CyberWire Daily Payal Chakravarty: Overcoming bias in the workplace. [Security and Risk] [Career Notes]
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May 10, 2026 
Payal Chakravarty, Head of Product for Security and Risk at Coalition, built cloud and container security products after roles at IBM and Sysdig. She traces a journey from data centers to cloud and container monitoring. Topics include shifting monoliths to SaaS, challenges of dynamic container workloads, user-centered product values, and navigating bias in tech with calm negotiation.
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From IBM Intern To Cloud Migration Lead
- Payal Chakravarty started at IBM in India, interned at Microsoft, then returned to IBM in the U.S. and worked on stitching siloed data into scalable dashboards for data center managers.
- She later led migrating a portfolio from on‑prem monoliths to cloud SaaS, learning SLAs, security, and what it means to run products in the cloud.
Early Startup Work On Container Monitoring
- Payal joined Sysdig when it was ~30 people to tackle container monitoring as workloads moved to microservices and containers.
- She worked on detection tech using system calls and eBPF to handle highly dynamic, transient, high‑scale connections.
Insurance Plus Active Incident Response
- Payal joined Coalition because she valued combining risk transfer with active incident response and remediation for businesses that lack enterprise security teams.
- Coalition pairs financial liability coverage with incident response, negotiation, and recovery assistance for SMEs.