Hi, I’m Khirawdhi Ray.

I am a cybersecurity researcher and security engineer with over 9 years of experience across offensive security, security architecture, cloud and product security, GenAI risk, and regulatory alignment.

I take end-to-end ownership of security from design through deployment. I work closely with engineering teams to integrate security early in the lifecycle, ensuring controls are practical, developer-aligned, and grounded in real operational constraints. My experience includes structured threat modeling, red teaming, architecture reviews, and securing CI/CD pipelines across cloud-native and AI-enabled systems.

I focus on building security that performs reliably in production, clear in design, resilient under pressure, and maintainable at scale. In parallel with hands-on engineering, I publish security research and develop open-source tools based on real implementation challenges. I remain pragmatic in my approach, aware that effective security must balance rigor with usability.