Karan Bansal

Karan Bansal is Global Head of AI and Security Innovation at ArmorCode, with over 10 years in security. He previously led security and privacy at Urban Company (a $2.8B unicorn) and was a founding engineer at AvidSecure, acquired by Sophos in 2019. He authored "Claude Code's Most Underrated Feature: Hooks" and maintains the open-source claude-code-hooks toolkit (439 stars), a collection of security hooks for AI coding agents mapped to the OWASP LLM Top 10. He also built reddit-mcp-buddy (748 stars) and curates awesome-claude-skills (420 stars). He contributes to SGLang and vLLM, and speaks at DEFCON and OWASP.