Amrit DePaulo
Technology executive. Former Gartner analyst who coined the term “SIEM.” Author of The 5Ms.
25+ years leading engineering and product organizations across cybersecurity, enterprise SaaS, and AI, from early stage through acquisition.
$1B+ combined M&A exit value · $200M+ SaaS ARR · 150+ Fortune 1000 deployments · teams across three continents
A Global Perspective on Technology Leadership
Born in Nepal and shaped by leadership across four continents, I have spent my career architecting platforms, building engineering organizations, and leading companies through growth and acquisition.
Over 25+ years leading engineering and product organizations, I have deployed enterprise solutions across 150+ Fortune 1000 companies in financial services and insurance, healthcare, retail, technology, government, and defense. Along the way that work has included a 75% reduction in infrastructure cost at scale and a 5x acceleration in deployment velocity.
From scaling global teams (10s to 100s of engineers, with 95% retention) to building AI platforms processing 100K+ full-workflow daily transactions, my work spans strategy, product, and hands-on technical execution. Earlier in my career I was a Gartner analyst in the information security and risk group, where I coined the term “SIEM.”
- Years of technology leadership
- 25+
- Combined M&A exit value
- $1B+
- Fortune 1000 deployments
- 150+
- Employee retention
- 95%
- Infrastructure cost reduction
- 75%
Current Work
CTO, Cobalt AI
Leading product and engineering for an AI-native physical security platform: autonomous indoor security robots, computer vision and vision-language models running on-device at the edge, and a monitoring intelligence layer where AI agents detect anomalies, correlate access events, and escalate verified threats to human operators in seconds.
Principal, Arctyra
AI adoption strategy and implementation, security architecture and threat modeling, and platform modernization for teams putting AI workloads into production. Independent technical diligence for acquirers, PE operating partners, and growth-stage investors. Insurance work covers AI governance, NAIC Model Bulletin compliance, and explainability frameworks.
Arctyra engagements →Author, The 5Ms
A book about preventing and recovering from burnout through five daily practices that retrain the nervous system. Publishing September 22, 2026. The 5Ms For Teams brings the same material into organizations through leadership training, interactive team workshops, and a guided 30-day program on sustaining performance without burning people out.
Learn more at the5ms.com →Writing
All writing →Mapping the 2008 thesis onto agents, harnesses, graphs, edge VLMs, and the swarm's new attack surface
Six-month scorecard: Korea settled its decrees while the EU deferred its high-risk regime
Nippon Life v. OpenAI and what AI advisory liability means for insurers and regulated sectors
Get in Touch
For consulting engagements, start at arctyra.ai. For speaking, writing, media, or anything else, use the form below or email me directly.