Riyaz Walikar is a Co-Founder at Kloudle, a Cloud Native, Kubernetes and Container Security monitoring and insights 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, Riyaz has worked across multiple technologies and environments in the areas of web, cloud, wireless and in the last couple of years, in the container orchestration security space.

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 in the areas of Kubernetes, container and Cloud Native security.