# ✔️ Yernat Yestekov > Research Fellow @ Anthropic | AI Safety & Security | Team Lead Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yernat Staff Software Engineer (12+ years) specializing in AI safety, security and privacy. Currently an Anthropic Fellow studying frontier LLM cyber capabilities, including live autonomous-agent deployments and benchmark design. Previously co-led frontier-model red-teaming at FAR.AI and built explainable AI and human oversight systems at Meta. Expertise bridging technical safety work with policy/regulatory requirements. Co-founded and built from scratch a profitable cloud gaming startup. Successfully led diverse cross-functional teams, comprising members with engineering, data, product, security, legal, and audit backgrounds, during technology consulting projects for top-tier firms such as PwC and KPMG. Assisted clients in highly-regulated sectors such as finance and healthcare in developing digital products and services utilizing APIs (REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI), data (SQL, NoSQL, ETL, Pandas, Numpy), microservices (Docker, Kubernetes) and multi-cloud (AWS, Azure). MSc in Applied Cryptography, Fulbright scholar. Multilingual (English, Kazakh, Russian). A proud pug owner. Languages/Frameworks: Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI, Pandas, Numpy), JavaScript (Node.js, React, Electron), CSS/HTML, C. Database/Cloud: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite), NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis), ORM, ETL, AWS (EC2, S3). Privacy/Trust/Security: data and privacy regulations (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI), GRC and security controls (ISO 27001), data anonymization and classification, tokenization, sanitization, encryption for data (at-rest, in-transit, and in-use), differential privacy. Threat modeling, auditing access to data, and review of requests for data access. Data inventory, DLP, privacy impact and risk assessments. Other: System architecture (SOA, event-driven, N-tier), API design (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, OpenAPI), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), OOP, CI/CD, Git, Agile, SDLC, OAuth, JWT. ## Work Experience ### Research Fellow (Cyber) @ Anthropic Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Researching frontier LLM cyber capabilities, including live autonomous agent deployments, architecture and benchmark / evaluation design. ### Research Fellow (AI Safety) @ FAR.AI Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 Team Lead, AI Safety Research Engineer via SPAR Fellowship. Developed a toolkit for frontier LLM red-teaming ### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Integrity, Regulatory Compliance ### Staff Software Engineer @ Comcast Technology Solutions Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 - Developing DataBee, a cutting-edge security, risk, and compliance data fabric SaaS platform, that delivers dynamic, detail-rich dashboards and reports that measure risks and control effectiveness. Its robust analytics enable teams across the organization to leverage the same large, historical dataset for high fidelity analysis, decision-making, response, and assurance outcomes while driving down costs and maintaining high performance. With DataBee, governance, risk, and compliance leaders and analysts save time on audit preparedness and achieve fast compliance answers and resolutions. ### Senior Software Engineer Fellow @ Formation Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 – Selected for a highly competitive fellowship for personalized coaching from top-tier industry experts in software engineering. Program covered building modern web-based applications, designing scalable and distributed systems, implementation of engineering best practices, leadership and mentoring of teams. - Received Rising Tide award (twice) for going above and beyond to support the community as recognized by fellow peers. ### Technical Cofounder @ beGame Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 Begame is a decentralized cloud gaming platform enabling users to connect to remote computers for gaming. Built from scratch in 100 days. Tech Stack: Python, Django, Django REST Framework (DRF), React, SQL (MySQL) ### Team Lead / Manager at Digital and Technology Consulting @ PwC Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Eurasia – Led cross-functional teams (SWE, security, risk, legal) to design and develop secure and compliant distributed systems achieving 98% customer satisfaction rate. ### Senior Software Engineer at Digital and Technology Consulting @ PwC Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Eurasia ### Senior Software Engineer at IT Advisory @ KPMG Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 – Led and executed 10+ security, privacy and compliance projects for clients across diverse industries, including designing and building secure distributed systems, risk assessments, security audits, penetration testing, forensic investigations, and legal, compliance, policy, and code reviews. ### Software Engineer at IT Advisory @ KPMG Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 ### Software Engineer @ OI Consulting Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 – Helped clients to develop digital products and services – Conducted a range of cybersecurity services such as penetration tests, security audits, risk assessments ### Presales Engineer @ Nokia Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Vienna, Austria ### Lead Developer @ AIESEC Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ## Education ### Master of Science in Computer Science University of North Texas ### Bachelor in Computer Science Almaty University of Power Engineering and Telecommunications ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yernatyestekov --- Source: https://flows.cv/yernat JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yernat/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29