SPEAKER 2026

Hritik V
Security Engineer, Axilock
About Talk
The CI Pipeline Is Too Late: Preventing Secrets Before They Leave a Developer's Laptop
Attendees will learn how to design and deploy a prevention-first secret security control that stops credentials before they leave a developer’s machine, integrates safely with existing Git workflows, and provides measurable organisation-wide coverage without sending source code or secrets to a central service.
TRACK: DevOps
7th Oct 2026 | Hall B | Time:03:03:30-04:00 PM
About Speaker
Hritik V is a Sr Security Engineer and an open-source security practitioner passionate about system internals, vulnerability research, and software security. He co-maintains VulnerableCode, an open vulnerability database, and has contributed to and mentored Google Summer of Code projects. A regular speaker at conferences including Black Hat Arsenal, Open Source Summit, Nullcon, and IndiaFOSS, Hritik is currently exploring the intersection of AI and security.