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Omkhar Arasaratnam is a Canadian-American computer scientist, technology executive, and investor. He specializes in cybersecurity, software engineering and technical risk management and is currently the General Manager at the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).

Arasaratnam began his career in open source software development as a Gentoo Linux PPC64 maintainer and contributor to the Linux kernel. Later, he led cybersecurity efforts for over 25 years at various financial and technology institutions, including Google, JPMorgan Chase, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, TD Bank and IBM. In May 2023, Arasaratnam became General Manager of the Open Source Security Foundation, succeeding Brian Behlendorf.

Arasaratnam is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Cybersecurity at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Since 2021, Arasaratnam and his wife have funded the Cyber Fellows S&K scholarship focused on breaking down barriers that have historically led to the underrepresentation of women and minorities in STEM.

In September 2023, on behalf of OpenSSF, he helped host the Secure Open Source Software Summit, a meeting with cybersecurity US government officials and private sector leaders on the best ways to improve the security of the open source software ecosystem.