A Systems Engineer, an avid coder, working on solutions involving security and performance optimizations of cloud-native technologies. He has contributed towards several open sources including Linux Kernel and working closely with IETF Standards Working Groups (such as ROLL, 6lo, LWIG) and Linux Foundation Groups (such as Nephio, Open Horizon). Taken several projects from conception to market and is an active maintainer for CNCF project, "KubeArmor" and the lead author for IoT simulation framework "Whitefield". He co-founded Accuknox where they are enabling Runtime, Zero-Trust Security by leveraging Linux-LSM/eBPF for k8s and containerized/cloud-native/telco workloads. He has 22 patents and several publications to his name and is proud to be associated as a CNCF Ambassador.