Karan Bansal is the Global Head of AI and Security Innovation at ArmorCode, with over 10 years of experience in security. Previously, he served as Head of Security and Privacy at Urban Company and was a founding engineer at AvidSecure, a multi-cloud security startup acquired by Sophos in 2019. He is the author of "Claude Code's Most Underrated Feature: Hooks" and maintainer of the open-source claude-code-hooks toolkit (330+ GitHub stars), a growing collection of security-focused hooks for AI coding agents. He also built reddit-mcp-buddy (580+ stars) and curates awesome-claude-skills (240+ stars). He is also a contributor to SGLang (25k+ stars), the open-source LLM inference engine powering trillions of tokens daily at companies like xAI, NVIDIA, and LinkedIn. He writes about AI agent security at karanbansal.in and contributes to the OWASP GenAI security community.