Joel D'sa
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel D'sa is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and security-focused technology leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling secure infrastructure for large cloud and enterprise platforms. Based in Sunnyvale, he has guided security strategy and access-control systems at Google—reducing insider risk and shaping the Secure AI framework—after leading security, privacy, and compliance through Apigee’s IPO and acquisition. He combines deep backend and DevOps expertise from contributions to widely used open-source Cloud Foundry projects (notably UAA and cf-release) with practical experience hardening authentication and deployment pipelines. Joel is comfortable operating at both hands-on implementation and organizational leadership levels, having replaced critical auth infrastructure at scale without user disruption. His work blends data-driven risk reduction, supply-chain controls, and developer-friendly security products that are widely adopted across diverse businesses. Colleagues would describe him as a mission-driven engineer who builds durable systems and cultivates high-caliber teams that sustain long-term product impact.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Pune University
Github Skills (24)
cloud-foundry10
configuration-management10
http10
user-authentication10
authentication10
java10
ruby10
tomcat10
javas10
devops10
oauth10
testing9
apidoc9
bash9
oid9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/uaa
Feb 2012 - Oct 2013
CloudFoundry User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:145 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the UAA gem, focusing on token decoding and HTTP client functionalities. They addressed issues in the token decoder, merged bug fixes, and added support for asynchronous HTTP requests, including the integration of libraries like EventMachine and Em-HTTP. Further contributions included support for user creation using SCIM, and updates to testing frameworks like webmock and the associated tests.
openid-connectuaaoidcaccountauthentication
cloudfoundry-attic/cf-release
Apr 2012 - Aug 2013
Deprecated: Cloud Foundry Release
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:78 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure and deployment aspects of the Cloud Foundry release. Their commits involved the configuration and setup of components such as ACM, UAA, and the login server. They integrated syslog aggregation and made modifications to ensure HTTPS usage and proper environment variable handling, specifically addressing UAA-related configurations. Furthermore, they also worked on various deployment configurations.
foundrycloud-foundrycloudfoundrypcfalibabacloud
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