Besides an avid marathoner, Vijay is an inventor with 16 US patents across Security and beyond. Vijay began his career at Asia’s first SOC at Bangalore Labs (now 3D Networks). Later, Vijay was early member at McAfee. At McAfee, Vijay was instrumental in starting the flagship DLP (Data Leakage Prevention) cyber-security-section team post an Israeli acquisition. Earlier, Vijay started Cryptography team post a Canadian acquisition. Vijay has been a Speaker and Moderator at Convergence India (a Ministry of Commerce – Government of India event), Dubai FinTech, Amsterdam FinTech, IIM Lucknow, IIM Udaipur, ISB Hyderabad, PMI, Tata Tele, Sony, Aditya Birla, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore Universities. Vijay is an alumnus of NIT Warangal, IIIT-Bangalore and ISB Hyderabad. He is certified on Cloud Security, Blockchain, Data Privacy, ISO27001, AI/ML, Networks and Firewall/VPN.