Bheesham Persaud
Staff Software Engineer, Workplace Technology (IAM) at Mozilla
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBheesham Persaud is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience and over a decade focused on backend systems, cloud infrastructure, security, and CI/CD. Currently at Mozilla, he has led identity and access management projects across workforce IdP, AWS IAM policies, and SSO tooling while previously driving infrastructure reliability and developer productivity at Auvik. He is fluent in Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS, and has a practical knack for translating security and operational requirements into maintainable automation and access controls. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic guidance on authn/authz, cost optimization, and migration decisions—he’s the engineer who will both write the IAM policy and explain why it reduces blast radius. His academic work on software diversity and gesture-based authentication hints at a long-standing interest in making systems both resilient and user-focused. Based in Mississauga, Canada, he balances hands-on implementation with mentoring and cross-team consulting to reduce toil and speed delivery.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Honours Computer and Internet Security, Bachelor of Computer Science Honours Computer and Internet Security at Carleton University
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Github Skills (200)
servo10
auth0-lock10
vim10
operating-system10
torrent10
browser10
idioms10
redox-os10
nodejs10
zsh10
freebsd10
cryptography10
daemon10
python10
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Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
bheesham/dotfiles
Jul 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 6 years 8 months
bheesham/frankenssl
Jan 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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