About

I'm Alankrit. I'm an engineer who's spent most of my career building things from zero to one - platforms, data systems, and now AI agents that operate in high-stakes environments.

I studied Computer Science at IIT Delhi, then spent years in founding and early engineering roles - building backend infrastructure at scale at Twitter, and helping build companies including Afterpay and Spotnana from the ground up. Different domains, same underlying question every time: how do you build systems that actually work at scale?

These days that question meets security. I'm Co-Founder and CTO at Simbian, where we're building AI agents for security operations. Along the way I authored the Cyber Defense Benchmark - the only public benchmark for AI in SecOps - which showed that frontier models top out around 45% on real security tasks, and which anchors how we think about building agents that improve past that. I came at cybersecurity from the AI and engineering side, not the other way around - which shapes how I see the whole space.

This site is where I think out loud - about AI agents, cybersecurity, the craft of building technology companies, and the things I get wrong along the way.

What I focus on

• AI systems - how agents work, where they fail, and what "production-ready" actually means
• Cybersecurity - an engineer's perspective on why the status quo is broken
• Building companies - zero-to-one engineering, architecture decisions, and the messy parts nobody writes about

For papers, bylines, press, and talks, see publications & appearances.

Get in touch

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