Kart Kandula
Law Clerk at U.S. Courts of Appeals
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKart Kandula is a lawyer-technologist bridging Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Princeton, focused on the intersection of technology, antitrust, and online speech. With 13 years of experience spanning software engineering at Microsoft, security research on election systems, and legal roles at the FTC and DOJ, he blends rigorous technical depth with courtroom-grade legal analysis. He contributed to production-grade security tooling—improving X.509 certificate parsing in the widely used zgrab project—demonstrating practical impact on internet-wide scanning infrastructure. Now clerking at a U.S. Court of Appeals in New York, Kart brings a rare combination of systems-level engineering, policy insight, and empirical security research to complex regulatory and litigation questions.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Okemos High SchoolDoctor of Law - J.D., Doctor of Law - J.D. at Yale Law SchoolMaster of Science in Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering, Computer Science Engineering at University of Michigan College of EngineeringDoctor of Philosophy - Ph.D., Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D., Computer Science at Princeton University
Telugu, Spanish, English
Github Skills (3)
go10
asn110
certificate-transparency9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
zmap/zgrab
Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
**DEPRECATED** This project has been replaced by https://github.com/zmap/zgrab2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits, 6 PRs, 57 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kart primarily contributed to the `zgrab/zgrab` repository by fixing bugs, specifically related to the parsing of X.509 certificates and handling of precerts. Their work involved modifying the `ztools/x509/x509.go` and `ztools/x509/extensions.go` files to correctly parse certificate extensions and account for precert information. The user also implemented improvements to error handling within the X.509 parsing logic, as well as updating parsing for certificate names. These changes likely enhanced the robustness and feature set of the certificate parsing library.
zmap
votingworks/vx-iso
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Contents for creating a custom install stick for VotingWorks systems
Contributions:2 releases, 26 reviews, 67 PRs in 9 months
stickcontents
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