Eduardo Velasco is Co-Founder and CTO at Silmaril, the world's first self-healing prompt injection defense for AI-native applications and agents.

Eduardo holds a BS in Mathematics from The University of Texas at Arlington and spent over a decade at Amazon as a tech lead, building hardened ML models and agents for Amazon's homepage that generated $400M in annual revenue.

Eduardo proves AI security risks are real by finding exploits himself, having chained a prompt injection into root access inside ChatGPT, and co-hacking OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft 15 times in two weeks as a whitehat hacker.

Prior to Silmaril, Eduardo worked at Amazon and OrderMyGear, collectively contributing to $2.2B in savings and new revenue alongside his co-founder through security and AI innovation.

Silmaril has blocked 96% of real-world prompt injection attacks compared to 61% by leading guardrails, and has already stopped $28M in damages for customers since launch.