Yogi Porla
Global Solutions Manager - Secure Innovation
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYogi Porla is a seasoned cybersecurity and AI engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building zero-trust architectures and cloud-native systems, now driving secure innovation at Google. As founder and CTO he architected a Context Aware Zero Trust Platform to secure AI communications and transactions, and previously led open-source trust initiatives at HPE integrating Istio, Spire, and trust federation efforts. He combines hands-on engineering—from front-end contributions to notable open-source projects like Layer5—with program-level execution at national labs and enterprise R&D. Known for turning research-grade ideas into production-ready security primitives, he has a track record of pioneering service identity, multilevel attestation, and passwordless datastore protections. Based in Austin, he pairs academic rigor (MS in Information Systems Engineering) with entrepreneurial grit to solve pragmatic, auditable security problems at scale.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Information Systems Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Information Systems Engineering at University of Mississippi
Github Skills (12)
html10
gatsbyjs10
javascript9
css9
cloud-native8
carbon-design-system7
system-design7
sys7
system7
visualization6
visualizations6
configuration-management5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
layer5io/layer5
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Layer5, expect more from your infrastructure
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 29 PRs, 22 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Yogi primarily focused on front-end development, making changes to the user interface and layout of the website. Their commits involved modifying existing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files, including updating the Meshery playground, and incorporating new functionality columns for service mesh features. They also worked on creating and updating various layouts, including those for books, workshops, and posts. The user’s work included adding color coding by category to tables and refining the design of the landing page.
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yogi4/aria2-initrd
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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