Senior AVP, Information Security at EXL

Architecting cyber resilience for critical enterprise systems.

Pioneering Agentic AI Security, Post-Quantum Cryptography transition, and developer-first DevSecOps leadership.

10+

Years in AppSec & Cloud Security

35%

Avg. Vulnerability Reduction Delivered

4x

Enterprise Security Programs Led

70+

Bug Bounty Reports Triaged Annually

500+

Security Engineers Mentored

Where I Lead Cyber Defense

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Core Focus

Application Security

SAST, DAST, threat modeling, and secure architecture woven directly into engineering workflows.

Emerging

AI Security & Governance

Securing Agentic AI loops, prompt injection defenses, model drift mitigations, and Responsible AI policies.

Research

Quantum Security (PQC)

Post-Quantum Cryptography transition frameworks and hybrid cryptographic algorithms (ML-KEM, ML-DSA).

Automation

DevSecOps Architecture

Automated CI/CD security gates and developer-first pipelines that accelerate release velocity.

Strategy

Executive Leadership

Building high-performance security teams and risk governance across EXL, VMware, Atlassian, and Citrix.

Featured Research Paper

Mind the Gap: Exploiting AI Blind Spots in Fused Physical-Cyber Systems

Peer-reviewed research investigating adversarial evasion vectors in AI-augmented surveillance. Evaluates cross-modal confidence manipulation and automated defense protocols.

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Finding #1: Multi-Modal Desync

Cross-modal confidence threshold manipulation can mask adversarial physical evasion.

Finding #2: Post-Quantum Hybrid KEM

PQC transition requires dual-layer ML-KEM encapsulation to maintain backward security.

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