# About Shrivu Shankar

Shrivu Shankar is VP, AI Strategy at [Abnormal AI](https://abnormal.ai/), where he builds AI-native security products. He is based in San Francisco.

He joined Abnormal in 2022 as a machine learning engineer, using large language models to build cybersecurity products and superhuman detection systems, and became VP, AI Strategy in 2025. He holds a BS in Computer Science from [The University of Texas at Austin](https://www.utexas.edu/) (2018–2022).

He writes about coding agents, LLM systems, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI security, and the future of software engineering at [Shrivu's Substack](https://blog.sshh.io/), with widely shared essays including "Everything Wrong with MCP", "How Cursor (AI IDE) Works", and "Building Multi-Agent Systems".

He has been building software in public since 2016 — 100+ projects spanning AI, full-stack, mobile, and security, cataloged at [sshh.io/code](https://sshh.io/code) with source on [GitHub](https://github.com/sshh12).

He is open to [coffee chats](https://sshh.io/coffee-chat) with students, founders, and investors about AI, agents, and careers.

Find him on [GitHub](https://github.com/sshh12), [X](https://x.com/ShrivuShankar), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrivushankar/), [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sshh12), or [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bIUsRBQAAAAJ), or reach out via the [contact form](https://sshh.io/contact).

*Last updated: 2026-08-21.*