Senior Solution Architect · Akamai

Chinmay
Bhat

I help organisations solve hard security problems at scale.

Passionate about edge computing, threat intelligence, and building things that don't break.

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Impact

Nine years, distilled.

Inside one of the internet's largest security & edge platforms.

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Years in security & software engineering
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Years at Akamai as Solution / Security Architect
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Product lines led as Product Line Expert
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Akamai University Instructor MVP, 2023 & 2024
Experience

Where the work happened.

01
JUN 2017 — PRESENT
Senior Security
Architect
Akamai Technologies · Bengaluru
previously Solutions Architect Senior

Product Line Expert for four application security products — Account Protector, Bot Manager Premier, Content Protector & WAAP Hybrid — the senior technical authority for architecture decisions and escalations across enterprise accounts.

Design end-to-end WAF, API security, and bot-defence architectures for enterprise customers, from threat model to production rollout. Key contributor to the Secure IQ initiative supporting Akamai's analyst Leader positioning, turning emerging CVEs into customer-facing mitigation guidance.

Delivered 10+ partner enablement programmes and act as senior escalation point for complex integrations; mentor and onboard new architects joining the team.

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JUN 2015 — JUN 2017
Software Engineer
(Web)
Sumeru Solutions · Bengaluru

Engineered and performance-tuned high-traffic public web platforms using Drupal, PHP & JavaScript — the hands-on foundation for today's application-layer security design work.

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SEP 2014 — JUN 2015
System Analyst
Niyatha Technologies · Bengaluru

Built a school ERP platform from the ground up, covering academic and administrative process management.

Skills

The stack, by domain.

Grouped the way the work actually breaks down.

01 Web App Security
  • WAF architecture & rule strategy
  • API discovery & posture enforcement
  • Threat modelling
  • Secure SDLC touchpoints
02 Bot & DDoS
  • Bot mitigation architecture
  • ATO & credential-stuffing defence
  • Scraping & inventory-hoarding defence
  • DDoS resilience design
03 Edge / CDN
  • CDN & edge delivery security
  • TLS / mTLS & certificate management
  • Multi-CDN architecture
04 Cloud
  • Hybrid & cloud-adjacent architecture
  • Zero-trust principles
  • Defence-in-depth design
05 Automation & AI
  • CVE-driven mitigation tooling & security configuration automation
  • AI-assisted engineering workflows
  • Partner enablement tooling & technical training design
Selected work

A few builds. Enterprise customer names withheld.

01Security Configuration Cloner
Problem
Replicating complex WAF & bot configurations across enterprise properties and environments was manual, slow, and error-prone.
Approach
Built a tool to clone, diff, and reconcile security configurations across properties — turning a manual copy-paste exercise into a repeatable, auditable process.
Outcome
Faster, more consistent config migrations for enterprise rollouts, with far less room for human error.
02DDoS Traffic-Peak Dashboard
Problem
Teams lacked real-time visibility into traffic anomalies and volumetric spikes during active DDoS events.
Approach
Designed a dashboard surfacing live traffic peaks, attack signatures, and mitigation status in one view.
Outcome
Faster detection and response during high-severity incidents, with clearer signal for escalation decisions.
03Automated Security Config Analysis
Problem
Manually auditing WAF and bot rule sets across enterprise accounts for drift and misconfiguration didn't scale.
Approach
Automated analysis that flags misconfigurations, policy drift, and gaps against best-practice baselines.
Outcome
Shorter audit cycles and more consistent security posture across accounts.
04 Splitbill — open-source expense splitter Visit ↗
Problem
Splitting shared expenses with friends and groups usually means ads, daily limits, or a Pro subscription just to get multi-currency support or spending analytics.
Approach
Built and self-host an open-source (MIT-licensed) Splitwise/Tricount alternative — equal, exact, percentage & share-based splitting, live multi-currency conversion, debt simplification, recurring expenses, and full data export on SQLite or Postgres.
Outcome
Live at splitbill.bgchinmay.online, now available in Indian languages, with iOS and Android apps coming soon.
Certifications
Project Management Professional (PMP)®
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
Akamai Next Generation Technical Leader
2× Akamai University Instructor MVP
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