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HARSHJANNAWAR

Security Engineer working on application & AI security, building the guardrails between AI agents and the damage they can do.

M.S. Cybersecurity Engineering at the University of Washington. Previously SecureAIs, SecureThings, and the Pune Metro Rail Project.

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About

I ship security tooling, not just findings.

Security Engineer who builds secure, resilient systems and ships security tooling rather than just finding problems. Experienced across application security, detection engineering, cloud, and AI/LLM security, aligned with OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK, and NIST.

Most of what I build answers one question: how do you let an AI system be genuinely useful without letting it be dangerous? That has become a transparent MCP proxy that enforces per-tool policy on every agent call, a red-team suite mapped to the OWASP LLM Top 10, and a SOC assistant that writes incident reports from playbooks and raw logs.

At SecureAIs I ran adversarial testing against production AI platforms and found 20+ critical issues including authentication bypass, prompt injection, and token leakage before any of it shipped, then built the PII detection and redaction pipeline that pushed sensitive-data protection accuracy from 65% to 95%.

At SecureThings I spent a year on the build side: an event-driven scanning platform in Dockerized async Python that cut asset analysis from nine hours to under thirty minutes, a lightweight telemetry agent for devices with almost no RAM to spare, and AWS/Azure hardening across 25+ security gaps.

My M.S. thesis at the University of Washington, an AI Security Compliance and Testing Framework for LLM Systems, is published through ProQuest.

Off the clock: CTFs with UWB GreyHats, cloud hardening rabbit holes, and writing up what breaks.

Education
University of Washington
M.S. Cybersecurity Engineering
Seattle, WA
Sep 2024Jun 2026
GPA 3.93 / 4.00
Symbiosis Skills and Professional University
B.Tech, CSIT (Cybersecurity)
Pune, India
Aug 2020May 2024
GPA 3.65 / 4.00
Capabilities
Security
  • Security development
  • Threat modeling
  • Application security
  • Penetration testing
  • Secure code review
  • DevSecOps
  • Vulnerability management
  • Detection engineering
Languages
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • Bash
  • SQL
Frameworks
  • ISO 27001 / 42001
  • NIST
  • SOC 2
  • OWASP Top 10
Tools
  • Burp Suite
  • Nmap
  • Nessus
  • Nuclei
  • Metasploit
  • Splunk
  • Git
Cloud
  • AWS
  • Lambda
  • S3
  • Docker
  • Container security
  • IAM
Data
  • MongoDB
  • Postgres
  • SQL
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Experience

Jun 2025Aug 2025
SecureAIs
California, USA

AI Cybersecurity Engineering Intern

  • 01Drove 40+ paying users by improving data protection accuracy from 65% to 95%: developed a PII detection and redaction pipeline using Presidio, regex-based validation, and packet analysis across 10k test samples.
  • 02Reduced security review cycles by 60% through CI/CD automation: integrated SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and secret detection into engineering pipelines to give continuous security feedback during development.
  • 03Identified 20+ critical vulnerabilities across AI platforms: ran adversarial testing and secure code reviews to uncover authentication bypass, prompt injection, and token leakage prior to production release.
  • 04Implemented end-to-end authentication flows across engineering services: built and tested secure login, session handling, token validation, role-based access control, and protected API routes to reduce unauthorized access risk.
PresidioAdversarial TestingSAST / DASTCI/CDAuthN / AuthZ
Jun 2023May 2024
SecureThings
Pune, India

Security Analyst Intern

  • 01Cut asset analysis time from 9+ hours to under 30 minutes: built an event-driven scanning platform with Dockerized asynchronous Python workflows running Nmap and Nuclei, deployed via AWS Lambda and ECS, normalizing findings against CVE, CWE, and EDB-ID before storing them in MongoDB and S3.
  • 02Built a lightweight device monitoring tool for resource-constrained security telemetry: data collection agents in Python and Bash for devices with limited RAM and storage, streaming logs to an EC2-hosted pipeline, with a dashboard to analyze security events.
  • 03Triaged 15+ high-severity vulnerabilities with validated exploits: performed application and infrastructure security assessments using Nessus, Nmap, and Burp Suite.
  • 04Remediated 25+ cloud and application security gaps: strengthened AWS and Azure environments through IAM permissions, container security controls, secrets handling, and exposed service configurations.
Python asyncioDockerAWS Lambda / ECSNucleiBurp SuiteMongoDB
Jun 2022Jul 2022
Pune Metro Rail Project
Pune, India

Security Intern

  • 01Reduced attack surface across 15+ findings: reviewed IAM roles and security group configurations across 20+ cloud resources, identifying over-permissive access and exposed services and recommending least-privilege changes.
  • 02Improved audit readiness and incident response coverage by 30%: mapped 12+ controls to monitoring signals in CloudWatch and GuardDuty, supporting alignment with ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
AWSIAMCloudWatchGuardDutyISO 27001NIST CSF

Full history in the résumé, linked below.

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Projects

AI is part of the attack surface now. These are the tools I built for it.

2026
Security Gateway for AI Agents

Inline Proxy

A transparent MCP proxy that enforces policy on every tool call an agent makes.

Role-aware policy on every tool: allow, block, redact, or route to human approval. The decision happens before an action runs rather than after, which is what lets it break the prompt-injection exfiltration chain instead of just recording it.

PythonasyncioMCPYAML PolicySIEM
Inline Proxy schematic
  • Blocks the full prompt-injection exfiltration chain, verified end to end: taint tracking stops a poisoned GitHub issue from publishing a repo's .env
  • 194 tools policed at roughly 0.1 ms p99, with 0% false positives across 200+ real tool descriptions
  • Default-deny policy packs for GitHub, Jira, and Slack, each extracted from upstream server source
  • OIDC identity, Ed25519-signed policy bundles, and SIEM audit streaming to Splunk and S3
2026
LLM Red-Team Suite

AegisLLM

Automated security testing for LLM applications, mapped to the OWASP LLM Top 10.

Runs thousands of injection and jailbreak prompts against a target, scores each one with LLM-as-a-Judge, and diffs the result against baseline models so a finding is a regression you can act on rather than a screenshot.

PythonFlaskOWASP LLM Top 10
AegisLLM schematic
  • Thousands of injection and jailbreak prompts, scored by LLM-as-a-Judge
  • Differential testing against baseline models to separate real findings from noise
  • ThreatForge, a genetic-algorithm prompt-evolution engine that breeds new attacks
  • Recon module fingerprints the target model, detects RAG, and enumerates connected tools
2026
Incident Investigation

SOC RAGBot

A SOC assistant that writes citation-aware incident reports from playbooks and raw logs.

Retrieval-augmented investigation for security analysts. It combines institutional knowledge with live log data and refuses to answer beyond what its sources support, so every claim binds back to where it came from.

PythonRAGLLM Ops
SOC RAGBot schematic
  • Citation-aware retrieval with enriched metadata and source binding to prevent hallucination
  • Semantic caching to cut latency on repeated investigations
  • Deterministic guard layer for prompt injection and jailbreak detection
  • Enterprise audit and replay layer capturing full interaction logs
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Commendations

Published
M.S. Thesis, University of Washington

AI Security Compliance and Testing Framework for LLM Systems. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 32738510.

Top 1%
TryHackMe

Ranked in the top one percent globally, across DevSecOps, penetration testing, red team, and blue team paths.

Winner
Capture The Flag, UWB GreyHats

Won the UW Bothell GreyHats CTF competition in applied exploitation and forensics.

Author
Published on Medium

Writes cybersecurity and technical blogs on AI security, cloud, and offensive tooling.

Certifications
  • CompTIA Security+
  • CompTIA PenTest+
  • DevSecOps (TryHackMe)
  • TCM Practical Ethical Hacking
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations
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