Vaishnavi Gudur
Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Vaishnavi Gudur is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, where she architects secure and scalable systems that safeguard more than 145 million Microsoft Teams users worldwide. Her work focuses on phishing protection, compliance, and AI-driven security, blending deep technical expertise with a commitment to responsible innovation. Beyond her engineering role, Vaishnavi is an active researcher and thought leader in AI governance and ethical AI. She has published on topics including privacy-sensitive smart contracts, zero-day cyber threat detection, and trustworthy AI architectures.
As a recognized voice in the field, Vaishnavi has delivered invited talks at leading industry and academic forums, including NDC Sydney, SecurityWeek’s AI Risk Summit, IEEE Cloud Computing Symposium, and CodeSecCon, where she highlights the real-world risks of deploying AI in enterprise environments and offers practical frameworks for building resilient, ethical systems. She also serves as a peer reviewer for various IEEE, ACM journals and papers and as a lead editor with Springer Nature, helping shape the next generation of scholarship in AI ethics and cybersecurity.
Passionate about bridging research, engineering, and governance, Vaishnavi has built an open source tool, Agent Memory Guard, adopted by OWASP foundation. It is a runtime defense layer that screens every read and write to your AI agent's memory, blocking prompt injection, secret leakage, and integrity tampering before they corrupt agent behavior across sessions. It is widely adopted by startups and has many contributions on Github.
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Vaishnavi Gudur
Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
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