Arun Narasimhan

Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead Manager @ Google 

Chair of IoT committee @ Messaging, Malware, Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group, a global industry consortium to advance security and help prevent online abuse

Advisor @ Africa Online Safety Platform, a non-profit which provides resources, research and funding for a safer internet in Africa

Faculty @ Trust & Safety Africa Academy, a non-profit that equips African professionals to build safe digital ecosystems

Reviewer for the following journals 

• IEEE Internet of Things Journal,  

• Journal of Internet Services and Applications

• IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Guest lecture at Trust & Safety Academy, Africa - Mar 1, 2025 

API World Virtual Session - World's largest API Conference & Expo - Nov 14, 2024

API World - World's largest API Conference & Expo at Santa Clara, CA - Nov 7, 2024

Public Interest Social Media Solutions Workshop at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA - July 31, 2024

Talk on 'Safety by Design' at the Trust and Safety Workshop held by the Ghana Internet Safety Foundation - June 1, 2024

Global momentum builds toward secure IoT ecosystems @ M3AAWG - Aug 18, 2025

AI-powered cybersecurity convergence from edge to cloud @ The AI Journal - Feb 14, 2025

Towards a Global IoT Security Paradigm @ Infosecurity Magazine - Nov 29, 2024

From check-in to check-out: Ensuring cybersecurity in hospitality @ Security Magazine - July 15, 2024

Judge at CES Innovation Awards 2025, the most powerful tech event in the world. 

U.S. National Science Foundation reviewer for Cybersecurity in 2024 & 2025. I review grant proposals for NSF's America's Seed Fund program, which provides non-dilutive early stage funding to U.S. small businesses to develop and commercialize innovative technologies.

Advisor to Africa Online Safety Platform, a non-profit dedicated to advancing digital safety across Africa, funded by Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google.

Faculty at Trust & Safety Africa Academy, a pan-African non-profit program dedicated to training professionals to tackle cybersecurity challenges.

Reviewer for several top tier academic journals in IoT and Cybersecurity.

Judge at API World Hackathon 2024, the World’s Largest API + Cloud Integration Hackathon.

Judge at Trust & Safety Hackathon 2024.

Mentor for high school kids at Mountain House High School, California. Judge at Mountain Hacks 2024.

Judge at CS Base Climate Hack 2024.

Google's COVID response project

• Volunteered and built a project to help doctors remotely monitor patients in hospitals during peak COVID in 2020. I specifically built a critical security feature to keep video streams on premise.

• Blog Post - When My Mom Sewed Masks and I Wrote Code 

• Received an award from Rick Osterloh, SVP @ Google for my contributions:  Google HOW Award recipient

• https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/11/mount-sinai-deploys-google-nest-cameras-for-covid-19-patient-monitoring-and-communication/ 

• https://www.cnet.com/culture/googles-nest-cameras-help-monitor-coronavirus-patients-at-mount-sinai-hospital/ 

• https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/mount-sinai-using-google-nest-monitor-patients-reducing-person-contact 

ADT+

• I was the Tech Lead on this project at Google for Cameras and Doorbells; built the core APIs needed for the ADT+ app and security monitoring service.

• Received the CES 2023 Innovation Award : ADT + Google

• https://newsroom.adt.com/corporate-news/adt-introduces-self-setup-featuring-google-nest-products 

• https://newsroom.adt.com/corporate-news/new-adt-app-creates-seamless-user-experience

• https://www.wsj.com/articles/home-security-company-adt-betting-on-google-partnership-to-build-revenue-11624872600 

• https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/3/21352360/google-adt-investment-nest-smart-home-security-alarms-machine-learning-alerts 

Google Assistant Voice Typing

• Wrote the technical roadmap for Generative AI features for Google Assistant Voice Typing.

• https://www.androidpolice.com/gboard-proofread-ai-beta/ 

• https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/google-tests-ai-powered-proofread-feature-in-gboard-keyboard-details-here-123091100470_1.html 

Nest's Device Access program

• I was the Tech Lead for the Device Access program, which allows 3rd party apps to integrate with Google Devices. Built this end to end from requirements gathering to launch and maintenance. Led a team of engineers, designers, xfn. Innovations included a novel trait based API schema to allow for granular permission sharing at device feature level, which laid the foundation for Matter, which is a technical standard for Smart Home and IoT. Launched to thousands of partner apps like Alexa, Samsung Smart Things, Vivint, etc.

• https://9to5google.com/2020/09/22/google-nest-devices-access/ 

• https://developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/google-nest-device-access-console.html

• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/abode-announces-google-nest-integration-301813304.html 

• https://about.dish.com/2019-12-20-DISH-introduces-Google-Nest-Hello-to-the-Hopper-platform 

Google Messages spam protection

• I was the Tech Lead Manager for the Google Messages spam protection team. I managed a team that protected over a billion users from online abuse.

• Independent lab reports conclude that Google Messages provided the best spam protection features.

• https://blog.google/products/android/android-scam-and-phishing-protection/