I build security that’s invisible and infrastructure that’s boring.
Currently architecting Zero Trust security at Parafin — supporting an embedded-lending platform with $35B+ in capital offers extended to 50,000+ businesses. Gold Laureate, Aureum Technology Awards (Season 3, NLP Achievement). Fellow, Hackathon Raptors. Published AI security researcher — three peer-reviewed papers in 2026 (EmbedGuard, GenOps, RuntimeGuard-AI), plus the PerceptFence DOI-backed research artifact. Speaker at Conf42 DevOps 2026, Conf42 LLMs 2026, and CIMA 2026. Fellow of IICSPA. Building mission-critical systems since 2011 across Parafin, Meta, Wayfair, JPMorgan Chase, and American Express.
My Story
My journey in tech began with a simple question: “How can this be better?” It’s a question that has taken me from writing COBOL adapters for American Express across three continents to architecting Zero Trust security infrastructure for embedded lending at scale.
Today at Parafin, I work on security infrastructure for a platform that has extended $35B+ in capital offers to 50,000+ businesses across partners including Amazon, DoorDash, Walmart, Gusto, and TikTok Shop. I’ve been named a Gold Laureate in the Aureum Technology Awards (Season 3, NLP Achievement) and elected Fellow of Hackathon Raptors. I’ve published three peer-reviewed AI-security papers in 2026 (EmbedGuard, GenOps, RuntimeGuard-AI), released the PerceptFence Zenodo/GitHub research artifact, spoken at Conf42 DevOps, Conf42 LLMs, and CIMA 2026, and earned Fellowship in IICSPA and Full Membership in Sigma Xi — The Scientific Research Honor Society.
I thrive on turning complex distributed systems into reliable (and slightly boring) platforms. My goal is to automate the pain points away and build security so seamless you forget it’s there. Whether I’m sketching system diagrams, mentoring engineers, or debugging a gnarly distributed trace at 2am, I’m always searching for the next puzzle to solve.
Awards, publications & memberships
International awards
Gold Laureate — Aureum Technology Awards Season 3 (NLP Achievement Award; reference TEC-26-12296), Aureum International Awards Council. Season 3: 4,067 applications received, 1,082 advanced to full assessment, 213 laureates after multi-phase expert evaluation (per program materials and press). Media: Markets Insider — Season 3 results.
Scholarly & research publications
Three peer-reviewed papers published in 2026 — all open access (CC-BY 4.0) and DOI-registered. Current public profiles should not claim 2026 article-level Scopus indexing without a fresh indexing exhibit.
EmbedGuard — Cross-Layer Detection and Provenance Attestation for Adversarial Embedding Attacks in RAG Systems — IJCESEN, Vol 12 No 1, pp 589–602, 2026. DOI 10.22399/ijcesen.4869 · Implementation (GitHub). The paper reports a 94.7% detection rate on optimization-based attacks at 51 ms mean overhead, evaluated on a 500K-embedding production-scale system.
GenOps — A Governance-First Architecture for Embedding Generative AI into CI/CD Pipelines — JISEM, Vol 11(1s), pp 1518–1539, 2026. DOI 10.52783/jisem.v11i1s.14322. Companion talk at Conf42 DevOps 2026. The paper reports a 55.7% reduction in median deployment cycle time with zero safety-policy violations across 15,847 deployments.
RuntimeGuard-AI — Scalable Tamper-Evident Accountability for High-Risk AI Systems Under the EU AI Act — JoCAAA (Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications, Eudoxus Press), Vol 35 No 1, pp 1074–1090, 2026. DOI 10.48047/jocaaa.2026.35.01.87. Companion talk at Conf42 LLMs 2026. The paper presents an open-source compliance architecture for EU AI Act Article 14, using Groth16 zero-knowledge proofs at 2.3–4.1% latency overhead.
PerceptFence (support artifact, not a peer-reviewed paper) — Content-Mediation Architecture and Deterministic Coverage for Screen-Share AI Assistants — Zenodo v0.3.0 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21289219 · all-versions DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21150725 · GitHub. DataCite type: SoftwareSourceCode.
Technical writing & community reach
Writing on LinkedIn, Dev.to, Hashnode, and the Securing the Agentic Stack newsletter — agentic AI security, MCP risk, RAG pipelines, Kubernetes, Kafka, and distributed systems. Representative titles include Your Agent Can’t Tell What It Was Told From What It Read (2026) and Prompt Engineering vs Context Engineering vs Reasoning Engineering (2026).
Speaking
Conf42 LLMs 2026 — invited talk: RuntimeGuard-AI: Cryptographic Compliance for High-Risk AI Pipelines — recording (YouTube) · verified speaker certificate.
Conf42 DevOps 2026 — invited talk: GenOps: A Governance-Driven Model for Safe, High-Velocity AI in CI/CD Pipelines — session page · recording (YouTube).
CIMA 2026, NIT Puducherry — invited talk: Governing Generative AI in Production: Building Trustworthy and Secure AI Systems — talk page.
Open source
FAANG — interview-prep algorithms & patterns (1,880 GitHub stars, 489 forks as of Jul 2026).
EmbedGuard — reproducible RAG-security research framework (Docker, tests, benchmarks).
PerceptFence — DOI-backed software/reproducibility artifact for screen-share AI assistant content mediation.
faang-system-design — curated system-design notes (179 stars, 41 forks as of Jul 2026).
Fellowships & professional memberships
Fellow, Hackathon Raptors — UK Community Interest Company 15557917; peer-elected fellowship for sustained builder / hackathon achievement (Fellow #14975).
Fellow (FIICSPA), International Institute of Computer Science Professional Association (IICSPA).
Full Member, Sigma Xi — The Scientific Research Honor Society, inducted Mar 2026.
Member, IEEE.
Researcher ID: ORCID 0009-0002-2125-1805.
Peer review & service
Peer reviewer, Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) — reviews of open-source research software submissions.
Mentor and judge, Apart Research Global South AI Safety Hackathon 2026 — public roster and organizer letter on file.
Other
- Google Developer Program (beta) · Google I/O 2023 attendee.
Architecting Simplicity, Engineering for Growth
I specialize in making complex systems secure, scalable, and reliable. Here’s how I help organizations thrive.
Security Infrastructure & Zero Trust
I design and implement Zero Trust security architectures — from identity and access management to policy-as-code enforcement and PII governance — helping organizations protect critical infrastructure without slowing down engineering velocity.
Cloud Architecture & Platform Engineering
I design and build resilient, scalable infrastructure on AWS and GCP using Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern cloud-native tools. I focus on paved-road platforms that developers can trust under production pressure.
GenAI & AI Security Research
I build LLM-powered developer tools that streamline workflows, and I research adversarial threats to AI systems — including RAG pipeline poisoning and embedding manipulation (EmbedGuard), CI/CD governance for GenAI (GenOps), and screen-share content mediation (PerceptFence).
DevSecOps & Distributed Systems Design
I architect event-driven microservices and CI/CD platforms that handle millions of requests. I help teams embed security into every layer of the development lifecycle, enabling speed and safety simultaneously.
Experience & Education
Staff-level engineer building scalable, secure, and reliable systems since 2011 across fintech, e-commerce, AR/VR, and financial services.
Bachelor of Technology — Electrical & Electronics Engineering
RVR JC College of Engineering, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Graduated with First Class distinction.
Parafin (Dec 2025–Present) — Staff Security Infrastructure Engineer
Architecting Zero Trust security infrastructure for an embedded-lending platform with $35B+ in capital offers extended to 50,000+ businesses across partners including Amazon, DoorDash, Walmart, Gusto, and TikTok Shop. Leading security mock drills, incident response planning, BC/DR strategy, and PII governance at a YC-backed fintech.
Meta — Reality Labs (Jun 2024–Dec 2025) — Staff Software Engineer
Led CI/CD modernization (Project Chesterfield) for Quest VR and Ray-Ban Meta products. Built a GenAI-powered migration tool that eliminated 95% of manual onboarding effort and saved $386K/year. Architected a Unified Build Model metadata service for 100K+ build operations/month, reducing failures by 99% and reclaiming 22K compute-hours/month. Mentored 6 senior engineers, 3 of whom were promoted to Staff within 12 months.
Raymond James Financial (Apr 2024–Jun 2024) — Lead Software Development Engineer
Delivered a document generation platform processing 8K–12K documents/month with 99.2% success rate. Established a 95% code coverage standard and quality culture across a team of 8 engineers.
Wayfair (Jan 2022–Mar 2024) — Technical Architect
Spearheaded a DevSecOps transformation increasing vulnerability scan coverage to 50M+ checks/month and cutting incident response time by 40%. Built a next-generation OAuth 2.0 authentication platform handling 125M+ API calls/week at 99.97% uptime. Selected as 1 of 3 architects from 50+ candidates for the company-wide security roadmap. Mentored 20+ engineers (8 promoted to senior/staff).
JPMorgan Chase — CIB (Mar 2019–Dec 2021) — Senior Software Engineer
Developed an escrow platform managing $40B+ in deposits and a Saga-pattern payment microservice processing 10K+ daily transactions. Unified three data systems into one portal, reducing support volume by 30%, and built a centralized authentication framework adopted by 18+ CIB teams.
American Express — via TCS (Dec 2011–Mar 2019) — Senior Software Developer
Re-engineered monolithic claims and card-processing systems into microservices architecture, achieving 60% complexity reduction and 66% faster API response times. Built event-driven B2B integrations handling 2M+ monthly requests across 15+ carrier partners. Migrated COBOL-based loyalty logic to Spring MVC across 30 international markets. Worked across Bangalore, Montevideo (Uruguay), and Phoenix.
Engineering Superpowers
Building mission-critical systems since 2011 has sharpened a broad toolkit. Here are the areas where I bring the most value — from security architecture to AI/ML systems to distributed infrastructure.
