About

I’m Akshith. I like taking things apart to understand them, and building things that last. Mostly that shows up as security work, though the itch is older and wider than any one field. Hand me a system, a boulder, or a new recipe and I’ll go a level deeper than I need to.

Most of how I work is just falling and getting back up. It’s the same loop whether I’m learning to surf, stuck on the same climbing move for a week, or chasing a bug that refuses to make sense. I’d rather be a beginner at a lot of things than comfortable at one.

I’ve built things for real, too. I helped take a fintech product from nothing to something a lot of people rely on, which taught me more about security than breaking things ever did: it only counts if it survives real users and real deadlines.

I grew up in the Nilgiris, in South India. It left me with a lasting soft spot for the outdoors and for communities built with care and meant to last. These days I’m in Portland, Oregon, usually outside when I’m off the keyboard.

The rest of me is in the garden.