Ritesh Agrawal — Director of Engineering
I've spent the last 10 years building and scaling backend platforms in cybersecurity — from writing the first lines of code to leading teams that own products serving 90%+ of the customer base. At Cyware, I lead engineering for the Orchestrate product — the automation and operationalization layer at the heart of the company's SOAR platform. Over the years, I've taken this from a monolithic system to a multi-tenant, microservices-based architecture that runs at 1/9th of the original infrastructure cost. More recently, I drove the company's first agentic AI initiative from concept to first version in under 3 months. Building AI-powered automation in a security context has sharpened my focus on AI safety and adversarial resilience. I actively practice AI red teaming — identifying abuse vectors, prompt manipulation techniques, and model misuse patterns that directly inform how we design guardrails into our agentic systems. On the threat hunting side, I work with Elastic-based investigation workflows across distributed, cloud-native environments — the same operational context our SOAR platform is built for. Security isn't a separate concern for me; it's the lens through which I evaluate every architectural decision. What I care about most is building teams that outlast any single project. I've mentored engineers from intern to senior-level contributors, hired 15+ engineers across the org, and conducted 300+ interviews — including 20+ for senior leadership roles. I believe great engineering orgs are built on clarity of ownership, honest feedback, and giving people room to grow into problems slightly bigger than they think they can handle. I'm also active in the Python community — I co-chaired PyCon India 2021 and help organize BangPypers, Bangalore's Python user group. Always happy to connect with people working on hard infrastructure, security, or AI safety problems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with a strong focus on AI and distributed systems.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 9 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Engineering Management
- Distributed Systems
- Software Engineering Practices
- Security
- Relational Databases
- Rest Apis
Career Highlights
- Led transition to microservices architecture.
- Drove agentic AI initiative in under 3 months.
- Mentored engineers from intern to senior roles.
Work Experience
Cyware
Senior Engineering Manager (1 yr 8 mos)
Engineering Manager (3 yrs 7 mos)
Software Architect (1 yr 9 mos)
Senior Software Engineer (11 mos)
Software Engineer (6 mos)
HackerEarth
Software Engineer (1 yr 6 mos)
Software Engineering Intern (3 mos)
Software Engineering Intern (1 mo)
Advaiya Solutions
Web Development Intern (1 mo)
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at The LNM Institute of Information Technology