Founder of MatrixGard, fractional DevSecOps for pre-seed and seed startups. We become your cloud, infrastructure, and security team on a monthly retainer for a fraction of the cost of a senior hire. Operating across India, Singapore, UAE, UK, and US.
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MatrixGard (2024 to present). Solving the pre-seed founder problem: you need cloud architecture, CI/CD automation, and security expertise, three separate disciplines, but you can only afford one senior hire who cannot credibly be all three. I become that team on retainer. One Slack channel. One invoice. Senior capacity from day one.
Service areas: AWS / GCP / Azure security baselines, CI/CD pipeline security (Trivy / Snyk / OWASP ZAP), FinOps and cloud cost optimization, SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / RBI Master Direction / DPDP Act / PCI-DSS prep, Kubernetes hardening, incident response readiness for fintech 6-hour reporting requirements.
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Opinionated baselines and tooling distilled from real engagements. Every artifact is shipped with the why, the what breaks if you skip, and the when to graduate off it, no generic "best practices" without context.
- 🛡️ aws-startup-security-baseline: The 12 AWS security controls every 5-engineer seed startup should turn on this afternoon, plus the 80 CIS controls you can skip until Series A. Single Terraform module, ~$10–40/month at startup scale, full per-control deep-dive docs.
- ⚙️ devsecops-ci-templates: Reusable GitHub Actions workflows for Trivy / Snyk / OWASP ZAP / Semgrep / IAM-policy linting. Drop-in security gates for any startup repo.
- ✅ seed-startup-security-checklist: Living markdown checklist for AWS hardening, DPDP Act readiness, RBI fintech baseline, SOC 2 prep, and incident-response readiness.
From the public saysri.ai case study, an AI recruitment platform on Microsoft Azure:
Before: TLS 1.0 enabled, public blob storage, no WAF, orphaned cloud resources bleeding money quietly.
After: 8 critical vulnerabilities fixed, 70% of orphaned cloud resources eliminated, production-grade security posture achieved, in 7 working days.
"MatrixGard have recommended robust security practices which made our app resilient and helped us to cut unnecessary cloud infrastructure costs which we reinvested on our product development.", Sayeenath, saysri.ai
Almost a decade building, breaking, and securing cloud infrastructure across India, Singapore, UAE, UK, and US. Before MatrixGard, infrastructure roles in enterprise, including time at Cisco. Specialties: AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, FinOps, DevSecOps, incident response, and multi-agent AI architectures.
- 📝 Blog: long-form posts on AWS IAM auditing, RBI compliance for fintech startups, cloud cost optimization, the architecture behind Ghost-hunter (my AI cloud-bill investigator), and patterns from auditing 30 startups
- 🛠️ Services: full service catalogue
- 💰 Pricing: transparent monthly retainers and audit packages
- 👤 About: who MatrixGard serves and what we deliberately don't do
- Free infrastructure review: matrixgard.com/book
- Email: avinash@matrixgard.com
- Issues / PRs: open in any of the public repos here, or email if you want to talk first
Operating as NASHSMATRIXGARD OPC PVT LTD, a One Person Company registered in Chennai, India. Founded 2024. All published code is MIT licensed unless noted otherwise.