Hemant is Director of Security and Privacy Engineering at SmartThings, a Samsung company. He has more than 20 years of experience in designing & developing security solutions, and building successful cyber-security programs. Prior to SmartThings, Hemant was Director of Application Security & Security Architecture at Walmart Labs and also provided thought leadership in Information Security at Intuit. He has built highly scalable, available and secure solutions in the field of banking, payments, mass alarming, messaging and fraud detection for various clients.