Ravi Sastry Kadali
Tech Lead · Samsung
AI/ML Engineer | Security Tooling Author
Ravi Sastry Kadali is an Engineering Leader with two decades of progressive engineering leadership spanning defense, enterprise, and hyperscale systems. He built platform integrity systems at Meta protecting 3B+ users, engineered Windows platform releases at Microsoft, designed intrusion detection systems at India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), hardened API security infrastructure at Neustar Security Services, and delivered edge-security and networking solutions at Volterra (acquired by F5) and X Corp.
A passionate Go ecosystem contributor, Ravi has accepted patches in the Go project (golang/go), Kubernetes, etcd, gosec, gocloak, semgrep, gqlgen, OWASP ZAP, and Aqua Security's Trivy. He is the creator of go-safeinput - a unified injection defense library addressing MITRE CWE Top 25 - and SecurePrompt, a pre-flight AI prompt security scanner. He is a co-editor of security engineering technical papers and a recurring invited panelist at cybersecurity events.
At WeAreDevelopers, Ravi Sastry brings a rare blend of hands-on open-source craft and battle-tested security expertise earned protecting billions of users at the world's largest platforms.