Namaste

Hi, I'm Kalyan Cheerla (kc, kite, gh0st), a software engineer, AI tinkerer, security enthusiast, homelab builder, and researcher. Many names, many interests but always curious at heart ❤️.

Welcome to my digital garden 🌱, a place where I share thoughts, tools, and experiments across AI, security, homelabing, automations, and more. I write about anything that inspires me and everything that transpires through my explorations of building and breaking stuff 🛠️.

Thanks for stopping by! I'm always open to new opportunities and collaborations. Peek at my resume below alongside my socials, or dive into the recent posts 👇.

Recent Posts

• FHE vs Garbled Circuits: Making MLaaS possible through Secure Computation

  11 Oct, 2025

  A simple walkthrough of how Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Garbled Circuits help make Machine Learning private, based on my recent paper comparing both for secure neural network inference.

• Indirect Prompt Injection: Lessons from testing VoxPilot

  16 Sep, 2025

  Tested indirect prompt injection on my AI assistant - VoxPilot, and saw how easily these attacks can scale. Here's why everyone should care.

• Operators and Knowledge States in the AI Safety Realm

  2 Sep, 2025

  A perspective on how operators and knowledge states can improve AI robustness, transparency, and alignment.

• VoxPilot: Private Voice-Augmented AI Assistant for Hands-Free Web Browsing

  6 Aug, 2025

  A Chrome extension that uses Gemini Nano to provide a privacy-first, on-device AI assistant for seamless, hands-free, voice-driven web browsing.