# Sahana Chennabasappa (slim)

> Sahana Chennabasappa is AI Security Engineer; LlamaFirewall paper first-listed author. LlamaFirewall on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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AI Security Engineer; LlamaFirewall paper first-listed author.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahana-chennabasappa-69a77576

## What Sahana builds

- [LlamaFirewall](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llamafirewall.md), graded D, 51.1/100, in Guardrails & safety filters. LlamaFirewall is Meta's open-source Python library for screening an AI agent's inputs, tool results and outputs. It runs scanners for prompt injection, hidden characters, insecure generated code and goal drift, and returns allow, block or human review. AI Security Engineer; LlamaFirewall paper first-listed author, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Abraham Montilla](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/abraham-montilla/), Llama Guard 4 release/model-card contributor (GitHub amontilla0)
- [Connor Treacy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/connor-treacy/), Meta Product Manager; Meta Model API launch-guide co-author
- [Josh Walters](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/josh-walters/), Developer marketing; Meta Model API launch-guide co-author
- [Joshua Saxe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/joshua-saxe/), LlamaFirewall research coauthor; former Meta security AI leader
- [Mahesh Pasupuleti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mahesh-pasupuleti/), Senior Engineering Leader, Meta Superintelligence Labs, AI Safety and Alignment; led Llama Guard development
- [Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mark-zuckerberg/), Founder, Meta
- [Tatiana Shavrina](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tatiana-shavrina/), AI/ML Research Lead; Muse Glimmer research team

## Questions

### Who is Sahana Chennabasappa?

Sahana Chennabasappa is AI Security Engineer; LlamaFirewall paper first-listed author.

### What does Meta make?

Anchor Terminal lists LlamaFirewall from Meta.

### How are Sahana's tools graded?

LlamaFirewall is graded D, 51.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/llamafirewall-an-open-source-guardrail-system-for-building-secure-ai-agents/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahana-chennabasappa-69a77576
- https://x.com/joshua_saxe
- https://dev.meta.ai/
- https://github.com/meta-llama/PurpleLlama/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- https://github.com/meta-llama/PurpleLlama/tree/main/LlamaFirewall

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