# Akhil Kumar

> building cool stuff

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akhilkumar

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Leen
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Developer Success Engineer @ Zeet
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Research Intern @ Safe Security
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
-  Developed and deployed a Threat Intelligence Orchestrator to create context-aware threat models for Cyber Risk Quantification.
- Developed a framework to predict cloud-based Ransomware and Cryptojacking breach likelihood.

### Research Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Delhi, India
- Implemented and tested proposals by the Indian government to increase traceability in End-to-End encrypted systems, specifically WhatsApp. 
- Organized a cryptographers conclave to publish a whitepaper documenting the WhatsApp vs Govt of India in the Delhi High Court case. 
- Collaborated with the Data Security Council of India (NASSCOM) to review and propose changes in cyber law.

### Research Assistant @ Nanyang Technological University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Singapore, Singapore
- Benchmarked CRYSTALS-Kyber and Dilithium, two finalist candidates in NIST's PQC Standardization Project.
- Optimized CRYSTALS-KYBER for ARM processors using the Neon ISA.

### DevOps Intern @ Radware
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Israel
- Automated GCP instance health and network status reporting. 
- Analyzed network traffic to detect distributed scraping patterns.

### Software Engineer Intern @ InstaSafe
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru Area, India
- Designed and developed a web portal for the company's new SDP product.
- Monitored network health and traffic using ELK stack.


## Education
### Postgraduate Degree in Computer Science and Entrepreneurial Leadership
Ashoka University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Ashoka University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akillkumar

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Last updated: 2026-04-05