Senior software engineer based in Bengaluru, ~7 years across backend, distributed systems, and cloud platform engineering. Currently building software supply chain security infrastructure at Guidewire; previously 6 years at Cisco (Grade 8 / Senior Software Developer at exit).
Active focus areas on personal time:
- Confidential computing — Confidential Containers, Kata, Trustee. Contributing upstream to the CNCF Sandbox project.
- AI infrastructure & applied LLMs — production-grade RAG, LLM serving + distillation, agentic systems on Kubernetes. Numbers-led, eval-driven.
OSS — active contributor to CNCF Sandbox Confidential Containers and adjacent projects (Kata, Trustee, guest-components). Merged PRs →
Stack I reach for most: Go, Java, Python · Kubernetes · AWS · Kafka · Terraform · PostgreSQL · Redis · Sigstore · GUAC · PyTorch · vLLM.
Reach me via Agrek11 on GitHub.

