Shubham Palriwala is a San Francisco–based co-founder and backend engineer with five years of experience building secure, privacy-conscious systems for startups and open-source projects. He has held early-engineer and founding roles at companies like Agnost AI, Onboarding.club and Formbricks while also completing a Cisco internship where he added FreeRADIUS auth support and implemented proto/Kafka workflows. An active OSS contributor and program alumnus (GSoC @ OWASP Juice Shop, GSoD @ OpenMined, LFX @ Kyverno), he has improved Juice Shop’s backend security features and hardened PySyft’s install/docs — bridging application security and privacy-preserving ML. Certified Ethical Hacker (v11), he uniquely blends offensive-security instincts with practical privacy engineering. That mix of startup execution, protocol-level experience, and hands-on open-source contributions makes him comfortable shipping both product-facing features and developer-facing infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
SGVP International school
APS International
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science with Specialization in Information Security, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science with Specialization in Information Security at Vellore Institute of Technology
Perform data science on data that remains in someone else's server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:13 reviews, 71 commits, 15 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Shubham's commits primarily address installation and setup procedures for the `pysyft` project. The user fixed linux installation issues by modifying the installation documentation. Additionally, the user addressed merging conflicts and updating the documentation.
OWASP Juice Shop: Probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Contributions:25 reviews, 93 commits, 20 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Shubham primarily contributed to the back-end of the application by updating and creating data models and functionalities, including user management, wallet features, and recycling processes. The commits focused on the data layer, demonstrating familiarity with database interactions and data structure design. Furthermore, the user made security-related changes by implementing security questions, and security answer features indicating a focus on application security.
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