Khilan Gudka
Security Software Engineer at Hudson River Trading
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKhilan Gudka is a Security Software Engineer with 14 years of experience who blends deep academic research in program analysis, compilers, and concurrency with practical security engineering at HRT. He spent seven years as a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge working on CHERI and SOAAP, leading efforts to apply capability-based compartmentalisation to real-world C++ applications and improve semi-automated sandboxing techniques. Khilan has since brought that research-driven rigor to industry roles at G-Research and Hudson River Trading, focusing on hardening complex systems and pushing the envelope of what practical memory and compartmentalisation protections can achieve. He holds a PhD and an MEng from Imperial College London, graduating top of his class, and maintains a publication portfolio available on his personal homepage. Known for quickly mastering new environments, he combines low-level systems expertise with an appetite for tooling and analysis that makes security decisions more precise and automatable. An understated strength is his track record of translating cutting-edge security research into deployable engineering solutions for high-performance trading platforms.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Imperial College London
English, Gujarati
Github Skills (65)
gcc10
risc10
keyboard10
macos-sierra10
karabiner10
freebsd10
capability10
idris9
clang9
arm9
tla9
llvm9
risc-v9
macos9
compiler8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CTSRD-SOAAP/llvm
Mar 2013 - Jan 2018
Contributions:63 commits, 1 PR, 39 pushes in 4 years 10 months
CTSRD-SOAAP/openssh-portable
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:69 pushes in 1 day
sshlinuxportableopenssh
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