Mahendra Kutare

I'm a founder and engineer building DeepTrail — a trust layer that secures AI agents for enterprises through identity, authorization, and governance. Previously, I was a founding engineer at E8 Security (acquired by VMware), an early engineer at Boundary (acquired by BMC), and held technical leadership roles across data, machine learning, and AI at D2iQ (formerly, Mesosphere, acquired by Nutanix), NIO, and Motive.

Over the past 15+ years, I've built and scaled distributed systems, data platforms, machine learning infrastructure, AI infrastructure, and agentic AI platforms. My work has spanned cloud platforms, observability, cybersecurity, mobility, and autonomous driving, across both high-growth startups and enterprise organizations. I studied at IIT Bombay and Georgia Tech. I founded Kaavya Connections, a community dedicated to poetry, literature, and music.

Some of my writing:

• Constraint Durability: The Missing Layer Between Policy and Trust
• Permission Envelope Compilation: Why Static Permissions Are the Hardcoded Query Plans of Agent Systems
• Uber's AI Agent Identity Architecture — And Why Governable Execution Is the Next Frontier
• Your Agent's Tool Calls Are Not Transactions — And MCP Just Made That Official
• Instruction Robustness: Why Specs Written as Hints Break When You Change Models

You can explore my writing, code, talks, patents, and publications, or follow me on X and LinkedIn. Reach out if you're building AI agents, AI infrastructure, agent infrastructure, AI agent security, or trustworthy AI systems.