Summary
Bikash Poudel is a Principal Security Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience in applied cryptography, hardware and firmware security, and secure systems architecture across industry and research settings. He has led security work at Oracle and Intel and helped design interoperable and offline payment protocols as an Applied Cryptographer at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Bikash blends offensive and defensive perspectives—conducting vulnerability discovery, secure firmware/hardware design, and post-quantum cryptography integration—to harden products from silicon through cloud. His background includes academic research in FPGA-based security cores and hardware trojan detection, giving him a rare mix of theoretical depth and practical engineering. Based in Folsom, CA, he is known for translating complex crypto primitives and accelerator technologies into deployable solutions that improve real-world payment and cloud security.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at University of Nevada, Reno
Engineer's Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Engineer's Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus
English, Nepali