Venkata Sai Kishore Modalavalasa
Securing Everything AI | Straiker | OWASP
- Role
- Chief Architect at Straiker
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Venkata Sai Kishore Modalavalasa
Venkata Sai Kishore Modalavalasa is the Chief Architect and Engineering Leader at Straiker, where he builds security products to protect Agentic applications at scale. With over a decade of experience in cybersecurity and distributed systems, he has taken products from 0 to 1, scaling Cyberfend from a startup to its acquisition by Akamai. At Akamai, he led engineering efforts in bot detection and web security, developing advanced detection engines, building large-scale security platforms, and guiding high-performing teams.He is a Resident Expert Contributor at AI Cyber Magazine, where he shares practitioner-focused insights on securing modern AI systems and accelerating the adoption of safe, trustworthy AI.Beyond his professional roles, Mr. Modalavalasa is an active contributor to the security community. He is an author and named contributor to initiatives such as the OWASP AI Exchange, AI BOM, the Top 10 for Agentic Applications, and the OWASP GenAI Security Project. He is also the creator and co-lead of OWASP FinBot - an agentic security CTF open-source platform, advancing research and hands-on learning in emerging AI security challenges. He holds multiple cybersecurity patents, reflecting his commitment to innovation at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and security.
Experience
Chief Architect
Jun 2024 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US
Code. Break. Secure. Repeat.
Education
Santa Clara University
Master's degree, Computer Engineering
2014 — 2016
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
B.E.(Hons), Computer Science
2007 — 2011
Skills
- Mysql
- Distributed Systems
- Core Java
- Apache
- Git
- Nginx
- Jquery
- Cakephp
- Actionscript
- Photoshop
- Javascript
- Web Development
- C++
- Html
- Software Development
- Python
- Hbase
- Mongodb
- C
- Agile Methodologies
- Rest
- Big Data
- Opencv
- Algorithms
- Machine Learning
- Android
- Illustrator
- Ibm as/400
- Hadoop
- Ruby on Rails
- Java
- Ruby
- Sql
- Linux
- Php
- Css
- Django
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