For $8B fintech rails powering Amazon, DoorDash, Walmart & TikTok Shop. And for the AI systems we're all about to depend on.
Staff security engineer ร peer-reviewed AI-safety researcher. Today: Zero Trust at Parafin (YC, $750M valuation). Three peer-reviewed publications in 2026 โ open access, CC-BY 4.0: EmbedGuard (RAG security ยท IJCESEN, Scopus Q3) ยท GenOps (AI-in-CI/CD governance ยท JISEM, Scopus Q4 + DOAJ) ยท RuntimeGuard-AI (EU AI Act Article 14 compliance ยท JoCAAA).
name: Neeraj Kumar Singh Beshane
location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
current_role: Staff Security Infrastructure Engineer @ Parafin
previous: [Meta Reality Labs, Raymond James, Wayfair, JPMorgan Chase, American Express]
experience: 15+ years
focus: Security Infrastructure ร Distributed Systems ร AI Safety
publications: 3 peer-reviewed (2026) ยท 1 under review
writing: Technical articles on Medium and LinkedIn
speaking: Conf42 DevOps 2026 โ invited speakerThree peer-reviewed papers published in 2026 โ all open access (CC-BY 4.0). Each project bundles paper + code + (where applicable) invited talk.
Cross-Layer Detection and Provenance Attestation for Adversarial Embedding Attacks in RAG Systems ยท IJCESEN, Vol 12 No 1, pp 589โ602 ยท 2026-02-05
Production RAG systems are vulnerable to adversarial embeddings โ poisoned vectors that look right under cosine similarity but steer downstream generation. EmbedGuard combines embedding-space anomaly scoring with provenance attestation, so an attack has to defeat both layers at once.
Key results: 94.7% detection rate on optimization-based attacks ยท 51 ms mean latency overhead ยท evaluated on a 500K-embedding production-scale system ยท Docker-reproducible benchmarks.
A Governance-First Architecture for Embedding Generative AI into CI/CD Pipelines ยท JISEM, Vol 11(1s), pp 1518โ1539 ยท 2026-02-15 Companion talk: Conf42 DevOps 2026 โ invited speaker
A four-pillar framework for running GenAI inside production CI/CD without breaking governance: contextualization, strategic guardrails, deployment assurance, and governance audit trails.
Key results: 55.7% reduction in median deployment cycle time (52.8 โ 23.4 min, p < 0.001) ยท zero safety policy violations ยท 47.2% reduction in error-budget variance ยท evaluated across 15,847 deployments / 127 microservices / 8 months / 3 organizations.
Scalable Tamper-Evident Accountability for High-Risk AI Systems Under the EU AI Act ยท JoCAAA, Vol 35 No 1, pp 1074โ1090 ยท 2026-01-31
The first open-source compliance architecture for EU AI Act Article 14. Uses Groth16 zero-knowledge proofs on the bls12-381 curve to deliver cryptographically rigorous, tamper-evident audit trails inside a production latency budget.
Key results: 2.3โ4.1% latency overhead ยท 62 ms witness generation ยท 1,389 ms total proving time at 50K-constraint scale ยท first open-source reference implementation for Article 14.
A Shared-State Multi-Agent Framework for Safe Java Code Migration ยท submitted to IJIES (INASS treatise #20262024)
A multi-agent framework that coordinates specialized agents through shared state to perform large-scale Java migrations safely.
Technical writing on Medium and LinkedIn โ distributed systems, CI/CD, Kafka, Kubernetes, RAG, AI safety, security infrastructure.
Each chapter built on the last โ from writing COBOL adapters to architecting Zero Trust infrastructure.
2025 โโโโโโโโ PARAFIN โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ present
Dec Staff Security Infrastructure Engineer
โโ Architecting Zero Trust for an $8B+ fintech platform
โโ Partners: Amazon, DoorDash, Walmart, TikTok Shop
โโ Security mock drills, incident response, BC/DR, PII governance
โโ YC-backed, $750M valuation
2024 โโโโโโโโ META (REALITY LABS) โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ 2025 Dec
Jun Staff Software Engineer
โโ Led CI/CD modernization (Project Chesterfield) for Quest & Ray-Ban
โโ GenAI migration tool: 95% manual effort reduction, $386K/yr savings
โโ UBM metadata service: 150M+ req/day, 99.9% reliability
โโ Onboarding assistant: 55% oncall reduction, adopted by 3 teams
โโ Mentored 6 SEs (3 promoted to Staff within 12 months)
2024 โโโโโโโโ RAYMOND JAMES โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ 2024 Jun
Apr Lead Software Development Engineer
โโ Document generation platform: 8K-12K docs/month, 99.2% success
โโ Established 95% code coverage standard across team of 8
2022 โโโโโโโโ WAYFAIR โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ 2024 Mar
Jan Technical Architect / Principal
โโ DevSecOps platform: 50M+ security checks/month
โโ Kubernetes policy-as-code engine (3% false positive rate)
โโ Unified OAuth 2.0: 125M+ API calls/week, 99.97% uptime
โโ Selected as 1 of 3 architects from 50+ for security roadmap
โโ Mentored 20+ engineers (8 promoted to senior/staff)
2019 โโโโโโโโ JPMORGAN CHASE โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ 2021 Dec
Mar Senior Software Engineer (CIB)
โโ Escrow platform: $40B+ in deposits
โโ Saga-pattern payment service: 10K+ daily transactions
โโ Auth framework adopted by 18+ CIB teams
2011 โโโโโโโโ AMERICAN EXPRESS (via TCS) โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ 2019 Mar
Dec Systems Engineer โ Senior Software Developer
โโ Monolith to microservices: 60% code reduction, 66% faster APIs
โโ B2B integration: 2M+ monthly requests, 15+ carrier partners
โโ Locations: Bangalore โ Montevideo โ Phoenix
โโ This is where the journey began ๐
| Recognition | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| ๐ | Aureum Gold Laureate (Season 3) | NLP Achievement Award ยท Aureum International Awards Council ยท ref. TEC-26-12296 ยท Press |
| ๐ก๏ธ | Hackathon Raptors Fellow | Fellow #14975 ยท peer-elected UK CIC fellowship (5-Fellow vote, 4/5) ยท five-year achievement requirement |
| ๐๏ธ | IICSPA Fellow (FIICSPA) | Top 1% of 5,500+ members ยท peer-reviewed by experts from IBM, Moody's, SAP, JPMC, Goldman Sachs ยท profile |
| ๐ฌ | Sigma Xi Full Member | Scientific Research Honor Society (est. 1886) ยท 200+ Nobel laureates among members ยท Full membership requires 2+ refereed publications |
| โก | IEEE Member (ID 102037294) | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Three community-impact repositories with 100+ stars each. Research repos with their papers are grouped above under Research & Publications.
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Comprehensive coding interview solutions & resources Used by engineers worldwide who landed roles at top tech companies |
System design patterns & implementations Distributed-systems primer for staff-level interviews |
Curated DS, algorithms & system-design library Reference material across topics, regularly maintained |
2,235+ total stars across owned repos ย ยทย 605 forks ย ยทย 3 repos with 100+ stars ย ยทย 9 years contributing on GitHub
| Metric | Scale | |
|---|---|---|
| ๐ | Zero Trust infrastructure | $8B+ platform (Parafin) |
| ๐ก๏ธ | EmbedGuard detection rate | 94.7% ยท 51 ms overhead ยท 500K embeddings (peer-reviewed) |
| โก | GenOps deployment-cycle reduction | 55.7% ยท zero safety violations ยท 15,847 deployments (peer-reviewed) |
| ๐ค | GenAI migration automation | 95% effort reduction (Meta) |
| ๐ฆ | Unified Build Model | 150M+ requests/day (Meta) |
| ๐ก๏ธ | DevSecOps pipeline | 50M+ security checks/month (Wayfair) |
| ๐ | Identity platform | 125M+ API calls/week ยท 99.97% uptime (Wayfair) |
| ๐จโ๐ซ | Engineers mentored | 50+ across all roles |
| โญ | Open source stars | 2,235+ across owned repos ยท 605 forks ยท 3 repos with 100+ stars |
Languages Java ยท Python ยท Go ยท TypeScript ยท Groovy
Frameworks Spring Boot ยท FastAPI ยท Node.js ยท React
Cloud AWS ยท GCP ยท Kubernetes ยท Terraform ยท Docker
Security Zero Trust ยท IAM ยท Policy-as-Code (OPA/Kyverno) ยท TLS/mTLS ยท ZK proofs (Groth16)
Data Kafka ยท PostgreSQL ยท Cassandra ยท Redis ยท BigQuery
AI/ML RAG Pipelines ยท LLM Integration ยท Prompt Engineering ยท MCP ยท AI Safety
DevOps CI/CD ยท GitOps ยท ArgoCD ยท Datadog ยท PagerDuty
Patterns Microservices ยท Event Sourcing ยท CQRS ยท Saga ยท mTLS
| Article | Platform |
|---|---|
| Prompt Engineering vs Context Engineering vs Reasoning Engineering | |
| From 50 Million Events to a Single Answer: Building a RAG Pipeline | Medium / LinkedIn |
| Battle-Tested Multi-Region Deployment: Scaling Spring Boot Microservices | |
| From ACID to AI: The Ultimate Guide to Modern Databases | Medium |
| The Kubernetes Odyssey: Embark on a Technological Adventure! | Medium |
๐ถ Dog Dad Proud parent of Byte, a mischievous beagle
๐ฎ Retro Gamer Still speed-running Contra on NES
โ๏ธ Global Dev Coded in Bangalore, Montevideo, Phoenix, Tampa, San Francisco
๐ด Trail Explorer System design on two wheels








