Ankush Jain
Co-Founder & CTO at Akto.io
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkush Jain is a Co-Founder and CTO based in San Francisco with a 15-year background spanning engineering, data science, and machine learning, now focused on building secure API tooling at Akto.io. He combines hands-on backend development—evidenced by significant contributions to the open-source Akto API security project, including API catalog synchronization and CI/CD test execution—with product leadership in a startup environment. Earlier experience as a quantitative associate at Morgan Stanley and a research internship at Microsoft Research give him a strong analytical foundation for building reliable, data-driven systems. An IIT Bombay computer science graduate with top grades, he blends rigorous academic training with practical startup execution. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves quickly from prototype to hardened infrastructure while keeping security and observability front and center.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Github Skills (11)
javas10
api-security10
java10
api-testing10
devops9
testing9
json8
authorization7
authorizations7
authentication7
user-authentication7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
akto-api-security/akto
Dec 2021 - Mar 2023
Akto is the fastest growing AI Security platform for your teams to secure AI agents, MCPs, LLMs, Agent skills, Gen AI apps in your organization.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:262 reviews, 620 commits, 426 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ankush primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Akto API security project. Their commits show significant changes to the `APICatalogSync.java` file, indicating involvement in API catalog synchronization and processing HTTP responses. The user also made changes in the `TestExecutor.java` file, suggesting work on the testing framework and test execution logic. Overall, the user focused on the core functionality related to API discovery, security posture, and testing within the Akto project.
aiai-agentai-securityai-security-governanceai-security-prompt-injection-llm-security
akto-api-security/chrome_plugin
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 29 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
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