Hardik Desai
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
United States
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Top SchoolHardik Desai is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and securing large-scale authentication and identity systems across enterprise products. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from USC and has led engineering and managerial efforts at companies like GoTo, LogMeIn, Citrix and now Uber, delivering measurable security and UX improvements such as passkeys adoption and a 50% faster login flow. Hardik combines hands-on implementation—OAuth, PKCE, JWT, AWS Lambda—with threat modeling (STRIDE) and operational excellence, cutting incident resolution times through better monitoring and alerting. As an engineering manager he increased team velocity and drove cross-functional launches, and as an individual contributor he unified disparate products under central identity to simplify millions of user logins. He’s comfortable translating security research into production controls and automation, and often pairs customer empathy with pragmatic technical trade-offs to ship resilient systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
Github Skills (16)
alfred-workflow9
minecraft8
python8
fabric6
minecraft-forge6
forge6
alfred6
java5
artificial-intelligence4
machine-learning4
discounts3
computercraft3
mc2
solar1
discord-bot1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
harry2258/AlfredV2-FTB-IRC-
Dec 2013 - Jul 2016
Contributions:256 commits, 10 PRs, 50 pushes in 2 years 6 months
alfredalfred-workflow
harry2258/Project-Intelligence-Docs
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
pythonall-the-thingsmachine-learningartificial-intelligenceintelligence
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