United States

Security Engineering

Development Operations

Site Reliability

Master of Science - MS

Bachelor of Engineering - BE

Chaitanya Rahalkar

Software Security Engineer

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Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

◦ Performed security audits, compliance tests, vulnerability assessments and penetration tests for Praetorian’s clients.
◦ Designed and developed threat models and communicated security findings with concerned stakeholders.
◦ Audited web products, mobile and TV apps for security flaws and bugs for clients like Nordstrom, Block, Affirm, Salesforce, Fox News, Amazon, Akamai etc.

Graduate teaching assistant for CS 6260 - Applied Cryptography under Dr. Sasha Boldyreva.

• Designed and developed coverage-guided fuzzing harnesses with LLVM Libfuzzer that run on Meta's
Continuous Fuzzing platform - Lionhead.
• Found 10+ security bugs in Meta's production code and tooling systems through fuzzing and code
reviews / auditing.
• Audited and statically analyzed code in the WhatsApp Payment Engine system for security and privacy
issues. Found 5+ CVE-worthy security bugs.
• Worked on developing an automated fuzzing harness generation system to get coverage guided fuzzing
for 100,000+ API endpoints.
• Designed a fuzzing metrics system and visualization dashboard for coverage and fuzzing performance
insights.

Head Teaching Assistant for CS 6238 - Secure Computer Systems

Responsibilities include -
◦ Managing TAs
◦ Grading projects and reports
◦ Setting and evaluating exams, quizzes and projects.
◦ Assisting and advising students on relevant topics & research ideas

Graduate Teaching Assistant for CS 6238 - Secure Computer Systems

Responsibilities include - 
1. Grading projects and reports
2. Setting and evaluating exams 
3. Assisting and advising students on relevant topics & research

• Worked on the development of Anti-Virus, Anti-Phishing, Software Sandboxing, Application Firewall
etc. components as a part of the company's Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP).
• Worked on the design, development and deployment of a network-based intrusion detection system
(NIDS) supplemented with an intrusion analytics and insights system. Simulated, detected and
analyzed 100+ network intrusion attacks with the NIDS.
• Developed a Software-Defined Perimeter prototype based on the Zero Trust Network architecture

- Worked on End-to-End Lung Cancer Screening with Chest Computed Tomography Scans using
Convolutional Neural Networks.
- Worked on creating a unified interface for radiologists & researchers to analyze CT scans.
- Supplemented the unified application using XAI (Explainable AI) to simplify the analysis of the scans

Selected among top 80 candidates from all over India to be part of the Computer Science and Automation Summer School 2019 at Indian Institute of Sciences for learning cutting edge technologies and exploring research areas in Computer Science.

- Developed a secure central authentication service (CAS).
- Designed SDKs for Python and Golang to integrate the CAS with web applications.
- Developed the PoC using open-source programs and frameworks - Django, OSQuery, MongoDB, and Redis (Caching System) and PyInstaller (Code packaging).

- Worked on the study of side-channel attacks that target the virtualization level (the lowest level of the
software stack) of an Operating System.
- Assisted in creating a meta classifier-based ensemble learning model for attack detection.
- Developed a granular performance monitoring script to generate system logs.
- Researched various techniques used by attackers to exploit private information from the set of target
virtual machines running on cloud platforms.

1. Bank Reconciliation Solution: 
- Developed a backend system using Django framework for the administration panel
- Worked on developing a software that reconciles transaction records of the bank and transaction history of its customers.
- Used data analytics to provide a statistical overview of the reconciled records.
- Audited the codebase for security vulnerabilities. 

2. OTT (over-the-top) Video Streaming Solution: 
- Worked on a scalable architectural design of a video on-demand solution used by more than 500,000 users.
- Audited the backend & Cordova (iOS + Android native app development framework) for security issues and vulnerabilities.

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