Shrivu Shankar

Shrivu Shankar is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer and GenAI Architect at Abnormal Security, where he leads machine learning architecture. He progressed from a college intern to his current role in four years, specializing in building AI-native systems from the ground up to combat cyberattacks. He earned his Computer Science degree from The University of Texas at Austin.

Outside of work, Shrivu is deeply passionate about experimenting with AI, developing personal projects that include an AI-powered game called "Infinite Alchemy" and a tool for generating planet textures using stable diffusion. This demonstrates a genuine curiosity for AIs creative and practical applications beyond his professional responsibilities in cybersecurity.

He has researched and trained a large language model to dynamically inject backdoors into the code it writes.