Rejected from cybersecurity jobs, he built the job instead

Gourab Dasgupta's origin story is refreshingly free of mythology. He had been trying to land a job in cybersecurity for a while, a field he genuinely loves, and kept getting rejected. So, he reasoned, why not create the job himself. Sentrint is what came of that decision.

The problem he picked is one the current software boom has quietly created. A wave of people are now building apps by prompting AI, shipping fast, and shipping code they did not write and often cannot audit. Security, for them, is an afterthought at best. Sentrint scans the repository behind an AI-built app and surfaces the exploitable risks hiding inside it.

What it actually does

Under the hood, the scanner analyses secrets, database access rules, dependencies and risky code paths. An AI layer then cuts down the false positives that make most security tools exhausting to use, and drafts a platform-specific fix prompt for the exact tool that built the app, whether that is Claude, Gemini, Cursor or another. The reports grade your risk, explain each finding in plain English, and verify improvements across rescans. Scanning is ephemeral and privacy is enforced strictly, a deliberate choice for a tool asking developers to point it at their own code.

His pitch for it is blunt, and knowingly cheeky: vibe coders no longer have to worry about security, and it costs less than a coffee.

Being a founder is a 24-hour fight, and I don't hate it at all.

The honest struggle

Dasgupta is unusually open about what is not working yet. His two hardest problems are trust and retention. People visit the homepage, hesitate to sign up because they do not yet trust it, and leave. And because a single scan often solves the immediate problem, there is little reason to come back and rescan. He is not hiding from either. His plan is to launch an MCP integration that makes the whole flow smoother and more autonomous, so that a developer can simply tell their AI assistant to run the scan and fix the bugs, without leaving the tools they already work in.

What he has taken from the grind so far is unglamorous and true: do not give up, and do not assume you are the first to face a problem, because others have, and they are worth talking to. The longer goal is bigger than a scanner. Dasgupta wants Sentrint to become a full agentic security ecosystem, the layer that quietly watches the code the next generation of builders never wrote by hand.

This profile is drawn from Gourab Dasgupta's own account of building Sentrint, an early-stage venture. Product details are as described by the founder.