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 — 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.