Vijay Upadhyaya
GTM and product leader in cloud security; advisor and investor
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Santa Clara, California
Joined January 2026
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Proven GTM and product leader in cloud security who has built and scaled major cloud security products and businesses. rivalsense+1
Hands-on competitive strategy and product positioning background across multiple security and analytics companies, with a history of early-stage work and bootstrap product efforts. angellist+1
Active advisor and early-stage investor focused on security, IT operations and related verticals; engages with founders on pitch decks, positioning and GTM. wellfound+1
Public-facing commentator and investor in robotics and agentic AI, sharing analysis on robotics, evaluation/safety, and data/compute tradeoffs on social platforms. nitter+1
Operational security compliance leader for cloud products, having managed extensive compliance and certification programs (FedRAMP, StateRAMP and multiple other standards) for Prisma Cloud. paloaltonetworks+1
Work
Education
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Writing
Detecting insider threats with Okta and Sumo Logic
September 1, 2017Blog post describing approaches to detect and respond to insider threats in SaaS and cloud workloads by correlating Okta authentication logs with SaaS activity using Sumo Logic's analytics operators and automation actions.
Medium posts (author page)
Collection of technical and market-focused writings on cloud, security, and AWS tooling/marketscape topics.
Bitcoin prediction Cryptocurrency is a misnomer
Article discussing Bitcoin predictions and explaining why cryptocurrency is a misnomer.
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