Summary
Fahad Shaon is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in distributed computing, data analytics, cryptography, and confidential computing, currently working on BigQuery at Google. He has a strong track record of translating academic research into production-grade security and data systems—co-founding DataSecTech to commercialize fine-grained access control for big data and securing an NSF SBIR grant. His background spans SRE for cloud filesystems, building HIPAA-compliant healthcare software, and hands-on cluster orchestration for Spark/Hive with SecureDL enforcement. A PhD candidate in Computer Science with deep expertise in homomorphic encryption and machine learning, he blends research rigor with reliability engineering to keep large-scale systems secure and running. Notably, he pairs product-focused leadership with low-level debugging and refactoring skills that consistently improve long-term system maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
English, Bengali