Riyaz is the Co-Founder/Chief Hacker at Kloudle Inc, a Cloud Native Security Monitoring SaaS company. At Kloudle, his offensive security skills are used to identify and mimic attackers attempting to break-in to various cloud configurations to enhance Kloudle's monitoring capabilities.

He is also an active security evangelist and researcher with over a decade of experience in the cyber security industry. His curiosity has led him to work in various aspects of Cloud Security, Kubernetes and Container Security, Web Application and Mobile Security, Network and System Penetration Testing, Wireless Network Security Assessment, Dynamic Malware Analysis, Threat Modelling, Windows Forensics, Security Code Review, Vulnerability Research, Exploit Development and Reverse Engineering.

He loves speaking at various conferences and community meetups and has been a speaker/trainer at numerous conferences including BlackHat, DefCon, OWASP AppSec and nullcon. He is also one of the chapter leaders of OWASP Bangalore and in the past has led community efforts at null (India's largest open security community) as well. When he is not building/breaking apps, you can find him dabbling in photography, stargazing, playing football, reading or fishing.