The lab
An independent lab, run hands-on and backed by sharp advisors.
Nativerse is run by Srinathprasanna Shanmugam, with a small group of advisors across data science, AI research, backend and go-to-market. Everything below is shipped and public, from a live data product to a security audit maintainers acted on.
Srinathprasanna Shanmugam
Founder and lead researcher, London
More than a decade inside enterprise software, from IBM and AT&T to fast-moving fintechs, banks and ISVs across Europe. Years spent watching how real systems break under scale, compliance and integration pressure. Nativerse points that experience at the security and verification of AI systems: equiv, the GAWK observatory, and the identity research. Nearly all of it is published, so every claim comes with a link you can check.
The work, by track.
Three tracks carry the lab, each anchored by something running today. A few sharper utilities sit below them. Each links to something you can open or read for yourself.
equiv
Differential execution: run a changed function and its previous version on identical inputs and prove whether the behaviour held, with a signed receipt that re-runs byte-for-byte. Proven on AI-written code; the same method extends to comparing model behaviour.
GAWK
Verified public data on how the AI ecosystem moves, from model releases to spend across more than thirty sources. Every figure links to its origin, and a dropped source greys out and keeps its last value instead of guessing. Cited, not invented.
Identity at scale
A scan of over two million repositories found 124 keying Google login on email instead of the stable OIDC sub claim. authdrift packages the check as six Semgrep rules; maintainers have merged fixes. The research direction is how this fails as agents inherit legacy auth.
Sharper tools
Small, deterministic tools built to solve isolated bottlenecks, open-sourced for the community: bharataddress (offline Indian address parsing), privacylint (App Store privacy checks), and codepulse (a CLAUDE.md audit).
People who keep the work honest.
A small group I lean on, from data science and AI research to backend and go-to-market.
Srinivas Sampath
Development Manager at Cognizant.
Venkhat Vairavan
Senior Data Scientist at Nutanix. IIT Bombay.
Suresh Kumar Ravi
Backend Lead at Caterpillar.
Sabari Nathan
Senior AI Engineer at Couger, Tokyo. Published at CVPR, ECCV and ICCV.
Raj Prasanna Ponnuraj
AI go-to-market lead at Oracle. UT Dallas.
Vasanth K Rajendran
Tech Lead at KLA Tencor.
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