Our Journey

We have felt the pain firsthand!

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

Garnet was born out of hard lessons. When our founders Umar and Farrukh, friends for over 15 years, experienced a devastating cryptomining supply chain attack at their previous ML infrastructure startup, the limits of traditional security became painfully clear. They had static and vulnerability visibility, but were still blind as a miner ran inside their environment from a compromised container. It took weeks to backtrace the attack, cost them a significant penalty, and left them wishing they'd had runtime monitoring in place, not just to finally understand what was happening, but to stop the attack in its tracks.

That moment became the spark for Garnet: runtime security 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 runtime security at scale.