Research Software Engineer at IISc

Darshan V

Building security infrastructure and distributed systems that operate in production.

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About

Building systems
that endure.

Research Software Engineer and Technical Lead at the Indian Institute of Science. I design and ship production systems across security infrastructure, distributed systems, and applied AI.

5+
Production Systems
IISc
Jan 2025 — Present
3
Core Domains
CET
Timezone Overlap

Featured Project

Cipher

Zero-trust security mesh.
Built from the ground up.

SPIFFE workload identities. Mutual TLS enforcement. Behavioral risk scoring. Automated certificate rotation. Full control plane API.

Certificate Authority
SPIFFE identities with automated issuance and rotation
mTLS Enforcement
Sidecar proxy with transparent mutual TLS on all traffic
Risk Scoring
Behavioral analysis with burst detection and frequency tracking
Audit Logging
Compliance-ready telemetry with SQLite persistence
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Projects

More work.

Four production systems across defense, AI, incident analysis, and mobile.

02

BLACKBOX

Incident analysis platform with deterministic event correlation and forensic timeline reconstruction for distributed production systems.

Incident Analysis
03

Stratacon

Multi-domain military simulation for the Indian Armed Forces. Real GIS terrain. AI-driven entity behavior. Mission planning across land, air, cyber, and electronic warfare.

Defense Technology
04

Product Singularity

Universal AI framework unifying visual, structural, and textual data for explainable product evaluation, benchmarking, and regulatory compliance.

AI Framework
05

InsightX

Award-winning roadside assistance platform using LoRa satellite communication for reliable offline connectivity in remote areas. Built with Flutter. Prize winner among 120+ teams.

Undergraduate Final Year Project
Expertise

Technical depth.

Production experience across security, distributed systems, and applied AI.

Security Infrastructure
Zero-Trust Architecture PKI / X.509 mTLS SPIFFE / SPIRE Policy Engines Certificate Lifecycle
Distributed Systems
Python Service Mesh Control Plane APIs System Design Telemetry Audit Logging
AI and Research
Multimodal AI AI Simulation GIS Systems Research Engineering Flutter LoRa / Satellite
Experience

Where the
work happened.

Indian Institute of Science
Research Software Engineer and Technical Lead
Jan 2025 — Present
Current

Designing and shipping production systems at one of Asia's foremost scientific institutions. Leading architecture decisions across multiple concurrent projects in security infrastructure, defense simulation, incident analysis, and AI.

Designed and shipped Cipher — a zero-trust service mesh with SPIFFE identities, mTLS enforcement, behavioral risk scoring, certificate rotation, and HTTP control plane API.
Built BLACKBOX — a production incident analysis platform with deterministic event correlation and forensic timeline reconstruction.
Led Stratacon as Technical Lead — a multi-domain military simulation for the Indian Armed Forces integrating GIS terrain, AI entity behavior, and mission planning.
Architected Product Singularity — a universal AI framework for multimodal product intelligence, explainable evaluation, and regulatory compliance.
Contact

Darshan V

Research Software Engineer, IISc

Open to remote roles in security engineering, infrastructure, developer advocacy, and solutions engineering. CET timezone overlap. Available immediately.