About the Author

Murali Mallina

CTO at Tria · Founder, Teaching for Good · AIUC-1 Consortium member

This master class is created and taught by Murali Mallina. Over 27 years, Murali has built and led engineering organizations across seven countries — startups, consultancies, system integrators, and large enterprises — including nine years supporting various U.S. federal agencies. He has shipped software and built teams that serve millions of users and citizens.

His work sits at the intersection of three things this course is about: agentic AI, security and governance in high-accountability environments, and teaching. He is a frequent conference speaker on AI/ML, DevSecOps, agile delivery, and scalable architecture.

What he does

Organizational transformation and change leadership, designing Centers of Excellence, building operational infrastructure, and deploying agentic AI responsibly where the stakes are high.

Why he teaches

“The game has shifted from how to build to why and what to build.” He believes security and AI literacy should be accessible to every builder — the same conviction behind Nirvik Learning.

AIUC-1 Consortium

Murali is a member of the AIUC-1 Consortium — the group of 200+ security leaders, AI researchers, and legal experts (with technical contributors including MITRE, OWASP, and the Cloud Security Alliance) that maintains AIUC-1, the world’s first security, safety, and reliability standard for AI agents.

Why this matters for this course

AIUC-1 is, in effect, “SOC 2 for AI agents” — it certifies that an agent implements real controls across data & privacy, security, safety, reliability, accountability, and societal impact, backed by independent audits and quarterly adversarial testing. That is precisely the discipline this master class points toward: as the Autonomous SOC and tools like Trinetra put AI agents on both sides of security, standards like AIUC-1 are how we hold them accountable.

Published playbooks

Murali has authored two practitioner playbooks for the age of agentic AI:

Agentic Transformation of Enterprises The Tria Federal playbook (2024) for transforming enterprises with agentic AI — strategy, operating model, and governance for high-accountability environments.

Mission-Driven Teams Playbook A practical framework — with role-specific workbooks for 16+ positions — for building mission-driven, human-centered teams in the age of agentic AI.

Teaching & community

Beyond his industry work, Murali founded Teaching for Good (2018), which pairs teaching and mentoring with fundraising for nonprofits, and has run 15+ Google CS First clubs introducing computer science to students. This master class — part of Nirvik Learning — continues that thread: bringing serious, current security education to every builder, with no gatekeeping.

Connect

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Mission-Driven Teams The team-building playbook

Agentic Enterprise The enterprise transformation playbook

Nirvik Learning Security education for every builder