestration security space. In the past, he has led offensive security and product security teams at PwC, Citrix and at Appsecco.

Riyaz is a CKA, CKAD, OSCP and CREST certified cloud native and kubernetes security evangelist and
has also been a speaker/trainer at multiple hacker conferences around the world including BlackHat,
DefCON, OWASP AppsecUSA, nullcon and c0c0n. His primary passion includes enabling security
education, imparting best practice learning, verifying and providing security guidance to peers,
colleagues and customers alike.