Product · Engineering · AI
Product enthusiast and software developer from India . I write about building products, working with teams, and shipping software.
01 / Now
Airbus · Apr 2024 – Present
5 → 1
IAM platforms consolidated into one product
10 mo
sooner release, at 40% lower build cost
80%
first-contact resolution for the agentic AI assistant
3 Platform obsolescence
Decommissioned 3 critical IAM platforms and simplified operations
02 / Timeline
Consolidating five IAM platforms into one product; agentic AI assistant in UAT.
Retired two legacy IAM platforms; launched voice-based self-service password reset.
CI/CD for 4 IAM applications — release time from 1 day to ~2 hours.
Electrical load analysis web app for Airbus R&D; .NET Core & Angular SME.
Cross-functional full-stack development on evolving client requirements.
Scalable applications for information extraction, retrieval and indexing.
Computer Science.
03 / Writing
Agentic AI · 3 min read
A practical recovery playbook for agent tools: classify failures, retry with limits, use fallbacks, compensate when needed, and observe the result.
Agentic AI · 3 min read
The model can choose the next action, but the runtime must enforce limits, track execution state, and make operations recoverable.
Identity & Security · 6 min read
The whole series on one page: ten chapters, seven ideas, and nine questions worth asking when a team tells you it is fine.
Identity & Security · 9 min read
Zero Trust is not "trust nothing". It is no implicit trust from network location. What it actually claims, the implicit trust zone and its two dimensions, NIST SP 800-207 under new names, continuous evaluation as the one genuinely new demand, and device trust.
Identity & Security · 6 min read
Privilege is not a job title. It is how far the damage reaches. The four-question test for a privileged account, tiering as the one structural control, PAM as three separable things, what JIT elevation does and does not buy, and break-glass.
Identity & Security · 7 min read
IAM is not supporting export control. IAM is the enforcement mechanism. Deemed exports, why it had to be ABAC, the licence that silently expires, where these programmes actually fail, and why enforcement working does not produce audit evidence.
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