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Mahesh Chukkapali

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COO at BigID
📍 Menlo Park, California, United States

Mahesh is a cybersecurity and AI executive with over 25 years of experience scaling businesses at companies like BigID, HackerOne, Google, and Palo Alto Networks. An alumnus of the University of Michigans Ross School of Business, he specializes in turning vision into profitable, AI-driven security platforms and GTM reinvention.

While at Google, he led a global support transformation using ML and automation, which saved the company approximately $75 million annually in operational costs.

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Experience
15 Years
Current Role
COO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Priorities

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AI & Data Security
As COO of BigID, his recent focus is on securing AI agents by controlling the underlying data context they access, a frequent topic in his posts.
Platform Transformation
He has a track record of turning single-product companies into multi-product platforms, significantly expanding their market and revenue streams at places like HackerOne.
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Career

Work history

4-2026
COO
BigID
10-2022 - 9-2024
COO
HackerOne
3-2019 - 7-2022
SVP, Cloud Delivered Security Services
Palo Alto Networks
1-2017 - 3-2019
Senior Director, Google Technical Services
Google
10-2013 - 12-2016
Director, Strategy & Incubation, Google Cloud
Google
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Education
2002 - 2004
MBA
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
1991 - 1993
Master of Science
Wayne State University
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