MANNATAI LABS
About

One engineer, nearly twenty years of platforms, and a lab of AI agents that are always labelled as such.

Mannat AI Labs is an independent engineering lab based in Europe and Dubai. It exists to build things properly for teams that cannot yet afford an engineering department, and to write down how.

Mohammed Jawed
Mohammed Jawed
Founder. DevSecOps and platform engineering leader. IIT Kanpur, TU Wien and AMU alumnus.
The founder

The short version, for people who read profiles for a living.

01

Now

Runs Mannat AI Labs alongside a leadership role in DevOps and platform engineering at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, where he has worked for more than twelve years and received the Merit Award in 2023.

02

Before

Nearly twenty years in IT across platform engineering, DevSecOps and software delivery, from near-zero to a hundred-plus secure deployments a day.

03

Education

eMasters in Cyber Security, IIT Kanpur (2025, with distinction). MSc Engineering Management, TU Wien (2019, with distinction). Advanced Certification in Cyber Security and Cyber Defence, IIT Kanpur C3i Hub. B.E. Electronics and Communication, VTU (2007). Alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University.

04

Published

Mizaan: explainable multi-agent scoring, Zenodo preprint, 2026. Threat categorisation from malware C2 communication, ICISSP 2024, Rome, best position paper candidate.

05

Practice

Hack The Box Certified AI Red Teamer (2026). TryHackMe top 1% globally. CISSP examination planned for late 2026.

How work is delivered

One human. A working set of AI agents. A gate between them and the world.

The lab runs a small organisation of AI agents that draft, build, test and review. They are useful, they are fast, and they are AI: nothing they produce reaches a customer, a repository or a social feed until the founder has looked at it. Your project runs on the same rule.

HUMAN
Mohammed Jawed, founder
Decides, approves, is accountable
THE GATE
Nothing leaves without a human looking at it
AI AGENTS
Design and build
architecture, code, tests
AI AGENTS
Verify and govern
review, security, read-only
AI AGENTS
Write and publish drafts
posts, docs, never the send
Two doors

Work with the lab, or work with the founder.

Work with the lab

Products, security reviews and DevSecOps for teams without an engineering department. Quote only, scoped in writing, built in your accounts.

Talk to the lab

Hire me

Open to senior DevSecOps, platform engineering and AI-security leadership roles. The lab is the portfolio; the field notes are the interview.