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# Tejas Narayana on Tal

## Headline

Let’s talk about privacy, security and startups\!

## About

As an engineer and a researcher, my expertise lies in solving problems using technology and transforming ideas to reality\. I'm passionate about research in applied cryptography, privacy technologies, and security in AI, IoT, OT and in the Space domain\. I also love red teaming\. What's your favorite honeypot?🍯

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

ollama

claudecode

huggingface

OpenRouter

Promptfoo

vLLM

## Work experience

Director of Engineering and Research at Globals Inc\., Oct 2025 \- Present · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Problem solver\. I own Engineering and R&D, responsible for execution, stronger product decisions and always ensure high SNR \- Setting technical direction, driving innovation and defining the strategic vision \- Designing and architecting cutting\-edge hardware and software security products \- Building and empowering high\-performance teams of problem solvers and product craftsmen \- Takeling the technical seat in the client, investor and leadership conversations\!

Security Researcher at Globals Inc\., Oct 2023 \- Sep 2025 · 2 yrs, Technical architect for advanced security hardware and software products\.

Security Researcher at Full\-time, Oct 2022 \- Sep 2023 · 1 yr, Helped early stage startups as a consultant architect, building features to enhance security in their products\.

Researcher at COSIC \(KU Leuven\), Feb 2022 \- Mar 2022 · 2 mos, Leuven, This project was developed as part of the XILINX Adaptive Computing Challenge 2021\. Developed hw/sw interface to XMRig, an open\-source cross platform miner that supports CryptoNight Haven POW\. This interface integrates the host\-side miner using XRT APIs \(Xilinx based\) to the RTL kernel which is the hardware accelerator for cryptominer\.

Senior Embedded Software Engineer at ilumi solutions, inc\., Nov 2018 \- Aug 2019 · 10 mos, Bangalore, At ilumi, I led the overall design and development of the Meshtek IoT Gateway platform architecture, the core objective was to help scale a reliable and secure network infrastructure and targeting new applications in the connected space\.

Senior Software Engineer at WINIX Technologies, Jul 2016 \- Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore, Founding engineering team at Winix\. Built intelligent Wireless Solutions and Platforms that enabled our wireless surround sound speakers, wireless cameras, trackers, and many IoT products using our self\-reconfiguring mesh network stack\. As a ODM our problem statement was on how soon can an OEM have enterprise\-grade, stable and reliable wireless products and go to market\. We were a three member initial team with one vision of building great electronics out of India\. My most contributed areas: firmware and software development for self reconfigurable wifi mesh network, device discovery for easy and secure commissioning, command and control, data acquisitionl, secure firmware upgrades, responsible for end\-to\-end development \(board bringup, device drivers, userspace applications, web dashboards, android applications\) and technology leadership and team mentoring\.

## Education

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering, bangalore university

## Public links

- x\.com: https://x\.com/narayantejas

[View the original profile](https://tal.club/meet/tejas-n-1)

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