Suchakra Sharma

Dr. Suchakra Sharma is the Chief Scientific Officer at Whirly Labs, where he leads the Security and Privacy Research and Education team. He brings over 10 years of experience in the security and privacy industry, having worked with Fortune 500 clients and government agencies across the finance, transportation, FMCG, and healthcare sectors. His work includes developing custom tools, conducting trainings and secure code reviews, and delivering tailored solutions to address fundamental security and privacy challenges. With hands-on experience in development, support, and consultation, Suchakra excels at bridging the gaps between sales, business, and engineering functions.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Polytechnique Montréal, where he focused on hardware-assisted tracing for operating systems analysis. He invented the first hardware trace-based virtual machine analysis technique using specialized instructions in Intel chipsets. Most recently, he served as the Chief Scientist at Privado.ai, where he introduced static code analysis to the privacy engineering space. Prior to that, he was a founding member of Qwiet.ai.

A prolific speaker, Suchakra has delivered talks, trainings, and lectures on software analysis and cybersecurity at venues such as RSA, Black Hat, Carnegie Mellon University, USENIX LISA, USENIX Enigma, the UN Internet Governance Forum, and NorthSec. He is also a regular contributor to IEEE, serving as a reviewer for leading research journals.