Arjun Rao
Senior AI Security Engineer
Chennai, India · Asia/Kolkata (UTC+5:30) · 13 years of experience
Arjun focuses on securing AI applications, data paths, model supply chains, and agent permissions.
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AI-specific threat modeling
Covers prompt injection, sensitive-data exposure, unsafe tool use, model supply chains, and excessive agency.
Least-privilege architecture
Scopes identities, tools, data access, secrets, and network paths to the minimum required for each workload.
Adversarial validation
Turns abuse cases and incidents into repeatable tests, monitoring signals, and response playbooks.
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Kubernetes SecurityLLM Red TeamingSIEMDelivery evidence
Selected work
Enterprise AI Security Standard
financial servicesDesigned and delivered a AI security programme focused on secure AI architecture and governance; standardized risk gates for 23 AI use cases across engineering and compliance teams. The release included threat models, least-privilege controls, adversarial tests, logging, and incident playbooks mapped to OWASP guidance.
AI Architecture Review Workflow
financial services operationsBuilt the supporting control and measurement layer for the primary system, covering review queues, regression checks, operational visibility, and a documented handoff to the owning team.
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Career timeline
Senior AI Security Engineer
2022–PresentDevlyn client assignments · Remote
- Led secure AI architecture and governance delivery for a financial services team and standardized risk gates for 23 AI use cases across engineering and compliance teams.
AI Security Engineer
2012–2021financial services product company (confidential) · Chennai, India
- Built production systems in financial services, with increasing ownership of reliability, testing, and stakeholder delivery.
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AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Amazon Web Services · 2023 · Certified
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
Cloud Native Computing Foundation · 2026 · Certified
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English
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