Dipanjan Das
Security Engineer at Microsoft
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDipanjan Das is a Security Engineer at Microsoft with a PhD in System Security and 13 years of hands-on experience in offensive security research, vulnerability discovery, and defensive remediations. He has a proven track record breaking and hardening complex systems—from auditing source code and reverse engineering custom protocols to building protocol-specific fuzzers and automated binary patching tools. Prior roles include senior research on Fortinet’s red team, kernel fuzzing research at the University of Minnesota, and building memory-safe APIs and fuzzing platforms at Qualcomm, reflecting deep systems and tooling expertise. Based in Sunnyvale, he blends academic rigor with practical exploitation and mitigation skills, often turning exploit insights into deployable fixes. An under-the-radar strength is his cross-domain fluency: firmware, OS internals, network protocols and automated patching, enabling both novel discoveries and scalable defenses.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Engineering at Institute of Engineering and Management
English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (191)
testing10
low-level10
coverage10
linux10
lldb10
gdb10
debugging10
exploit10
external10
pickle9
code-security9
dependency-analysis9
security9
python9
fuzzer9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
abilng/MTech-Assignments
Nov 2012 - Nov 2013
Contributions:51 commits in 11 months
dipanjan/dipanjan.github.io
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:48 commits, 44 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
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