Santosh Ananthakrishnan is a cloud and infrastructure security engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable systems for high-growth companies in the Bay Area. He has led cross-company initiatives at Block to implement security baselines across thousands of AWS and GCP environments and coached engineers up to staff level. Previously at Square and Dropbox he helped architect cloud migration defenses and built developer-facing security tools, including a Terraform static analysis service that scans hundreds of PRs daily and a misconfiguration remediation service with over a thousand findings resolved. Now at Anthropic, he brings hands-on engineering and product-minded security leadership to emerging AI infrastructure challenges. Trained in security at Georgia Tech and with a background in electrical engineering from IIT Bombay, he pairs academic rigor with practical threat detection and automation experience. Colleagues describe him as both a builder of durable systems and a pragmatic coach who scales security through tooling and culture.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science (Security), Master's Degree Computer Science (Security) at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Santosh Ananthakrishnan - Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic