Our Journey

We have felt the pain firsthand!

We're a team of builders, developers, and OSS maintainers with a mission to combine world-class infrastructure, developer experience, and security expertise to empower modern engineering teams pushing the frontier.

Garnet was born out of hard lessons. At their previous AI infrastructure startup, Umar and Farrukh faced every founder’s nightmare: a cryptominer slipped into production through a compromised Python dependency. Despite having the usual layers of vulnerability and static analysis tools, the attack went unnoticed as outbound traffic quietly tunneled to a minerpool. It took weeks to untangle what had happened and recover from the damage.

That experience made one thing clear: security that stops at static code scanning isn’t enough. You need to see code as it runs, to detect and block anomalous runtime behavior before it turns into a breach.

That moment became the spark for Garnet: code runtime monitoring built with a deep understanding of developers' needs, modern stacks, and emerging threats.

Our engineering team brings unmatched expertise in eBPF and observability infrastructure. As core maintainers of Aqua Tracee and Fluent Bit, and with experience building and scaling critical systems at Red Hat, Canonical, IBM, and Chronosphere, we know what it takes to deliver next-generation code runtime security at scale.