Pavan Reddy

Pavan Reddy is a cybersecurity-focused Principal Software Engineer at Automata, leading engineering work that prepares products and processes for FIPS-aligned cryptography and FedRAMP ATO readiness. He drives vulnerability and compliance management initiatives that map technical controls to audit evidence, strengthen secure SDLC practices, and reduce risk across cloud environments. His work centers on practical AI security, adversarial attacks and prompt-injection weaknesses, grounded in the realities of regulated systems. He also founded QBTrain to make AI and AI security education freely accessible, and regularly teaches teams how to design resilient, abuse-resistant systems. Across his engineering and research, he emphasizes control alignment and implementation rigor for frameworks such as FedRAMP and CMMC, with a focus on measurable security outcomes.