Summary
Ram Krishnan is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of experience architecting secure, cloud-native systems and now leads AI Security Architecture at JPMorgan Chase to close the โAccountability Gapโ for agentic AI in regulated environments. He blends deep expertise in silicon-rooted trust, software-defined networking, and confidential computing to design verifiable, residency-aware workloads and privacy-preserving RAG and federated learning solutions. Previously a strategic advisor driving IETF standardization for Zero-Trust Sovereign AI and an open-source catalyst for LF Edgeโs AegisSovereignAI, Ram has held senior technical leadership roles at Intel, VMware, Dell, Brocade and Red Hat. An inventor with 24 patents and multiple IEEE papers, he is a frequent speaker at KubeCon and Confidential Computing Summit and is creating an academic syllabus on Zero Trust for AI agents. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines systems-level rigor with practical governance know-how, uniquely positioning hardware-rooted attestation as the bridge between regulators and modern AI deployments.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Electrical Communication Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Electrical Communication Engineering at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Management Science and Engineering Graduate Certificate Management Science and Engineering, Management Science and Engineering Graduate Certificate Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University