anikeshk

Santa Clara, California

Anikesh G Kamath

Software engineer building security automation — the APIs, pipelines, and agentic workflows that turn security findings into fixes.

Senior Software Engineer at Lineaje · MSCS from Northeastern

About

I've spent most of my career building software for security teams. At McAfee that meant putting machine learning models behind production APIs for malware detection, and learning what it takes to run them reliably at scale. At Lineaje it meant software supply chain security — SBOMs, vulnerability aggregation, and secret scanning — before I went back for a Master's in Computer Science at Northeastern, finished in May 2025, focused on distributed systems and cloud-native architecture.

Today I build security automation end to end: detection-to-remediation workflows across source code and OSS dependencies, event-driven pipelines and OpenSearch-backed datasets in the hundreds of millions of documents, and agentic systems that pair LLM reasoning with deterministic, auditable engineering. Most of it ships alongside the security engineers who use it, which is the part I like: tooling only counts if people adopt it.

Alongside the technical work I've spent a lot of time on leadership, mentorship, and teaching at Northeastern, and was honored with the Laurel and Scroll 100 award under the Society of Distinctions, and the Emerging Graduate Student Leader Award. I'm drawn to product security and platform teams building the automation that protects everything else — systems that are robust, explainable, and genuinely production-ready.

What I work on

Agentic security automation
Detection-to-remediation workflows where LLM reasoning is wrapped in deterministic, auditable engineering.
Data platforms at scale
Event-driven pipelines and OpenSearch-backed datasets spanning 100M+ documents.
Cloud-native on AWS
Services, queues, and CI/CD that scale without surprises or 3 a.m. pages.
Engineers as customers
Forward-deployed work with security teams, building tooling they actually adopt.

Experience

  1. Jun 2025 — Present

    Senior Software Engineer

    Lineaje · Santa Clara, CA

    Security automation across source code and OSS dependencies — vulnerability detection, remediation, and an MCP service layer over OpenSearch datasets spanning 100M+ documents. Forward-deployed with enterprise security teams.

    Python · Security Automation · Agentic AI · AWS

  2. Sep 2023 — May 2025

    MS in Computer Science

    Northeastern University · Boston, MA

    Distributed systems, backend engineering, and cloud-native architecture. Laurel and Scroll 100 · Emerging Graduate Leader · TA for IS 4300 and CS 4530.

    Distributed Systems · Teaching

  3. Sep 2022 — Jul 2023

    Member of Technical Staff

    Lineaje · Bengaluru, IN

    Lead backend developer for SBOM360 — software supply chain security at scale, from vulnerability aggregation APIs to a Gitleaks-based secret scanning service.

    TypeScript · Supply Chain Security · AWS

  4. Jun 2019 — Aug 2022

    Software Engineer

    McAfee · Bengaluru, IN

    Backend developer for Real Protect — production ML services for malware detection, with SLA monitoring and k6 performance gates in CI/CD.

    Node.js · ML x Security · SRE

Let's connect

Building security or developer infrastructure at scale? I'd love to compare notes.