Lalith Rallabhandi
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLalith Rallabhandi is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, production-grade systems at companies like Shopify, Stripe, and Microsoft. He blends backend engineering with application security expertise, having helped harden deployment tooling and identity/auth services and fixed real-world XSS vulnerabilities in open-source projects. Comfortable across Rails and fuzzing tools, he contributed core functionality to an API fuzzing platform and improved security and UX on publiclab.org and Shipit. A former Synack Red Team researcher, he brings offensive security insights to defensive engineering and secure coding practices. Based in Seattle, he pairs hands-on coding with a track record of shipping measurable security improvements at scale.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School High School/Secondary Education, High School High School/Secondary Education at Narayana Junior CollegeHigh School, High School at Bhashyam Public schoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Osmania University
English, Hindi, Telugu, Sanskrit, Japanese
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Github Skills (27)
api-rest10
ruby-rails10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
rails10
ruby10
security10
automation10
api10
rest-api10
automations10
ruby-on-rails10
wikipedia9
javascript9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Fuzzapi/fuzzapi
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Fuzzapi is a tool used for REST API pentesting and uses API_Fuzzer gem
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 15 PRs, 20 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Lalith primarily focused on building the core functionality of the API fuzzing tool. They implemented the initial version of the API fuzzer, including the form for user input (URL, method, parameters, headers), routing, and controller logic to handle scan requests. The user also integrated the API_Fuzzer gem to perform vulnerability scans and created database models to store scan results and vulnerability data. Additionally, the user implemented a UI for the vulnerability results.
apisecurity-toolssecurityapi-fuzzerfuzzer
publiclab/plots2
Mar 2016 - Mar 2017
a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! :balloon:
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 PRs, 95 comments, 3 issues in 1 year
Contributions summary:Lalith contributed to various aspects of the Rails-based platform, including error handling, tag management, and wiki page improvements. They focused on fixing XSS vulnerabilities within comments and improving the revision view in the wiki section. Their work involved modifying views, controllers, and tests to enhance the functionality and security of the platform.
ruby-on-railsballoonexchangefirst-timersknowledge
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