Senior DevSecOps & platform leader · Founder, Mannat AI Labs · Vienna
Mohammed Jawed
Security operations, platform engineering, and AI security — 18+ years in IT, including 12+ inside the UN system at the IAEA. I build capabilities, not just operate tools: platforms, frameworks, and AI systems that hold up under scrutiny.
Now building KavachRT and Mizaan · ICISSP 2024 · IIT Kanpur '25 · TU Wien '19 · IAEA Merit Award
Selected work
seven products · open source first-
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Command Center
Sales-execution CRM for real-estate teams. Live and in daily use at a Dubai brokerage. Live -
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Aqilra
Multi-tenant publishing platform — every organization runs its own publication, with editorial workflow built in. In development -
03
Mizaan
Multi-agent LLM validation framework with human-governed memory consolidation. Sole-authored Zenodo preprint, 2026. Live -
04
KavachRT
Open-source AI red teaming — an autonomous operator attacks your AI system, adapts, and returns a reproducible security score. In development -
05
ArkThor
Threat categorization from malware C2 communication. Peer-reviewed at ICISSP 2024, Rome. Open source -
06
Muneem Ji
Self-hosted GST billing for Indian SMBs — MIT licensed, Docker-ready, light enough to run on a Raspberry Pi. Live -
07
Outpost Relay
Self-hosted email & notification delivery API — queue-backed, multi-tenant, an open-source alternative to SendGrid. In development
Experience
18+ years · enterprise IT & global finance-
2013 — now Vienna · UN Common System
DevOps Leader — Platform Engineering & DevSecOps
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Built a DevSecOps platform from a near-zero baseline to 100+ deployments per day, with SAST/DAST/SCA security scanning native to CI/CD.
- Define engineering standards adopted across product squads — branching strategies, semantic versioning, gated environment promotion (DEV → QA → UAT → Production), self-service pipeline templates — coaching squads through influence, not line management.
- Own the complete application lifecycle (ALM) — the transition of ideas from the whiteboard, to the keyboard, to the live site, to the users — then continuous monitoring for improvement.
- Designed and built two custom in-house platforms: the App Security Dashboard (portfolio-wide security visibility) and SGDOP (self-service DevOps platform).
- Own Azure DevOps as a platform, end to end — the complete toolchain that keeps the organisation's value delivery reliable, continuous, timely, trusted, transparent, and secure.
- Authored the organisation's DevOps culture and Continuous Improvement framework. IAEA Merit Award, June 2023.
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2025 — now Vienna · mannatai.com
Founder & Platform Engineering Lead
Mannat AI Labs
- Independent research lab for AI security, cloud security, and secure platform engineering — open-source first, with explainability and human oversight at the core.
- Architect and operate the lab's entire production platform hands-on: a WireGuard-segmented multi-VPS environment with hardened Ubuntu baselines, non-root Docker containers, Gravitee API gateway (OAuth 2.0 / JWT, rate limiting), OpenBao secrets management (vault-issued, short-lived credentials), ModSecurity WAF, Fail2ban, automated TLS, and full Prometheus–Grafana–Loki–Alertmanager observability.
- Ships Command Center, Aqilra, Mizaan, KavachRT, ArkThor, Muneem Ji, and Outpost Relay — seven products designed, built, and operated end to end by one founder.
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2007 — 2013 Global finance & enterprise IT
Release Engineering & Automation
CLSA · Saxo Bank · Hewlett-Packard · Aditi Technologies
- Senior Technical Lead Consultant at CLSA (trading-platform release engineering); established Saxo Bank's first Continuous Integration environment; deployment and test automation at HP and Aditi.
Core competencies
hands-on · production-provenSecurity Operations
- SIEM — Splunk, Azure Monitor, Wazuh
- EDR — CrowdStrike Falcon
- Vulnerability management
- Incident detection & triage
- WAF — Azure WAF, ModSecurity
DevSecOps & Platform
- Azure DevOps — 12+ years
- Pipelines as code · templates & governance
- SAST / DAST / SCA — SonarQube, Fortify, Checkmarx, Veracode
- Gated promotion — DEV → QA → UAT → Prod
- Kubernetes, Docker hardening
- IaC & GitOps — Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD
- Cloud — Azure ecosystem · Cloudflare edge · self-hosted VPS fleet
- Gravitee API Mgmt · OpenBao
AI Security & Engineering
- AI red teaming — KavachRT
- Multi-agent systems — Mizaan
- Prompt injection & data leakage
- RAG & LLM self-hosting
- Explainable AI, human oversight
Observability & SRE
- Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
- Alertmanager, AppDynamics
- Log correlation & alert routing
Research & Forensics
- Malware C2 analysis — ArkThor
- Static & dynamic analysis
- PCAP forensics, Python tooling
Leadership & Governance
- International civil service — 12 yrs
- Coaching & cross-team influence
- ISMS, Three Lines of Defence
Operating principles
applied across 12 years of production systems- Aim
- Make software delivery from developer hands into production reliable, predictable, visible, secure, and largely automated — with well-understood, quantifiable risk.
- Motto
- Measure everything. Improve every aspect of the development ecosystem — especially time to detect, time to respond, and feedback delay. Automate repeatable steps.
- Policy
- Set standards for transparency and predictability. Communicate clearly. State intentions publicly — and be held to them.
- Strength
- Agility. Speed up the transition of ideas from the whiteboard, to the keyboard, to the live site, to the users.
The Agent Org
one human · 21 AI agentsMannat AI Labs ships like a full delivery organisation — because it runs one. Every role below is an AI agent: defined in code, scoped to its own tools, and held to hard gates. No build starts without an approved design; nothing is "done" without QA and security sign-off. Review roles are read-only by design — they can block a release, but can never touch source. The only human is at the top of the tree.
Mohammed Jawed
Human · Founder
Delivery Lead & GTM Lead — runs the ceremony, enforces the gates, signs every release
Delivery crew 15 agents
Leadership & design
- CTOStack sign-off, build-vs-buy, risk appetite
- Product OwnerBacklog, priorities, acceptance criteria
- Scrum MasterCeremonies, blockers, definition of done
- Solution ArchitectSystem design, ADRs, non-functionals
- UX DesignerFlows, states, accessibility
Build
- DeveloperImplements strictly against the approved design
- DevOps EngineerCI/CD, deploy, rollback, observability
- Data EngineerMigrations, indexing, row-level security
- AI/ML EngineerModels, RAG, evals, guardrails
Verify & govern read-only
- QA EngineerTest plans and pass/fail verdicts
- AppSec EngineerThreat models; can block "done"
- End UserUAT from a real user's point of view
- Privacy OfficerData-protection & lawful-basis review
- AuditorTraceability and the sign-off ledger
- Technical WriterDocs, API reference, release notes
Go-to-market crew 6 agents
Positioning & content
- Product MarketerPositioning, audience, core message
- Content StrategistChannel plan, calendar, SEO
- CopywriterLanding pages, email, posts
- Video CreatorScripts, hooks, shot lists
Growth & sales
- Growth MarketerCampaigns, funnels, metrics
- Sales & BDOutreach, qualification, objection handling
Built on Claude Code subagents — each role is a version-controlled definition with its own model, tool scope, and mandate. One person, org-level throughput.
Research & writing
peer-reviewed · published-
2026
When Disagreement Means Learning (or Bias): Human-Governed Memory Consolidation and Counterfactual Diagnosis in Multi-Agent LLM Scoring
Zenodo preprint, June 2026 · Sole author · CC-BY-4.0
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2024
ArkThor: Threat Categorization Based on Malware's C2 Communication
ICISSP 2024, Rome · Best Position Paper Candidate · with C3i Hub, IIT Kanpur
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2019
Continuous Security in DevOps Environment
Master's thesis, Technische Universität Wien · Grade: Excellent
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2026
About the founder
18+ years in IT, including 12+ inside the UN Common System at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna — leading DevSecOps and security operations for an organization that cannot afford to break. Recognised for building capabilities, not just operating tools: two custom in-house IAEA platforms, the organisation's DevOps culture and Continuous Improvement framework, and the IAEA Merit Award (2023).
Two cybersecurity-focused Master's degrees, both Pass with Distinction — TU Wien and IIT Kanpur. Published researcher: ICISSP 2024 (Best Position Paper Candidate) and a sole-authored Zenodo preprint on multi-agent LLM scoring (2026). Before Vienna: release engineering in global finance at CLSA and Saxo Bank.
Mannat AI Labs is my independent research lab. The name means sacred wish in Hindi and Urdu, and the lab takes it seriously: each product begins with a real problem in someone's life or work — open source first, self-hosted, with explainability and human oversight at the core.
- Recognition
- IAEA Merit Award, 2023
ICISSP 2024 Best Position Paper Candidate
TryHackMe — LEGEND[0xD] rank, top 1% globally - Certifications
- Hack The Box — Certified AI Red Teamer (2026)
IIT Kanpur C3i Hub — Cyber Security & Cyber Defence (A+)
DevSecOps Engineering · DevOps Foundation
Outskill AI Engineering Fellowship (2025)
IIT Kanpur — Python for AI, ML & Deep Learning (2024)
Advanced Windows PowerShell DSC - In progress
- (ISC)² CISSP — examination planned Q4 2026
TryHackMe SEC1 — SEC0 completed, June 2026 - Languages
- English (fluent) · Hindi & Urdu (native)
German (basic)
Education
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2024–25
IIT Kanpur — eMasters, Cyber Security
Pass with Distinction
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2022–23
IIT Kanpur C3i Hub — Advanced Certification, Cyber Security & Cyber Defence
A+ grade
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2017–19
TU Wien — MSc, Engineering Management
Pass with Distinction · thesis graded Excellent
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2003–07
VTU — B.E., Electronics & Communication Engineering
Pass with Distinction
Working together
roles · consulting · collaborationAI security assessment & red teaming
Adversarial testing of LLM applications and agentic systems — prompt injection, data leakage, tool abuse — with a reproducible security score and a go/no-go verdict before you ship. The practice behind KavachRT.
DevSecOps platform buildout
From near-zero to 100+ secure deployments a day: CI/CD with security scanning built in, Kubernetes and container hardening, secrets management, and full-stack observability — the playbook proven over 12 years in one of the world's most careful organisations.
Advisory & security leadership
Fractional or interim security engineering leadership: AI governance and human-oversight design, ISMS and Three Lines of Defence, engineering standards, and coaching teams to own security rather than outsource it.
Contact
Open to senior DevSecOps and AI-security roles, consulting engagements, and research collaboration — based in Vienna, working globally.