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.
Recent writing
From an ongoing series on AI agent trust architecture.
- The Shared Capability Surface: What the OpenAI–Hugging Face Postmortems Reveal About Agent-Swarm AuthorityOct 27, 2026
- The Self-Expanding Capability Surface: What the OpenAI–Hugging Face Breach Reveals About Agent AuthorityJul 22, 2026
- Authority Budgets: Why Valid Permissions Can Still Produce Invalid ExecutionJul 13, 2026
- Escalation Thresholds: When Autonomous Agents Should Stop ActingJul 2, 2026
- Remediation Asymmetry: When Agents Can Diagnose More Than They Can FixJun 26, 2026