Venkata Sai Kishore Modalavalasa

CEO

Santa Clara, California, United States13 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering efforts in bot detection at Akamai.
  • Authored key initiatives in AI security.
  • Scaled Cyberfend from startup to acquisition.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a cybersecurity architect specializing in AI and distributed systems.

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Skills

Other Skills

Go (Programming Language)CJavaC++RubyPythonRuby on RailsMySQLPHPLinuxGitHTMLCSSJavaScriptjQuery

About

Venkata Sai Kishore Modalavalasa is the Chief Architect and Engineering Leader at Straiker, where he builds security products to protect Agentic applications at scale. With over a decade of experience in cybersecurity and distributed systems, he has taken products from 0 to 1, scaling Cyberfend from a startup to its acquisition by Akamai. At Akamai, he led engineering efforts in bot detection and web security, developing advanced detection engines, building large-scale security platforms, and guiding high-performing teams. He is a Resident Expert Contributor at AI Cyber Magazine, where he shares practitioner-focused insights on securing modern AI systems and accelerating the adoption of safe, trustworthy AI. Beyond his professional roles, Mr. Modalavalasa is an active contributor to the security community. He is an author and named contributor to initiatives such as the OWASP AI Exchange, AI BOM, the Top 10 for Agentic Applications, and the OWASP GenAI Security Project. He is also the creator and co-lead of OWASP FinBot - an agentic security CTF open-source platform, advancing research and hands-on learning in emerging AI security challenges. He holds multiple cybersecurity patents, reflecting his commitment to innovation at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and security.

Experience

13 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 11 mos
Current Experience

Straiker

Chief Architect

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States · On-site

  • Code. Break. Secure. Repeat. 🚀💻🔐

Akamai technologies

6 roles

Senior Lead Principal Software Engineer

Oct 2023 – Jun 2024 · 8 mos

  • Senior Principal Lead - Bot Manager Premier
  • Real-time web and mobile security.
  • Defending web from bots - Bot Manager Premier!

Lead Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Principal Lead - Bot Manager Premier
  • Real-time web and mobile security.
  • Defending web from bots - Bot Manager Premier!

Senior Lead Software Engineer II

Jul 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Team Lead - Bot Manager Premier
  • Real-time web and mobile security.
  • Defending web from bots - Bot Manager Premier!

Senior Lead Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2019 – Jun 2019 · 2 mos

  • Team Lead - Managing BMP
  • Real-time web and mobile security.
  • Defending web from bots - Bot Manager Premier!

Senior Software Engineer II

Jul 2018 – Mar 2019 · 8 mos

  • Real-time web and mobile security.
  • Defending web from bots - Bot Manager Premier!

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Real-time web and mobile security.
  • Defending web from bots - Bot Manager Premier!

Cyberfend, inc.

Software Engineer

May 2016 – Dec 2016 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Robust real-time web and mobile security
  • Defending top global internet properties across various verticals
  • Acquired by Akamai Technologies

Intel security

Graduate Technical Intern

Jun 2015 – Jan 2016 · 7 mos · Santa Clara, California

  • 1. Designed and developed scalable, sophisticated yet intuitive UI-ed analytics portal for organization wide data.
  • 2. Application interfaces with multiple data sources via REST and ODBC. (Django, PostgreSQL, Frontend technologies)
  • 3. Developed dynamic chart dimension, rendering logic and UI driven custom dashboards to eliminate developer effort for future requirements.
  • 4. Over 80 SWE hours’ savings/new requirement compared to an existing in-house product.
  • 5. Designed and developed Sharepoint website for agility team.
  • 6. Rated “Exceeds Expectations” – Intern performance review

Markkula center for applied ethics at santa clara university

Student Web Developer

Jun 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr · Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California

  • 1. Maintained ethics subsite of SCU with 3000+ pages and 2 million+ monthly unique visitors.
  • 2. Designed and developed new web pages, media, illustrations and newsletters.
  • 3. Developed tools and scripts to assist center's migration plans to university's newly planned content management system.

Ca technologies

Software Engineer

Jul 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad, India

  • Software Engineer (Jan 2013 - March 2014)**
  • 1. Ported critical modules of legacy Enterprise Manager Product to 64bit architecture in an Agile development environment.
  • 2. Developed code mapping tool to assist team for faster software development. (~200 SWE hours’ savings).
  • 3. Developed one-click automated build tool. Tool delivers nightly builds to QA and sends notifications at critical points.
  • 4. Developed Outlook plugin for Application Response product to support newer Microsoft Office architecture while maintaining backward compatibility.
  • 5. Developed continuous integration automation tools and BIRT reports for Tools and Engineering team.
  • 6. Rated 'Exceeded Expectations' during 2013 annual performance appraisal.
  • 7. Followed Agile Scrum methodology.
  • Associate Software Engineer (July 2011 - Jan 2013)**
  • 1. Squashed bugs and sustained eHealth Application Response product on Windows, Linux, Solaris and IBM AS400 platforms.
  • 2. Consistently achieved customer satisfaction index of 9.7+/10, highest in the Business Unit. (>$1M revenue)
  • Trainings and Workshops attended:**
  • 1. Agile Practices with Scrum
  • 2. Design Patterns
  • Other activities:**
  • 1. CA Hackathon: Developed Customer issue tracking application during 24hrs non-stop coding competition. Ranked in top 14/100+ teams participated.
  • 2. Fun Committee Organizer: Actively organized team outings and fun activities for entire Business Unit for two consecutive years.
  • 3. Green Team Volunteer: Actively volunteered to reduce paper bill usage in the organization.

Bharat heavy electricals limited (bhel) r&d

Student Intern

Jul 2010 – Dec 2010 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, India

  • 1. Developed touch driven Human Machine Interface to help power systems engineers remotely interact with 3 Phase Secondary injection simulation system.
  • 2. Developed low level Linux character device driver to interface with custom hardware.
  • 3. Helped reduce organization costs from $40,000 to $4,000 per unit installation.
  • 4. Project highlighted in "Annual BHEL R&D Engineering Highlights"

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

B.E.(Hons) — Computer Science

Jan 2007 – Jan 2011

Santa Clara University

Master's degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

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