About Validin
Learn More about the Team
Our History
2019
DNS Collection Begins
2021
Validin Founded
2023
Community Launched
Late 2024
Widespread Adoption and Port Crawling.
2020
Heavy Investment in Proactive Discovery
2022
Product Maturation
2024
Validin 2.0 Launched
2025
Rapid Growth
2019
DNS Collection Begins
2020
Heavy Investment in Proactive Discovery
2021
Validin Founded
2022
Product Maturation
2023
Community Launched
2024
Validin 2.0 Launched
Late 2024
Widespread Adoption and Port Crawling.
2025
Rapid Growth
Leadership
Learn about the key innovators behind Validin's next-generation internet-intelligence platform.
Kenneth Kinion
Founder and CEO
Kenneth brings deep experience in software and data engineering to Validin. He started working in security data analytics with large datasets in 2008 when he graduated from Georgia Tech. He joined Microsoft to help find malicious activity through bulk data analysis. He’s worked on very high-scale data and services at Amazon in Seattle and moved back to Atlanta to work for and with numerous Atlanta-based security startups.
Before graduating college, Kenneth worked as an embedded software engineer, writing C and assembly language programs for very low-resource microcontroller applications. He’s spent time in test, development, and research roles.
Sreekar Madabushi
Founding Engineer
Sreekar brings a wealth of engineering and academic experience to Validin’s engineering team. With a variety of academic interests, Sreekar is especially passionate about discovering cyber threats and working with big data sets. In his time at Validin, Sreekar has been instrumental in accelerating major product launches while driving development of Validin’s next-generation internet intelligence platform. He has also presented at multiple research conferences, exporing the latest cyber threats in the landscape.
Prior to Validin, Sreekar was a two-time contestant on Jeopardy! and previously interned with Amazon and the U.S. Navy. Sreekar holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
Elliot Roe
Software Engineer
Elliot brings a mix of engineering, product, and user-experience focus to Validin. A Computer Science graduate from Georgia Tech with concentrations in information networks and UI/UX.
Before joining Validin, Elliot founded and grew education-focused nonprofit and for-profit ventures, developing software used across the K-12 and higher education sectors.
At Validin, Elliot focuses on shaping how dense, internet-scale data is surfaced and explored, ensuring the platform feels powerful, clear, and aligned with user expectations. He is passionate about creating an unmatched experience for searching and understanding the internet.
John Head
GTM and Strategy Lead
Tom Hegel
Advisor
An accomplished cybersecurity researcher and a leader in the threat intelligence space, with a background of tracking some of the most interesting and unique threat actors globally. Tom’s dedication lies in driving cutting-edge cyber threat intelligence and research, collaborating with top-tier analysts and organizations worldwide.
As a Distinguished Threat Researcher and Research Lead at SentinelLabs, Tom spearheads investigations into the most sophisticated nation-state and criminal threat actors, uncovering operations from adversaries across Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, India, and beyond. His work has led to the discovery of new mercenary groups, emerging geopolitical cyber campaigns, and critical insights into global conflicts.
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