In October 2023, we welcomed Arif Husain to the team as our first Technical Director of Security Solutions. Arif has worked in the bot mitigation space for several years and now for us, he is a key strategic influence, operating at the crossroads between our technical teams and customers. Here we learn why he joined Kasada and what his experience has been so far.
Fun fact - Kasada is his 9th startup and his 5th bot security company!
Why did you join Kasada?
I have known about Kasada since 2017. I first came across the business back when I was selling to a large hospitality and entertainment business and one of my stakeholders there was a big fan of ‘some little company in Australia’, aka Kasada.
Several years later I sent my resume through the Kasada website and here I am. It is a luxury to work with people who are solving real problems that matter.
The people I met with in the hiring process were down-to-earth, honest human beings. There was none of the superficial, self-important, techy culture that many of us are all too familiar with. I was pleased to discover that many of the things I was trying to drive my last company to do differently were already being done here and in far more advanced ways.
All-in-all, I joined because of Kasada's values, their purpose (to ensure our world benefits from a secure, trustworthy Internet), and the potential to help others with a real problem. Kasada was also going about solving bot problems in a particularly exceptional way that just made sense.
Tell me about the last couple of weeks/your first few weeks at Kasada?
My onboarding experience has been unusually people-centric. Other roles in the past have been focused on learning the tech and reading docs while being thrown almost immediately into the deep end out in the field.
