About
Srikar Dandamuraju is co-founder and CEO of Alter, an identity and access control platform for AI agents. He previously led platform engineering at Goldman Sachs, where he worked on post-trade infrastructure and card products, and held software engineering roles at Addepar and Clear Street.
Srikar Dandamuraju @realsreeks
We’re moving from: ✔️ Authorizing within a bounded set of known actions to ❗ Constraining actions composed at runtime Authorization becomes less about static permissions and more about constraining behavior in real time. That’s a different class of problem.
Apr 1, 2026 · ♥ 1
Srikar Dandamuraju @realsreeks
The shift is less about authentication. It’s about authorization. In traditional systems: Actions are explicitly defined and triggered by humans. In agentic systems: Actions are inferred from intent and executed autonomously.
Apr 1, 2026 · ♥ 1
Srikar Dandamuraju @realsreeks
We’ve built machine-to-machine systems before. We understand authentication. APIs, service accounts, OAuth. So what’s actually new?
Apr 1, 2026
Co-Founder & CEO at AlterYC S25
Intro paths
Srikar went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Alter's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Srikar can intro founders to Alter's investors below.
Alter's investors · 2
Co-founders at Alter
