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