Avneesh Kasture

Hi, I'm Avneesh Kasture

Associate Solutions Engineer at Gruve in Pune. I build secure AI integrations for clients, and the internal tools my colleagues use every day.

I started in digital forensics at Deloitte, then spent a year as a SOC analyst. Now I build the kind of systems I used to investigate. Most of my work is building secure AI systems. I stick with a problem until it's solved, however long that takes.

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Things I've built

A secure-by-default MCP framework

Client work at Gruve · Python · OAuth 2.1

A client wanted internal AI agents talking to enterprise systems without betting company data on the model behaving. I built a framework and a tested Python scaffold that make the secure path the default: endpoint allowlists, token checks on every call, scanned tool output, and an audit trail. Every server it produces passes a readiness checklist before it ships.

Helix

Internal platform at Gruve · Express, PostgreSQL, Redis, Azure

Gruve's sales-enablement platform. It drafts statements of work with GPT-4o, prices engagements, and maps engineering capabilities, so the sales team stops rebuilding the same documents by hand.

mcploitable

Open source · Security training lab · Python

Deliberately vulnerable MCP servers, one for each risk in the OWASP Top 10 for agentic apps. You attack them in the browser and score only when a planted secret actually leaves. Guardrails that rely on the model noticing an attack fall. The one in server code held for 105 attempts out of 105.

d2c-analyst

Side project · Python · multi-tenant Postgres

An AI analyst for direct-to-consumer brands, plus an agent that watches margins on its own. Every number in an answer is checked against its source before anyone sees it, and simple questions go to a cheaper model.

Smaller things

How I got here

  1. Jul 2024 – Feb 2025 · Mumbai

    Digital forensics intern, Deloitte

    Acquired and analysed digital evidence. Automated scanning and documentation in Python, which cut processing time by 80%.

  2. Apr 2025 – Apr 2026 · Pune

    SOC analyst, Gruve

    Investigated alerts across network, endpoint and identity data in Splunk and CrowdStrike Falcon. A threat hunt of mine turned into a customer-wide advisory.

  3. Apr 2026 – now · Pune

    Associate Solutions Engineer, Gruve

    Design and deliver secure MCP servers for clients, and build internal tools like Helix.

B.Tech in Computer Science, Vellore Institute of Technology, 2024. ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity. Google Cloud and data science badges. Enactus, VIT Chennai.

The lab and writing