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title: "Shivdeep Singh - Founding AI Engineer in Hyderabad | Tal"
description: "Meet Shivdeep Singh, Founder, Airlock — Identity & policy enforcement for AI agents | Ex-NPCI (UPI · CBDC) based in Hyderabad. AI stack includes hugging face, langchain, and langgraph. Explore public work links including github."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/shivdeep-singh/share-image"
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# Shivdeep Singh on Tal

## Headline

Founder, Airlock — Identity & policy enforcement for AI agents \| Ex\-NPCI \(UPI · CBDC\)

## About

I spent five years inside India's national payments infrastructure at NPCI — automation for UPI \(723M\+ peak daily transactions across 300\+ banks\), core infrastructure for the Digital Rupee \(CBDC rollout across 50\+ banks\), and most recently leading enterprise AI strategy, where I built and deployed the org\-wide generative AI platform\. Payments taught me one discipline: no action moves without authorization, and every decision leaves a record that survives an audit\. Then AI agents started acting — writing code, touching data, executing workflows — with none of that discipline\. A prompt\-injected agent doesn't produce "harmful content"; it performs a legitimate operation the wrong way, and no guardrail catches it\. That's not a content problem\. It's an access\-control problem\. Now I build Airlock full\-time: cryptographic identity for every agent, a deterministic policy check on every action before it executes, and signed, tamper\-evident receipts an auditor can verify\. Same input, same verdict — whatever model is driving\. Policy, not probability\. Open protocol, Apache\-2\.0 SDKs: github\.com/airlock\-protocol/airlock · Product: airlock\.ing If your team is putting agents into production — or wondering how you'd prove what your agents did — I'd genuinely like to compare notes: contact@airlock\.ing

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

hugging face

langchain

langgraph

mcp

claudecode

LiteLLM

## Work experience

Founding AI Engineer at Airlock, Jun 2026 \- Present · 2 mo, Remote, Building Airlock — the enforcement and evidence layer for AI agents\. Agents can now act: run code, touch data, move workflows\. Airlock sits between an agent and its tools, verifies who the agent is, checks every action against deterministic policy before it executes, and produces a signed, tamper\-evident receipt of every decision\. Policy, not probability\. Open protocol \(Ed25519, OAuth 2\.1, W3C DID — Apache\-2\.0 SDKs\) with a commercial enforcement product on top\. → airlock\.ing

Senior Associate AI Enterprise Architect at National Payments Corporation Of India \(NPCI\), Aug 2025 \- Jun 2026 · 11 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Directly collaborate with executive leadership to formulate and execute NPCI's corporate AI strategy, driving the transition to an AI\-first organization\. Key Achievements: Zero\-to\-One Product Leadership: Led the strategic vision, architecture, and single\-handed development of Project N — an on\-premises Enterprise AI Co\-Pilot achieving 90% reduction in routine coding and information retrieval time\. Platform Architecture & Deployment: Architected, built, and deployed a secure, org\-wide Generative AI Platform with enterprise\-grade Conversational AI and Code Generation capabilities, serving the entire organization and boosting productivity across teams\. C\-Suite Buy\-In: Proactively identified a critical organizational need for secure generative AI, independently developed functional prototypes, and presented the vision and business case to the CEO and C\-suite\. R&D & Future\-Proofing: Pioneered a long\-range research initiative on hypothesis\-driven learning to reduce data dependency and build compounding intelligence systems for future business challenges\.

Senior Associate Devops \- CBDC at National Payments Corporation Of India \(NPCI\), Jul 2023 \- Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Core infrastructure engineer for India's Central Bank Digital Currency \(Digital Rupee\) — one of the most critical digital currency initiatives globally\. Infrastructure at Scale: Designed and managed Kubernetes\-based container orchestration and Terraform\-provisioned cloud infrastructure supporting CBDC deployment across 50\+ banks nationwide\. CI/CD Pipeline Engineering: Built and maintained end\-to\-end CI/CD pipelines ensuring zero\-downtime deployments for a system handling real\-time digital currency transactions\. DevOps Culture: Established monitoring, alerting, and observability practices for mission\-critical financial infrastructure with 99\.9%\+ uptime requirements\. Cross\-Bank Coordination: Collaborated with 50\+ banking partners on integration, deployment, and operational readiness for the Digital Rupee rollout\.

Senior / Associate UPI QA & Automation at National Payments Corporation Of India \(NPCI\), Jul 2021 \- Jul 2023 · 2 y, Hyderabad, Led quality assurance and automation for UPI \(Unified Payments Interface\) — India's real\-time payment system processing 723M\+ peak daily transactions across 300\+ banks\. → Test Automation at Scale: Designed and implemented comprehensive automation frameworks for validating payment flows across hundreds of banking integrations\. → Performance & Reliability: Ensured transaction processing reliability at massive scale — supporting the world's largest real\-time payments ecosystem\. → Cross\-Functional Leadership: Coordinated testing strategies across multiple banking partners and internal engineering teams\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Software Engineering, Chitkara University

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/shivdeep1

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