Research & Engineering
AI agent infrastructure, from prototype to production.
What I'm building
LLM agents need infrastructure that is efficient (long contexts, memory optimization, redundancy reduction) and secure (least-privilege access, adversarial resistance). I build at this intersection: context optimization, authorization, memory management, and observability.
Currently exploring
- Agent Security - Shipping agentic-authz: OpenFGA + MCP authorization for AI agents
- Context Engineering - Distill 1.0 with MCP integration and cloud waitlist
- Open Source - OpenFGA contributions, agent infrastructure tools
- Speaking - Conferences on AI agent security and authorization
Focus areas
Context Efficiency & Reliability
"How do we make LLM outputs reliable and deterministic through better context management?"
Clean, deduplicate, and optimize context before it reaches the model. Deterministic algorithms over probabilistic heuristics.
Agent Authorization & Audit Trails
"How do we enforce fine-grained, capability-based authorization for AI agents with full auditability?"
Google Zanzibar-style authorization for agent-tool interactions via OpenFGA and MCP. Dynamic capability tokens, real-time policy enforcement, audit logging.
Adversarial Robustness & Observability
"How can agents maintain safety under prompt injection, tool poisoning, and adversarial tool responses?"
Observability and tracing to detect attacks on agent tool-use pipelines. GPU-level profiling for performance and security.
Products & Prototypes
Distill
Deterministic context deduplication for LLMs in ~12ms
Agent Authorizationagentic-authz
OpenFGA + MCP authorization gateway for AI agents
ObservabilityLLMTraceFX
GPU-level LLM inference profiler with AI-powered insights
AuthorizationOpenFGA
Google Zanzibar-style authorization (Core Maintainer)
Context EngineeringContextLab
LLM context engineering toolkit - analyze, compress, visualize
Memory SystemsTokenVM
KV-cache virtual memory with page-based eviction
Agent SystemsAgentflow
Agent orchestration with capability-based security
SecuritySentinel AI
Security scanning with LLM-powered triage
SecurityA2AS
Agent-to-agent security protocol implementation
DevSecOpsactionsec
GitHub Actions security analyzer
Working with me
Systems engineering experience meets research curiosity.
- Ships: research prototype to production. Built Distill, maintain OpenFGA
- Systems depth: production infrastructure at Ona (formerly Gitpod)
- Open source: OpenFGA maintainer (CNCF), GitHub1s maintainer
- Cross-domain: security, distributed systems, ML infrastructure
- 40+ articles on siddhantkhare.com/writing