Ashish Nadar

Resources

Scholarly templates, checklists, and reference material curated by Ashish Nadar for secure, operable software and AI-enabled systems.

Practical material for secure, operable engineering work.

This section collects reusable templates, playbooks, and research notes for teams working across cloud architecture, DevSecOps, production operations, risk management, and AI-enabled software.

Decision Support

Turn ambiguous engineering choices into documented decisions.

Use the policy, review, and risk templates to record tradeoffs, owners, evidence, and follow-up actions before work reaches production.

  • Architecture review notes
  • Risk acceptance records
  • Change approval context
Operational Readiness

Prepare teams for incidents, releases, and production reviews.

The procedure collection gives delivery teams repeatable runbooks for handling live systems, security checks, deployment readiness, and rollback planning.

  • Incident roles and escalation
  • Production readiness checks
  • Rollback and recovery paths
AI Governance

Evaluate AI features with governance built into the workflow.

Apply AI usage, evaluation, and monitoring templates to define acceptable use, feature-level risk, human review, and operational safeguards.

  • AI usage boundaries
  • Feature risk scoring
  • Monitoring and response addenda
Scholarly Templates and Artifacts by Ashish Nadar
Governance policy templates for secure SDLC, access control, and audit compliance
GovernancePolicy-ready starting points for teams that need clear engineering guardrails without slowing delivery.
  • Secure SDLC policy template
  • Logging and auditability policy template
  • Change/release policy template
  • Access control and secrets handling policy template
Engineering procedures for incident response runbooks and production readiness checklists
ProceduresStep-by-step operating procedures for incident response, releases, reviews, and production readiness.
  • Incident response runbook
  • Production readiness review checklist
  • Security review checklist
  • Deployment and rollback checklist
Risk assessment templates with scoring rubrics, risk registers, and threat models
RiskPractical risk tools for making likelihood, impact, ownership, and acceptance decisions explicit.
  • Risk scoring rubric (Likelihood x Impact)
  • Risk register template
  • Threat model template
  • Exception/acceptance workflow template (time-bound risk acceptance)
AI governance resources with usage policies, feature evaluation, and risk assessment templates
AIAI governance material for evaluating features, defining acceptable use, and monitoring model-enabled systems.
  • AI usage policy for engineering
  • AI feature evaluation checklist
  • AI feature risk assessment template
  • AI monitoring and incident response addendum