Fenil Shah
Product Designer at Akto.io
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFenil Shah is a product designer in Palo Alto with three years of experience shaping user-centric security products and developer tools. Currently at Akto.io, he drives product decisions and crafts the user experience for an API security platform, blending design sensibility with an understanding of security workflows from his time as a security researcher at Synack Red Team. His background as a GitHub Campus Expert and volunteer work with Mozilla reflect a commitment to developer communities and open collaboration. Fenil pairs a technical foundation from a BCA in Computer Science with hands-on research in offensive security, which informs pragmatic, usable interfaces for complex domains. Colleagues know him for translating dense security concepts into intuitive product flows that accelerate adoption. Based in the Bay Area, he brings a rare mix of design craft, security experience, and community-driven impact.
3 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BCA - Bachelor of Computer Applications, Computer Science, BCA - Bachelor of Computer Applications, Computer Science at Navrachana University
Github Skills (7)
api-security10
security-testing10
authentication10
devsecops10
authorization10
api-testing10
security10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
AyushBherwani1998/agentic-hackathon
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
ETH Global Agentic Hackathon Project
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
akto-api-security/akto
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Proactive, Open source API security → API discovery, API Security Posture, Testing in CI/CD, Test Library with 1000+ Tests, Add custom tests, Sensitive data exposure
Contributions:5 reviews, 74 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 years 2 months
api-discoveryapi-securityapi-security-postureapi-security-testingapi-testing
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