I'm a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft working on Azure's confidential computing and security offerings. My focus is helping customers safely bring their most sensitive workloads to the cloud.
Tagline: Technology, security, and the questions that keep me up at night
- Security & Privacy by Design: Building systems that are useful, fair, and resilient in the real world
- Responsible AI: Deeply interested in how we build AI systems with governance, safety, and societal impact in mind
- Confidential Computing: Protecting data in use through hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments
- Payment Systems: Background in mobile payments (Apple Pay, Android Pay, tokenization)
- Technologies: Confidential Computing, TEEs, Containers
- Domains: Security Architecture, Payment Protocols (AP2), AI/ML Systems, Blockchain
- Product: Innovation teams, security architecture, responsible AI implementation
I write about the intersection of technology, security, and life at pawankhandavilli.com, exploring:
- Confidential computing and practical cloud operations
- Responsible AI (governance, safety, societal impact)
- Security that's usable instead of annoying
- How old ideas help solve new problems
Recent Articles:
- From NFC Startups to Confidential Computing: My Journey Through Trusted Service Providers
- Google's AP2 Protocol: Building Trust in Autonomous Transactions
- WhatsApp's Private Processing: Confidential Computing at Internet Scale
"Titles aside, my job is simple: ship things people trust. I care about security and privacy by design. I do not worship complexity, I try to remove it. When something is hard to explain, I take that as a bug, not a feature."
- 🇮🇳 Grew up in Visakhapatnam (Vizag), India
- 🏦 Seven years at a bank leading mobile payments and security architecture
- 💡 Time at confidential computing startups
- 📜 Patent holder in security and payments
- 🍁 Moved to Canada at 21 - those formative years taught me that the most interesting questions rarely have easy answers
Based in Garner, North Carolina with my wife and two kids (including a newborn!). When I'm not thinking about product strategy, you'll find me:
- 🍳 Cooking (perfecting Andhra mess-style meals or revisiting my late mother's recipes)
- 📚 Exploring meditation practices and diving into history
- 👨👩👧👦 Spending time with family
- 🌲 Building the Garner Tech Collective - a local tech community
If you're building something in secure cloud, AI, or payments, or you just want to trade notes on how old ideas help with new problems—reach out!
- 🌐 Website: pawankhandavilli.com
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/pawankhandavilli
- 🐦 Twitter/X: @khpawan
"How do we make security usable instead of annoying? What are the hidden ways our privacy gets compromised? These are the questions that actually keep me up at night."