Ashwin Iyer is a cybersecurity architect with 12+ years of experience across red teaming, threat modeling, and cloud security. He currently leads offensive security for mergers and acquisitions at Visa Inc., conducting advanced penetration tests and threat evaluations of critical financial infrastructure. Previously at SAP Ariba, he built and led the red team program, developing internal CTFs, defining SOC SLAs, and identifying high-impact vulnerabilities across global B2B platforms. Ashwin is an EC-Council CodeRed instructor (Session Hijacking & Prevention), a reviewer for Hands-On Red Team Tactics (Packt), and a contributor to PCI SSC’s segmentation guidance for modern networks. He has delivered hands-on workshops at BSidesSF, HackGDL, and Pacific Hackers on topics like GenAI threat modeling, Practical Threat Modeling for Agile. He holds certifications including OSCP, OSEP, GCPN, OSMR, CTMP and few others. When not hacking cloud platforms or vendor portals, he’s mentoring teams on how to think like attackers.