About
Danesh Irani is VP of Engineering at Theom, with a background as a tech lead, software engineer, and researcher in cybersecurity, payments, and information security. His experience includes designing and building applied machine learning and other production systems. He holds a PhD in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where his research addressed information security, adversarial learning, and social networks.
Founder at Theom
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Theom's investors · 7
Databricks VenturesSan Francisco · since 2022Foothill VenturesLos Altos · $100K – $10M checks · since 2022General PartnershipSan Francisco · $1M – $30M checks · since 2022M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Seattle · $100K – $10M checks · since 2022Ridge VenturesSan Francisco · $2M – $7M checks · since 2022S VenturesMountain View · $1M – $5M checks · since 2022WingPalo Alto · $200K – $20M checks · since 2022
Co-founders at Theom
NV
Navindra VermaFounder & CEO
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Ravi Netravali
FN
Farid Naja
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Navindra YadavExecutive Officer, Director
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Supreeth Hosur Nagesh RaoExecutive Officer
RS
Ravi SankuratriFounder
Experience
- theomVP of Engineeringcurrent2021 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- GoogleData Science and Machine Learning Tech Lead in Cloud Security / Chronicle2019 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- GoogleMachine learning and risk modeling Tech Lead in Payments2016 — 2019
- GoogleMaking Gmail even more secure2012 — 2016
- SymantecCore Research Team Intern2011Greater Los Angeles Area
- EURECOMVisiting Researcher2010Sophia Antipolis, Côte d'Azur, France
- Amazon.comSoftware Development Engineering Intern2009Greater Seattle Area
- MotorolaApplications Research Engineering Intern2007Greater Chicago Area
- IBM Canada Ltd.Information Technology Specialist2004 — 2006Toronto, Canada Area
Skills & more
Security Research3C++3Java7Machine Learning18Social Networking4Security4Computer Science18Network Security4Research2Python9Perl3Data Mining8
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Software EngineeringComputer SecurityInformation RetrievalInformation QualitySIGINTArtificial IntelligenceMapReduceInformation SecurityPattern RecognitionSoftware DevelopmentLanguages English
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Danesh Irani?
- Danesh Irani is VP of Engineering at Theom, with a background as a tech lead, software engineer, and researcher in cybersecurity, payments, and information security. His experience includes designing and building applied machine learning and other production systems. He holds a PhD in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where his research addressed information security, adversarial learning, and social networks.
- Where does Danesh Irani work?
- Danesh Irani is Founder of Theom.
- What companies did Danesh Irani found?
- Danesh Irani founded Theom.
- Where did Danesh Irani go to school?
- Danesh Irani studied at UC Berkeley College of Engineering (Engineering Leadership Professional Program, Organizational Leadership); Georgia Institute of Technology (Ph.D., Computer Science); University of Toronto Scarborough (Honours B.Sc., Computer Science).
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Also attended Georgia Institute of Technology346
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Also attended University of Toronto Scarborough8
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Shared employers
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