Manish Atri

I'm Manish Atri, Co-Founder & CTO at Disseqt

We build infrastructure to test, simulate, and monitor GenAI behaviour across safety, security, and governance so enterprises can deploy AI with confidence.

Based in Bengaluru, India.

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Co-Founder & CTO

Disseqt AI · Full-time

Aug 2025 - Present · 7 mos

India · Hybrid

Building infrastructure to test, simulate, and monitor GenAI behaviour across safety, security, and governance, enabling enterprises to deploy AI with confidence.

Co-Founder and CPTO

Inspeq AI · Full-time

Oct 2023 - Sep 2025 · 2 yrs

India · Hybrid

Led product and engineering for an AI quality and compliance platform; scaled technology and team to serve production AI use cases.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Cradlepoint, part of Ericsson · Full-time

Sep 2021 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Led design and delivery of a common data platform (Kafka MSK, Redshift, DMS) and analytics service for NGFW/SASE/ZTNA products, enabling data-driven security insights.
  • Automated Security/SASE/ZTNA product testing by building virtual networks and end-to-end integration with the full product flow.
  • Shipped SAML-based SSO for web applications (Okta-style); owned Policy service that publishes security policies to customer traffic-evaluation systems.
  • Won three quarterly performance awards and the global Ericsson Award for Perseverance; selected for and completed the 8-month Global Tech Talent Program (2023).

NGFW, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redshift, SAML, and 21+ related skills

Senior Member of Technical Staff IV

ColorTokens, Inc. · Full-time

May 2019 - Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Bangalore · On-site

  • Built Node.js and Golang APM and OWASP Top 10 protection agents for application security.
  • Designed and shipped a Kubernetes monitoring agent (client-go, Kube state metrics–inspired) to track cluster and object state for cloud-native security.
  • Drove architecture, CI/CD, and mentoring; owned end-to-end design and implementation of core application and tooling.

Kubernetes, Node.js, Go, Docker, Jenkins, Prometheus

Software Developer

Cogoport · Full-time

Apr 2018 - Apr 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Built and operated end-to-end microservices for shipping schedules and container tracking, crawling ~1M port pairs and ingesting ~2M schedules per day.
  • Designed and scaled a Selenium-based distributed crawling system as the core of the data pipeline.
  • Drove schedule availability from ~45% to ~92% through automation; hired and led a team of three engineers.

Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Sidekiq, Selenium

Co-founder, CTO & Product

SumRight · Full-time

Jan 2017 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Architected and built Sumright.com and Koinok.com: internal dashboard, backend APIs, and real-time candlestick and indicator charting (Pusher).
  • Led full-stack development (frontend and backend); finalist at RBL Bank Hackathon 2017 (top 300 ventures).

Node.js (Hapi), MySQL, MongoDB, AWS (SES, CloudFront, S3, DynamoDB, EC2, Route53), IaC

Core Founding Team: Software Developer ( Acquired by Curefit)

Opinio · Full-time

Mar 2015 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos

Bangalore

First full-time engineering hire; company later acquired by Curefit.

  • Led architecture and development of e-commerce logistics applications and backend services for warehouse and merchant dashboards.
  • Built and owned the data analytics pipeline for hyperlocal logistics, enabling data-driven operations.

Node.js (Hapi), MySQL, MongoDB, AWS, Python, microservices, React.js

Software Engineer

Accenture · Full-time

Dec 2013 - Feb 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

Bangalore

Delivered and maintained applications for a US-based financial services client.

  • Extended core systems with new components and features using JavaScript and Java.
  • Diagnosed and resolved production issues using Splunk and Tealeaf; identified and remediated application security vulnerabilities.

Project Intern – Analytics

i3 Consulting Private Ltd. (Sutra Analytics) · Internship

Jan 2013 - May 2013 · 5 mos

Greater Noida

  • Built an MS Access–based Credit Risk Assessment tool; delivered survey analytics for a leading Middle East fresh-juice brand.
  • Designed interfaces, queries, and data models in MS Access; used SAS, Excel, and SPSS for analytics deliverables.

President – Rangtarangini (Dramatics Club)

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad · Leadership

Jan 2011 - Dec 2011 · 1 yr

Allahabad, India

Led the dramatics club; organized intra-college and national events and was a core member of the annual fest organizing team.

Top Skills

Amazon RedshiftPostgreSQLPythonGoAmazon DynamoDBKubernetesNode.jsDistributed SystemsAI Infrastructure

Recent Writing

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ML/AI

From Principles to Production: The Real Gap in Responsible AI

In this article I talk about why the gap between responsible AI principles and production is real, what teams actually do when they ship an LLM, and how the usual playbook falls short when it meets real systems and constraints.

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Feb 2025
ML/AI

How Big Tech Structures Responsible AI and Where It Stops

In this article I talk about how big tech companies structure Responsible AI teams and governance, what works and what doesn't, and where those structures stop short of actually changing how products are built and shipped.

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Feb 2025
Engineering

What is WAL - Write Ahead Log?

In this article I explain what Write-Ahead Log (WAL) is, why database systems use it, and how it ensures durability and consistency. I also cover how it fits into the broader picture of how databases persist and recover data.

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Jun 2023
Engineering

When Indexing Doesn't Help: Issues with RDS Performance

In this article I talk about when indexing doesn't help with RDS performance: why adding or tuning indexes sometimes fails to fix slow queries, what other factors are at play, and what to look at instead when indexes alone aren't enough.

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May 2023