Krishnan Narayan

Krishnan Narayan is a seasoned engineering lead renowned for his expertise in security problems and distributed systems. He is deeply passionate about technology and excels at applying innovative solutions to address real-world challenges. Krishnan harbors a keen interest in entrepreneurship and has a strong track record of impacting new businesses with his extensive background in engineering.

With a successful history in architecting, building, and running large-scale distributed system platforms in the cloud efficiently and securely, Krishnan combines his ability to innovate rapidly with a balanced approach to product vision and engineering feasibility. Drawing from his specialization in security, he advocates for best practices within engineering organizations, making data-driven decisions to ensure that tasks are executed optimally.

Krishnan Narayan is adept at donning multiple roles within an organization, with experience ranging from small to large companies. He actively mentors engineers and managers across various levels, imparting valuable skills in engineering, domain expertise, task management, and estimation.

His academic background includes a Master's degree in Information Security from Georgia Institute of Technology, a certificate of completion in Astrophysics from Duke University, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Science from M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology.

Throughout his career, Krishnan has held key positions at reputable organizations, notably serving as an Architect at Palo Alto Networks, an Advisor, and Investor at Alumni Ventures Group, and holding various software engineering roles at Symantec, PacketVideo, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, and Samsung Telecommunications America.