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Some nights I feel like Taleb has stolen my voice, sharpened it with Mediterranean salt, and thrown it back at me. A reflection on chaos, growth, a...
Read more →A crisp, hands-on playbook to make security the default across web, mobile, APIs, and cloud—built for a Node on ECS + middleware on EKS stack—and t...
Read more →A candid build-and-ship story: why we moved to field-level encryption, how Transit fits, the migration that didn’t melt the pager, and the outage t...
Read more →What distributed systems are, why we build them, where the risks hide, and how to make security the default—explained crisply, like you and I are w...
Read more →Code → Container → Compute → Cluster → Cloud → CDN
Read more →Threat Modeling for Products & Distributed Systems
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Read more →A phased, product-centric approach to securing multi-cloud network — from immediate threat mitigation to zero trust adoption.
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Zero-trust architectures, BYOK implementations, tenant isolation, and enterprise security patterns.
ML pipeline security, model governance, adversarial defense, and AI safety in production systems.
Security automation, CI/CD hardening, policy as code, and developer-centric security tooling.
Microservices security, service mesh, event-driven architectures, and runtime monitoring.