Summary
Anirudh Veeraragavan is a security-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable systems and processes to identify and mitigate risk. He has progressed through hands-on security engineering roles at Plaid, rising from Security Software Engineer to Senior and briefly Staff Security Software Engineer, contributing to both product security and platform hardening. Based in New York, he blends practical secure-by-design engineering with an operator’s mindset for scalable processes. His background includes internships at FireEye, Facebook, and Affirm and an early software role on UCLA’s ELFIN CubeSat project, giving him a mix of product, research, and operational experience. Comfortable shipping production systems, he’s also practiced at translating security requirements into developer-friendly controls that reduce friction. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers building systems that prevent issues rather than just respond to them.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
French, Tamil, English