Paras Nigam

VP Engineering

ICIMS

Nov 2025 - Current (10 months)

Vice President, Engineering & AI and Site Leader

Knowbe

Feb 2023 - Nov 2025 (2 years 10 months)

✅ AI Leadership: Built the AI Center of Excellence in Bengaluru, India, in just six months (2024) and spearheaded the design, development, and launch of AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents). This Generative AI-powered system personalizes security training, reduces administrative burden, and enhances human risk management. ✅ Global Team Building: Hired, trained, and led a world-class Generative AI team that delivered ahead of schedule, collaborating closely with product management. Currently leading seven teams across five products. ✅ Strategic Expansion: Driving the establishment of KnowBe4's India GCC from ground zero, fostering a high-speed productization culture with a strong emphasis on innovation, collaboration, and engineeri

Senior Director of Engineering and AI

Knowbe

Mar 2022 - Feb 2023 (1 year)

Building the world's first HDR (Human Detection and Response) platform. Knowbe4 is the market leader in Security Awareness and acquired SecurityAdvisor to deliver personalized and intelligent coaching to end-users.

Director of Engineering

Knowbe

Apr 2021 - Mar 2022 (1 year)

Director of Engineering

SecurityAdvisor Acquired by Knowbe

Apr 2021 - Mar 2022 (1 year)

Heading the global data strategy and responsible for the advancement of science, learning and automation roadmap. Building an AI/ML-powered Teachable moment product. Driving the research and analysis to power the development of a behavior-driven contextual security awareness product with the aim to reduce the overall risk posture of enterprises from the grassroots employee level.

Engineering Leader

Forcepoint

Apr 2020 - Mar 2021 (1 year)

o Led data science & engineering for 3 behavioral security products, mitigating financial & InfoSec risks at scale, protecting 250k+ endpoints and processing 1B+ daily data points. o Founding member, Forcepoint India Center of Excellence, contributing to the establishment and scaling of engineering operations. o Recruited & managed a global team across India, Singapore, & South Korea, fostering talent development. o Owned product infrastructure directly contributing $M's in APAC sales revenue. o Directed migration to advanced cloud technologies (AWS, containerization), enhancing scalability and efficiency. o Consulted APAC governments on data & insider threat programs, demonstrating external technical advisory. o Oversaw APAC pre-sales acti

Senior Principal Engineer

Forcepoint

Jan 2019 - Apr 2020 (1 year 4 months)

Founding team member at Forcepoint Center of Excellence in India. My current work involved enabling government departments and enterprises to strengthen their cybersecurity dynamics by designing and implementing solutions for their behavioral cybersecurity program. I focus on how behavioral security can go beyond simply adding another product to truly transform the cyber security paradigm.

Evangelist

UPGRAD

May 2018 - May 2019 (1 year 1 month)

Building the Data Science Eco System in Bangalore and Pan India, Guest Lectures, Students Mentoring, Provide virtual or in person training, joined hands together to help shape India of tomorrow by helping the workforce to re-skill themselves into areas like Data Science, Machine Learning etc.

Engineering Lead

McAfee

Apr 2018 - Dec 2018 (9 months)

o Designed a graph-based Regex engine, achieving a 1000x increase in text processing capability for automatic Regex generation, significantly enhancing data protection efficiency. o Utilized DBSCAN for automated identification of email campaigns at scale (millions of events), improving threat intelligence. o Applied advanced machine learning predictive modeling to identify graymail based on user activity, enhancing email security o Managed 273 server Spam labs and 300+ honeypots, ensuring robust threat intelligence infrastructure. o Achieved 40% inclusion rate from 24 POCs in less than five years, demonstrating strong product-market fit. o Filed 5 patents (2 granted), contributing to intellectual property in security analytics. o Led the in

Senior Data Scientist

McAfee

Apr 2017 - Mar 2018 (1 year)

Founder and Chief Editor

Inforatorcom

Dec 2015 - Oct 2021 (5 years 11 months)

EdTech Magazine features the latest innovation and initiatives to promote entrepreneurship.

Data Scientist

McAfee

Sep 2014 - Mar 2017 (2 years 7 months)

Software Engineer

Manhattan Associates

Jan 2014 - Sep 2014 (9 months)

o Designed the warehouse management automation for Nike and Staples in the US/EMEA o Developed warehouse management product using Java ecosystem o Trained and mentored junior members of the team on supply chain domain and java

Associate Software Engineer

Manhattan Associates

Jul 2012 - Dec 2013 (1 year 6 months)

Supply Chain Management - PSO Internal Project - Tracking Employee Data. External Project - NIAGARA (Client Name)- Warehouse management External Project - STAPLES(Client Name)- Warehouse Management

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Founder and CEO

gyanybabacom

Jul 2011 - Jul 2012 (1 year 1 month)

GyanyBaba, a EdTech business was doing what Coursera and other's are doing today. Gyanybaba.com was dedicated towards Education equalization of students who are not able to enter Tier 1 colleges in India though are enthusiastic towards learning and coming at par with the top in the industry. We attracted traction from various Geo in India and also nearby countries and hits from US.

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Founder and CEO

Smart Dust Technology

Nov 2010 - Jun 2011 (8 months)

Smart Dust Technology, a value driven company in the field of providing reliable web solutions. I started my career with founding this company where we pioneered in brining technology based operations for MSME in cities of Uttar Pradesh, India. I was very passionate about internet and enlightened the companies toward the importance of Internet presence and moved multiple brick mortar business to progress and compete with national vendors in progressive regions like Maharashtra, Karnataka and NCR.

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