Kashyap Puranik
Software Engineer at Databricks
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKashyap Puranik is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in Trust & Safety, anti-abuse, and security systems. After a long tenure at Google and leadership at YouTube tackling spam, phishing, bots, and manipulation, he has built and led teams that defend large-scale consumer platforms. More recently he’s combined that domain expertise with generative AI and endpoint intelligence—leading TrustLab’s AI-driven T&S work and architecting zero-trust detection at Stairwell before joining Databricks. Comfortable in both big-tech and startup settings, he designs pragmatic, production-grade systems that balance detection accuracy with operational scalability. A product-minded engineer and ex-Googler based in Mountain View, he pairs deep technical chops with a knack for translating adversarial research into deployed defenses. An understated strength is his consistent focus on measurable integrity outcomes—reducing abuse while keeping user-facing friction low.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Kannada, English
Github Skills (4)
python4
chemistry4
thunderbird3
kde-plasma2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kashyaprpuranik/WikiMining
Aug 2011 - Oct 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes in 8 years 3 months
kashyaprpuranik/AlgoCode
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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