I'm a software engineer at SecureMachines, working on Cloud HSM: the cloud services and infrastructure that let applications use hardware security modules remotely, across both cloud and on-prem. Right now I'm the primary engineer connecting our HSMs to a national identity system that serves over a billion people. On the side, I maintain pqc, a post-quantum cryptography library that other developers use.
Where I spend my days right now.
A few projects I made end to end, outside of work.
Post-quantum cryptography for JavaScript
A pure-JavaScript implementation of the NIST post-quantum standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA, covering FIPS 203, 204 and 205), built for the web with no native dependencies and an accompanying research paper.
An interactive, in-browser visualizer for post-quantum algorithms that runs the real pqc library live.
An LLM and ML component recommender with a PostgreSQL compatibility engine and an ETL pipeline.
A career-exploration platform for rural students, optimized for low-bandwidth devices and networks.
The tools I reach for most.
I also have AWS and Google Cloud training and a handful of machine-learning and data-science certificates, but most of what I use day to day I learned by building the things above.
The short version.
I studied computer science and joined SecureMachines right after. Most of what I know I learned by building things and taking them apart: web apps, data pipelines, a machine-learning project, a cryptography library, and now the cloud infrastructure behind hardware security modules.
I'm not tied to one stack or one domain. I move across web, data, machine learning, cryptography and low-level systems, and I pick up new tools quickly, so I can slot into most kinds of software work. What I enjoy most are the problems close to the hardware, where a small mistake is the difference between secure and not, and I like making complicated systems simple enough for other people to actually use.
Outside of work I build PCs, run a small home lab, tinker with Linux, throw darts, and watch far too many films. I recently moved to Bengaluru for this job, and I'm slowly learning Kannada.
I read everything that comes in.
Happy to talk about cryptography, HSMs, cloud infrastructure, or any interesting systems problem. The quickest way to reach me is email.