The people building Proxara.

Hemanth Tadepalli
Security & compliance

Hemanth Tadepalli

CEO
M.S. Cybersecurity, UC Berkeley
Detroit, MI · Bay Area, CA

Cybersecurity and compliance practitioner. Senior cyber and compliance leader at May Mobility (YC'17), an autonomous-vehicle company. Career spans Mandiant, Google, AlixPartners, and SensCy, with research across autonomous-vehicle security, IoT, threat intelligence, API security, and election integrity.

  • M.S. Cybersecurity, UC Berkeley. Faculty-selected commencement speaker. PhD candidate at Dakota State University.
  • Cyber and compliance career across May Mobility (YC'17), Mandiant, Google, and AlixPartners.
  • Appointed by the Michigan Secretary of State to the Election Security Advisory Task Force.
  • 40 Under 40, Oakland County. Governor’s Service Award.
  • Top 20 Voices in Automotive.
  • Youngest person appointed to office in a top-10 city to live in the US.
  • Violist of the Troy Metro Symphony.
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Jex Pearce
Systems & cryptography

Jex Pearce

CTO
Mathematics, Durham
Palo Alto, CA · London, UK

Full-stack engineer. Experienced in systems-level security and applied cryptography, with earlier work across regulated wealth management, data science, and iOS engineering.

  • Builds the Rust TLS proxy that intercepts agentic AI at the network layer, the MCP gateway pipeline, and the Ed25519 plus Sigstore-anchored audit chain.
  • Languages: Rust, Python, Java, SQL, React, HTML, SCSS. Cloud across AWS and GCP.
  • Compliance fluency: ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, NIST 800, FedRAMP, ISO/SAE 21434, HECVAT.
  • Bachelor's in Mathematics, Durham University.
  • Research focus on AI ethics and governance for SMEs.
  • Outside of software development, enjoys learning abstract mathematics and geopolitics.
  • Close partners with Hemanth, experienced across both security and compliance.

Out at the conferences shaping this field.

Real hours at the cyber and AI events, panels, and roundtables that move this work. Most recently, The Future of AI: Security, Infrastructure and Governance. More to come.

The Future of AI: Security, Infrastructure and Governance
The Future of AI: Security, Infrastructure and Governance
Jex at the YVS event, Entrepreneurs First, San Francisco
Jex at the YVS event, Entrepreneurs First, San Francisco
Trained & worked at
Google Cloud
UC Berkeley
Mandiant
Google
Global Relay

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