Krishna Sankar
SVP Distinguished Engineer AI at OWASP Top 10 For Large Language Model Applications
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolKrishna Sankar is an SVP Distinguished Engineer specializing in AI, with 13 years of experience applying ML, NLP, and systems engineering to deliver mission-critical solutions in finance, automotive, and cloud infrastructure. Based in San Jose, he leads AI safety, red teaming and explainability initiatives at U.S. Bank and serves as PI for the NIST AI Safety Institute while contributing to OWASP’s LLM security guidance. His career blends deep research and hands-on delivery—building fraud detection, explainable loan underwriting, enterprise knowledge graphs, and autonomous vehicle decision stacks—while driving bank-wide AI strategy and MLOps. He pairs a rare mix of network/security background from Cisco and cloud-scale architecture experience with modern generative-AI guardrails, making him equally at home in protocol-level optimizations and model-risk governance. Known for teaching and writing, he often translates complex technical trade-offs into pragmatic, auditable systems that prioritize trust and regulatory alignment. An underappreciated thread in his work is applying game-theoretic and reinforcement-learning ideas to real-world orchestration and negotiation problems across domains.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's/Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering (Production) Production Engineering, Master's/Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering (Production) Production Engineering at IndiaNanoDegree Deep Reinforcement Learning, NanoDegree Deep Reinforcement Learning at UdacityMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of Detroit MercyMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration and Management General at University of MichiganProfessional Certificate Artificial Intelligence-NLP/NLU, Professional Certificate Artificial Intelligence-NLP/NLU at Stanford University
Github Skills (16)
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
python10
bookdown9
data-science9
ml9
r9
deep-neural-networks9
neural-network9
polars6
data-analysis5
pandas5
pydata5
reinforcement-learning2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
xsankar/cautious-octo-waffle
Aug 2016 - Feb 2019
Pandas tutorial pydata SFO 2016 Notebooks & Data
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 2 years 6 months
polarspythondata-analysisdata-sciencesfo
xsankar/fdps-v3
Dec 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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