Harish Vundavalli is a Senior Technical Architect at Strategic Education, Inc., with over 15 years of global experience across India, Australia, and the United States. He specializes in enterprise-scale, cloud-native platforms, AI, data, integration architecture, and production-ready systems.

He actively drives practical AI adoption with a strong focus on security, governance, risk management, and trustworthy AI guardrails. His work spans model monitoring, data integrity, access control, bias detection, and protection against emerging AI risks such as prompt injection and data leakage.

Harish has led transformation programs at organizations including Petco and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He also contributes as a journal reviewer, AI research contributor, mentor, hackathon judge, and industry speaker, bridging real-world enterprise experience with academic and innovation communities.