AI Security · Agentic Systems · Red Teaming · Alignment Research

AKHIL SHARMA

↗ Open to remote US roles in Agentic Security · LLM Red Teaming · AI Security Tool Development

Published ResearcherPublished Author3× Founder52K YouTube SubscribersLinkedIn Learning Instructor

Polyglot engineer securing LLMs & agentic AI · 10+ years in AI security · Rust, Go, Haskell, Python — and jailbreaking AI models.

akhilsharmaofficial@proton.meakhil.shlinkedin.com/in/akhilsailsBangalore · Remote US · Quarterly Travel
10+
Yrs AI Security
Founder
52K
YouTube Subs
$500K
Grants Secured
100+
CTOs Mentored
Experience
Chief Scientist & Co-Founder09/2025 – 03/2026
SnowCrash Labs San Francisco

LLM red-teaming and AI alignment startup detecting misalignment behaviors in deployed AI systems and agentic pipelines.

  • Architected core red-teaming evaluation framework and misalignment detection engine from scratch
  • Led all technical strategy across agentic security, multi-agent trust models, and LLM attack surfaces
  • Conducted deep technical engagements with Ballistic Ventures and Crosspoint Capital
LLM Red TeamingAgentic SecurityAlignment ResearchAWS
Founder / Hacker-In-Chief06/2022 – 07/2025
ARMUR AI San Francisco

Built AI Agents that scan codebases for vulnerabilities with deep contextual understanding — solving what static analysis fundamentally cannot.

  • Backed by Techstars + Outlier Ventures; selected for Google AI Startups & Nvidia Inception programs
  • Secured $500K+ in grants from Aptos, Tezos, and Algorand
  • Open source: Pentest-Swarm-AI — autonomous AI agent pentesting swarm (201★, 51 forks)
  • Open source: vibescan — security scanner for AI-generated code, 30+ tools (45★)
AI AgentsCode SecurityGoTechstarsGoogle AI Startups
Founder — AI & Security Consulting02/2018 – 06/2023

AI and security consulting firm building and shipping products for the tech community.

  • dominate.ai — sales management tool used by 50+ tech founders worldwide
  • remote-teams.io — productivity suite for distributed engineering teams
SaaSNodeJSReactJS
Creator / Principal Engineer08/2020 – 11/2021
Remote Teams San Francisco

Open-source, remote-first project management platform — project estimation, timeline management, Gantt scheduling for software engineers.

Open SourceFull Stack
Creator / Principal Engineer06/2018 – 07/2020
Dominate AI San Francisco

Experimental micro-SaaS sales intelligence platform — open source, multi-tenant architecture in NodeJS and ReactJS.

Open SourceNodeJSMulti-tenant
Technical Product Manager05/2015 – 08/2017
Insignia Worldwide & Clique Media UAE

Led product for deep-tech programmatic ad-tech platforms (real-time bidding) across two companies. Managed engineering teams and architects.

Security Researcher08/2011 – 03/2013
Freelance India

Bug bounty hunting, CVE research, and penetration testing across web and infrastructure targets.

CVE ResearchBug BountyPentesting
Publications & Writing
XAMT: Bilevel Optimization for Covert Memory Tampering in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Architectures
arXiv:2512.15790 [cs.CR] · Dec 2025 · Sharma, Arafat, Sharma, Huang
Novel framework formalizing adversarial attacks on MARL + RAG multi-agent systems — high ASR at sub-percent poison rates with minimal detectability.
↗ arxiv.org/abs/2512.15790
Rust for Blockchain Application Development
Packt Publishing · 2024
Published book on systems programming with Rust applied to blockchain engineering.
↗ packtpub.com
AI Cybersecurity Courses (Multiple)
LinkedIn Learning · Creator & Instructor
Multiple courses on AI security reaching a global professional audience.
↗ Fine-tuning LLMs for Cybersecurity
Technical Skills
AI Security & Red Teaming
LLM Red TeamingAgentic Attack SurfacesPrompt InjectionJailbreak TechniquesAdversarial RobustnessThreat Modeling
Alignment & Interpretability
Misalignment DetectionRepresentation EngineeringActivation SteeringBehavioral Evals
Languages
RustGoPythonHaskellElixirRubyNodeJS
AI / ML Stack
LangChainLangGraphCrewAIDSPyLlamaIndexGoogle ADKAnthropic APIMCP
Cloud & Infra
AWSGCPDockerTerraformArch Linux
Key Achievements
201★ Open Source Security Tool
Pentest-Swarm-AI: autonomous AI agent pentesting platform, 51 forks
$500K in Grants Secured
From Aptos, Tezos, and Algorand blockchain platforms at ARMUR AI
arXiv Published Researcher
XAMT framework for adversarial attacks on heterogeneous multi-agent systems
100+ CTOs Mentored
Advanced system design via YouTube (52K subscribers) and Algoroq courses
Courses
Advanced Cybersecurity
Stanford University
2023
AI Postgraduate Professional Program
Stanford School of Engineering
2020 – 2021
Blockchain Technologies: Business & Application
MIT
2020
Education
MBA, Business
MICA | The School of Ideas
2013 – 2015
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science
Savitribai Phule Pune University
2007 – 2011
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
AWS Machine Learning Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS DevOps Engineer
Amazon Web Services
AWS Big Data Specialty
Amazon Web Services
GCP Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud Platform
Professional ML Engineer
Google Developers
GCP Professional Data Engineer
Google Cloud Platform
Terraform Associate
HashiCorp