Darsh
Patel


Security engineer at Amazon by day. Building Sauron on nights and weekends.
Based in San Francisco, CA
New York, NY.

"What do I actually do?"

I make sure your data and credit cards are safe while you're shopping or watching a movie on Amazon.

I am also building Sauron, a system of autonomous nodes that enhance public safety and security by detecting and responding to threats in real-time.

If that sounds cool as f**k, let's talk.

5min
Amazon
Auto-remediation
Was 1 day. Now 5 minutes.
Amazon
<1s
IndyCar
Failover
During a live IndyCar race.
IndyCar
990+
Verkada
Cases/Quarter
96% customer score.
Verkada
The IndyCar Story

Migrated a production firewall from Cisco ASA to virtualized core — during the IndyCar Series season. 200+ switches, 750+ access points, and the failover had to be under a minute. Nobody noticed. That's the point.

Summer 2023, Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Work History

2025—
Amazon Security Engineer GenAI AppSec, IMDb Pro, Amazon Ads
2024
Verkada Customer Success Engineer 990+ cases/quarter, Python automation
2023
IndyCar (Penske) Security Intern Race-Season firewall migration
2021—24
Purdue University Network + IT Operational networks for 10,000+ users, HPC containers

"Why do you build stuff on the side?"

Because security work is mostly saying "no" to things. Building is the opposite — it's saying "what if?"
I need both to stay sane.

And intersection of tech and art is where the magic happens. And who doesn't like magic?

Cool sh*t I'm working on

Building something cool? Want to chat?

I'm always interested in hard problems — especially where tech meets art.