10 NVIDIA security engineers
Senior Security Engineer, Senior Security Software Engineer and Senior Engineering Manager, AI Infrastructure Security are among the titles these ten NVIDIA security engineers hold today. A reader can learn what security engineering at NVIDIA involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
Alec Williams, MS
LinkedInExperience: Senior Security Engineer · NVIDIA
Alec Williams has been a Senior Security Engineer at NVIDIA since February 2026, after serving as Security Engineer - Infrastructure at Meta from 2025 to 2026. The profile describes securing global infrastructure at scale and also lists Staff AI ML Engineer at Lockheed Martin (2021–2025) and data engineering roles at Capital One.
Ayush Ambastha
LinkedInExperience: Senior Security Engineer · NVIDIA
Ayush Ambastha has been a Senior Security Engineer at NVIDIA since April 2024, after serving as Security Engineer, GPU Cloud & AI Infra Security Team at NVIDIA from 2022 to 2024. The profile also lists Product Security Engineer at Red Hat (2021–2022) and describes currently being part of Product Security.
Bae-Sik Chon
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Security Engineer · NVIDIA
Bae-Sik Chon has been a Sr. Security Engineer at NVIDIA since April 2026, after serving as Sr. Security Engineer at Zoom from 2018 to 2025. The profile also lists Sr. Technical Leader roles at Cisco from 2004 to 2018, and the headline names security engineering, solutions architecture and technical leadership.
Kale Evans
LinkedInExperience: Senior Systems Software Security Engineer - Data Center Firmware Security · NVIDIA
Kale Evans has been Senior Systems Software Security Engineer - Data Center Firmware Security at NVIDIA since January 2025, after serving as Senior Embedded Security Software Engineer - Defense systems at Boeing Defense, Space & Security from 2023 to 2025. The profile also lists software engineering roles at Spotify from 2018 to 2023.
Kishore Kumar Hanabar
LinkedInExperience: Senior Security Engineer · NVIDIA
Kishore Kumar Hanabar has been a Senior Security Engineer at NVIDIA since February 2026, after serving as Senior Security Engineer at Sony Pictures Entertainment from 2023 to 2026. The profile also lists security engineer roles at Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2018 to 2023 and describes a focus on safeguarding GenAI and ML systems.
Michael Peng
LinkedInExperience: Senior Engineering Manager, AI Infrastructure Security · NVIDIA
Michael Peng has been Senior Engineering Manager, AI Infrastructure Security at NVIDIA since August 2021, after serving as Senior Security Engineer, AI Infrastructure at NVIDIA from 2017 to 2021. The profile describes leading security engineering for AI infrastructure and lists Principal Security Engineer, Yahoo Mail at Yahoo (2014–2016).
Pruthvesh Desai
LinkedInExperience: Senior Security Engineer · NVIDIA
Pruthvesh Desai has been a Senior Security Engineer at NVIDIA since March 2025, after serving as a Security Engineer at NVIDIA from 2023 to 2025. The profile also lists a Software Intern - Security role at NVIDIA in 2022 and research assistant roles at Carnegie Mellon University, with study related to software and network security.
Sachin Pathak
LinkedInExperience: Senior Security Engineer · NVIDIA
Sachin Pathak has been a Senior Security Engineer at NVIDIA since August 2026, after serving as Senior Security Software Engineer at Apple from 2023 to 2026. The profile also lists Senior Security Engineer at Zoox (2022–2023) and describes skills in applied cryptography, PKI and zero trust, including services based on X509 and SSH certificates.
Tanner Stevens
LinkedInExperience: Senior Security Engineer · NVIDIA
Tanner Stevens has been a Senior Security Engineer at NVIDIA since January 2024, after serving as Security Firmware Engineer at Microsoft from 2022 to 2024. The profile headline reads Sr Embedded Security Engineer and also lists Security Software Engineer roles at Microsoft (2020–2022) and Nintendo (2016–2020).
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide which security risks to work on first in your area?
- 02How do you work with engineering teams so security reviews fit their schedules?
- 03What has changed in your approach to security since you moved into your current role?
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