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Pawan Agarwal

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Vice President, AI at HackerOne
📍 Redmond, Washington, United States

Pawan Agarwal is the Vice President of AI at HackerOne, where he leads initiatives in building autonomous agents for offensive security. His extensive career includes senior leadership roles at Salesforce, driving the AI platform and large-scale search, and foundational work at Microsoft. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas and a B. E. from IIT Roorkee.

A unique fact about Pawan is that he developed both the Azure Data Factory and the Azure Machine Learning Service at Microsoft from their initial concepts to full-fledged products.

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Experience
21 Years
Current Role
Vice President, AI
Job Level
Senior
Location
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Agentic AI
His current role at HackerOne and previous work at Salesforce on 'Agentforce' are centered on building and deploying autonomous AI agents to solve complex problems.
Offensive Cybersecurity
He is currently focused on applying AI to redefine offensive security, viewing it as the next major frontier for AI agents to find and validate exploits.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Vice President, AI
HackerOne
6-2020 - 7-2025
Senior Director Of Engineering, Salesforce AI Platform
Salesforce
8-2017 - 6-2020
Director Of Engineering, Salesforce Search
Salesforce
1-2016 - 8-2017
Principal Engineering Manager
Salesforce
9-2010 - 1-2016
Principal Lead Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Azure
Microsoft
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Pawan Agarwal | Vice President of AI - HackerOne - Forbes Councils. Featured in Forbes Councils
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Education
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
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