Hi, I'm Akshay, a software engineer specializing in agentic security.

I build agentic security workflows and the backend platforms that run them in production, at scale.

Now

Building an AI-native platform for detection engineering and incident response at Amazon.

Stack & tools

Languages

Cloud

Infrastructure

Systems

Security & AI

Experience

  1. Amazon current 2021 – now

    Software Development Engineer II

    Build core parts of an AI-native security automation platform, and run the infrastructure behind a threat detection platform that handles 20PB+ a day at 99.99% uptime.

  2. MathWorks 2020

    Cloud Software Engineering Intern

    Deployed MATLAB Parallel Server reference architectures on Google Cloud with infrastructure-as-code and Packer image pipelines.

  3. MathWorks 2018 – 2019

    Software Engineer in Testing

    Built C++ benchmarking and unit testing frameworks for MATLAB's file system APIs.

  4. Research & internships 2016 – 2018

    Container intrusion detection research at PES University, plus internships at Juniper Networks and PwC.

contact

Let's talk

About detection platforms, security automation or agentic AI.

akshayma@gmail.com

projectsThings I've built

Paper · SSCC 2019 Intrusion detection for Docker containers Real-time IDS using n-grams of system calls. 87–97% accuracy, 44 citations. Python · Cryptography Secure electronic voting Encrypted ballots and a Merkle tree per candidate to verify the tally. React · Node.js News aggregator Top stories from the NYT and Guardian APIs, with search and bookmarks. JavaScript · D3 · MATLAB Interactive charts in PowerPoint An add-in that renders live D3 charts from MATLAB Production Server.