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Omkhar Arasaratnam is the first Distinguished Engineer for Security at LinkedIn, where he currently leads enterprise security engineering initiatives. With over 25 years of experience in global cybersecurity projects, he previously served as the General Manager of the Open Source Security Foundation under the Linux Foundation from May 2023 to September 2024. Prior to coordinating these industry-wide security efforts, Arasaratnam held senior security engineering and leadership positions at Google and JPMorgan Chase. He began his career at IBM as an open-source contributor maintaining the Gentoo Linux kernel, and he is listed as an inventor on multiple patents, including US8615789B2 for trust assertion using hierarchical weights. The Canadian-American computer scientist and PhD holder focuses his ongoing professional work on mitigating software supply chain risks, validating cloud data, and advancing open-source software security frameworks.
