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Senior Security Research Engineer II at Harness

About

I design and develop advanced security systems that protect applications at scale. Currently at Harness.io (Traceable AI), I focus on creating intelligent security tools that move beyond detection to actively reduce noise and prioritize what matters. My work spans the full security stack, from building AI-powered API discovery tools and RASP solutions to developing high-performance WAF enhancements that took industry-standard ratings from F to A+. I've architected triaging agents using MCP that cut manual workload for security teams, created sophisticated confidence scoring engines for threat detection, and built external attack surface discovery tools that remain in active use. I'm passionate about offensive security research and tooling. I've presented at OWASP AppSec EU and DEF CON's AppSec Village, sharing work on WAF evasion testing and payload obfuscation. I contribute to open-source security projects including Coraza, CrAPI, and my own project Obfuskit, a complete WAF efficacy testing toolkit.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

codex

cursor

opencode

Work experience

Senior Security Research Engineer II at Harness, Feb 2026 - Present · 7 mos

Senior Security Research Engineer I at Harness, Mar 2025 - Feb 2026 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Security Research Engineer II at Traceable AI, Jul 2022 - Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bangalore

Intern at Traceable AI, Mar 2022 - May 2022 · 3 mos

Intern at Qualcomm at Qualcomm, May 2021 - Jul 2021 · 3 mos

Summer Intern at National Institute of Technology Calicut, Apr 2020 - May 2020 · 2 mos

Education

BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, National institute of technology Calicut

Public links

github: https://github.com/soujanyanmbri