Lohith Gowda M on Tal
Headline
Staff Application Security @Atomicwork
About
Staff Application Security Engineer with 7 years in the field, now focused on securing AI. I red team AI systems and pressure-test MCP servers and agentic workflows, the attack surface most security teams are still catching up on. At Atomicwork I'm building the application security program from the ground up: AI red teaming, architecture and API reviews, shipping the fixes myself, and wiring security into CI/CD so problems get caught before production. What I bring: - Prompt injection, broken authentication and authorization, and tool-abuse testing for AI and agentic systems - Application security across APIs, web, mobile (iOS and Android), and AWS, with SAST, DAST, SCA/SBOM, and mobile reverse engineering - Building and leading application security programs, often from scratch, across Atomicwork, Acko, Plivo, Airmeet, and Reward360 (fintech, insurtech, and B2B SaaS) - Responsible disclosures recognized by Amazon, Google, Cloudflare, Cursor, Loom, and WeWork - Standout finds: 1.2M+ user PII exposed through IDOR, a banking KYC bypass, a Firefox CVE, and a Naukri API bug that made TechCrunch I also once bypassed Bangalore Namma Metro's QR fare system to ride for ₹1 and wrote it up on my blog. If you're hiring for application or AI security, or want to trade notes on MCP and agent security, I'm easy to reach
AI stack
claude code
claude
perplexity
Devin
E2B
Wispr Flow
Work experience
Staff Application Security Engineer at Atomicwork, Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos, Bengaluru
Senior Security Engineer at Acko, Jun 2025 - Jan 2026 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Web, Mobile , Cloud Security and DevSecOps
Senior Security Engineer at Plivo, Jun 2023 - Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Web, API, Cloud Security and DevSecOps
Senior Security Engineer at Airmeet, Jun 2021 - May 2023 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Web, Mobile and API Security
Security Engineer at Reward360 Global Services Pvt Ltd., Jul 2019 - Jun 2021 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Web Application Security
Education
Bachelor's degree BCA, Computer Programming, Specific Applications, St Philomena College (Autonomous), Puttur
Personal Finance, Personal Finance, 1% Club
Public links
github: https://github.com/lohigowda
medium: https://medium.com/@lohigowda
lohigowda.in: https://www.lohigowda.in/
