Summary
Nivathan Athiganoor Somasundharam is a founder and CEO with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure, DevSecOps practices, and identity security for Fortune 100s and fast-growing startups. Now leading a stealth Agentic AI company in the Bay Area, he’s focused on automating continuous compliance and security with context-aware multi-agent systems. His background spans architecting Kubernetes and IaaC at scale (VMware, 8x8, Cradlepoint) and driving enterprise adoption and multimillion-dollar growth through Zero Trust and identity initiatives at Teleport and Flexport. He combines product-minded customer engineering—having grown contracts 10x–25x—with deep technical delivery, from open-sourced integrations to CI/CD and observability platforms. A first-time founder who bootstrapped and exited an e-commerce brand in India, he brings entrepreneurial grit informed by global security research contributions to the Cloud Security Alliance. Less obvious: he pairs rigorous cloud engineering pedigree with product enablement expertise, enabling rapid time-to-value for complex security deployments.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Product Management, Certificate, Product Management at Product School
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Texas A&M University
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology at Anna University Chennai
English, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada