Krishnendu Dasgupta
AXONVERTEX AI
Founder
Krishnendu Dasgupta is the Founder of AXONVERTEX AI, based in Bengaluru, India. He has 15+ years of experience across applied machine learning, healthcare AI, generative AI, graph reasoning, decentralized/private compute, cybersecurity-adjacent systems, and agentic infrastructure. His work focuses on building practical, privacy-preserving, local-first AI systems with clear security boundaries, audit trails, policy controls, and human oversight.
He has previously spoken and presented AI frameworks at major technology and open-source forums, including The Linux Foundation AI Summit Europe, CNCF Europe, Neo4j Conference, Applied AI Summit, and OWASP Foundation chapter events.
In June 2026, Krishnendu was invited by OWASP Italy as a trainer and speaker for OWASP Italy Day 2026 in Cagliari, Sardinia, where he delivered training on “Building, Securing, and Deploying AI Agent Swarms in a Trustless Decentralized Ecosystem.” The training focused on secure AppSec triage and remediation swarms, multi-agent systems, policy-as-code, privacy protection, PII handling, open-source foundation models, and secure deployment in decentralized environments.
His current work at AXONVERTEX AI connects Free and Open Source principles with AI security and digital sovereignty: self-hosted infrastructure, open models, deterministic orchestration, privacy gates, policy registries, auditable memory, sandboxed tool use, and human approval workflows for safe AI agent deployment.
Since 2023, he has independently contributed to AI research initiatives connected with NIST-driven work, including generative AI challenges and the ARIA framework, as a principal investigator and researcher. He has also contributed as a technical reviewer for more than 16 AI books published globally by Springer Nature. Since 2023, he has served as a volunteer section leader for Stanford Engineering’s Code in Place, supporting learners in the free online CS106A programming course.
