Ayush Kumar

About Ayush Kumar

All things cyber-security, cryptography, venture capital, and startups.

Experience

1. Principal Product Manager

   Cloudflare

   Oct 2025 — Present

   Building the ML foundation for Cloudflare’s new Security Intelligence and Detections (SID) team to unify how we catch threats across the entire platform- Turning Cloudflare’s massive data advantage into real-time detection signals by researching and deploying new ML models at scale- Leveraging LLMs and generative AI to automate the triage of security signals cutting down false-positive rates and speeding up how we fix false negatives- Scaling detection engines for AV, sandboxing, and automated threat feeds to improve security across Gateway, DLP, and Email products- Owning detection efficacy with a focus on cutting down false positives and speeding up how quickly we fix false negatives through automated workflows- Shipping research into production by partnering with Cloudforce One to turn high-level threat intel into active defense models- Creating a \"single source of truth\" for intelligence so every product team can plug into a centralized detection engine.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  2021 — 2023

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering

  2014 — 2018

Skills

• Teamwork
• Css
• Customer Service
• C++
• Html
• Outlook
• Microsoft Office
• English
• Python
• Bootstrap
• Management
• Photoshop
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Javascript
• Windows
• Microsoft Word
• Data Entry
• Public Speaking
• Leadership
• C#
• Ruby on Rails