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S11 E9: The AppSec Illusion: Demolishing Blind Spots and Transitioning from Legacy API Monitors to Unified, Runtime AI Security Planes with Buchi Reddy, Founder & CEO of Levo.ai
Jul 22, 2025 · Season 11 · Episode 9 · 20 min
Automated API Testing for the Enterprise
Buchi Reddy lives in North Austin, having recently moved there with his family. He is originally from south India, and grew up in a farming family before moving to the metro and studying engineering. Post college, he spent many years building high frequency trading systems, before moving to Silicon Valley and joining companies there, just as Cisco and Traceable, which you as the audience are very familiar with. Outside of tech, he is married with a 7 year old son. He and his family enjoy hiking, overnight camping, and living just far enough away from the craziness of downtown Austin to still enjoy it.
While he was interviewing customers at a prior company, Buchi spotted a wide gap for enterprises, where API's were not tested properly before going to production. Baffled by this, he wanted to go bridge the gap, and build something to automate this testing.
This is the creation story of Levo.
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