Gaurav Pawaskar
Senior Product Security Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolGaurav Pawaskar is a Senior Product Security Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of hands-on experience securing web applications and products across enterprise environments. He has a deep background in applied pen testing, threat modeling and secure SDLC practices from roles at Symantec, Workday, and now LinkedIn, and holds the OSCP certification. Comfortable with low-level and application-level development, he pairs security expertise with pragmatic coding skills in C/C++, Java, Node.js, Python and more to build tools and perform in-depth code audits. His academic foundation includes a Computer Science master’s from Georgia Tech, reinforcing a research-minded approach to applied cryptography and vulnerability discovery. An active security blogger, he documents research and findings publicly, highlighting a commitment to knowledge sharing beyond day-to-day product work. Colleagues know him for tackling high-impact, hard-to-reproduce issues and translating research insights into production-safe mitigations.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B. E., Computer, B. E., Computer at Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of EngineeringSSC, SSC at Utkarsh MandirHSC, Science, HSC, Science at Patkar CollegeMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyPGDBA, E-Commers, PGDBA, E-Commers at Welingkar Institute of Management
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rohitpitkeappsec/SecAutomationFramework
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:43 commits, 42 pushes, 21 comments in 6 months
gauravpawaskar/FaceRecognition
Nov 2018 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years 7 months
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