Akila Srinivasan

Akila Srinivasan leads a few security engineering teams at Anthropic, building defenses for frontier AI systems. Her work focuses on infrastructure and developer security through automation and paved roads. She drives Anthropic's model protection and customer data security requirements, protecting advanced AI capabilities from sophisticated adversaries. Before Anthropic, Akila built security programs at Notion, Lyft, Apple, and Microsoft. Her team now tackles automated risk remediation, infrastructure hardening, and AI model protection. She shapes security standards for the emerging field of AI safety while developing practical methods at the intersection of machine learning and security.