Krishnan Narayan
Distinguished ML Engineer at Forbes Technology Council
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolKrishnan Narayan is a Distinguished ML Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-scale distributed systems, cybersecurity products, and applied machine learning, currently leading AI services and platform efforts from San Jose. He has architected and shipped multiple cloud and mobile security offerings that helped drive more than $700M in ARR and tackled high-scale telemetry challenges—operating platforms that process >100B events/day per site. A pragmatic innovator, he blends product sensibility with deep technical rigor across the code-to-cloud security lifecycle, from breaking monoliths into resilient microservices to shaping streaming data pipelines. Beyond engineering, he advises and invests in early-stage startups and serves on judging panels and thought leadership forums, reflecting a broad ecosystem influence. Unusually, his background spans astrophysics to information security, giving him a systems-first perspective on complex, real-world risk and scale problems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Astrophysics, Astrophysics at Duke UniversityMasters Information Security, Masters Information Security at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelors in Engineering Computer and Information Science, Bachelors in Engineering Computer and Information Science at M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, English
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Github Skills (58)
exchange-online9
kubernetes9
networking9
docker9
streamlit8
docker-compose8
golang8
docker-image7
exchange-web-services7
container7
java7
machine-learning7
horizon7
deep-learning7
go7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
keshy/CodeKata
Feb 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
keshy/ancestry_wiki
Jul 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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