Ammar Ekbote

Ammar Ekbote is a cloud security leader and engineering innovator with over 11 years of experience building resilient, scalable systems across embedded, storage, and large-scale cloud infrastructures. Currently at Pinterest, he focuses on secure cloud provisioning at internet scale. Previously, at Lacework, he led the development of agentless workload scanning—pioneering breakthroughs in cloud security automation. His career includes impactful work at Nimble Storage and QLogic, contributing to several U.S. patents in distributed systems, storage optimization, and container security. Beyond engineering, Ammar is an active mentor and community leader, guiding the next generation of innovators through global AI hackathons and security mentorship programs. Passionate about advancing both technology and the people behind it, he continues to shape the future of cloud security through innovation, open-source collaboration, and inclusive leadership.