Kalpesh Dharwadkar
Product Security Engineer at Pinterest
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKalpesh Dharwadkar is a Product Security Engineer with seven years of hands-on experience securing enterprise products across companies like Pinterest, WePay, and Citrix. He blends threat modeling, penetration testing, and source-code review expertise with practical Secure SDLC delivery—having operationalized DAST/SCA tooling, automated security scans in CI/CD, and managed a HackerOne bug bounty program. Kalpesh has a strong academic foundation (MS in Information Security from Georgia Tech) and a track record of resolving high-severity field incidents, from binary planting to cross-session flaws, while guiding product teams to pragmatic fixes. Known for pragmatic automation (Python) and measurable impact—e.g., upgrading dozens of vulnerable dependencies across microservices—he communicates risk effectively to both technical and business stakeholders. Based in Redwood City, he pairs research-led rigor with production-first engineering to harden web, desktop, and mobile applications.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Information Security, Masters Information Security at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBE Computer Engineering, BE Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
English
Github Skills (12)
credentials9
secrets-manager9
secret-management8
secrets7
service-management7
wepay5
payment-gateway3
payment3
broker3
ecommerce2
marketplace2
api2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kalpeshdharwadkar/knox
Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
Knox is a secret management service
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
secretservice-managementknoxsecret-management
kalpeshdharwadkar/vulpy
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
Vulnerable Python Application To Learn Secure Development
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 day
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