Meenakshi Manikandaswamy
Software Engineer at TikTok
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolMeenakshi Manikandaswamy is a software engineer with nine years of experience blending electronics, network security, and mixed reality expertise, now contributing to TikTok’s USDS BRIC and PnS teams in Mountain View. She holds an MS in Cybersecurity from Georgia Tech and has a history of hands-on research—publishing conference papers and building embedded systems during an MIT lab stint. Her background spans product security and applied cryptography (including post-quantum TLS prototyping in Go at Lutron) as well as security-focused SDET leadership, CI/CD automation, and penetration testing at Freshworks. As a graduate teaching assistant she supported large cohorts in secure systems and information security, creating CTFs and course materials for hundreds of students. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic engineer who moves between low-level firmware, cryptographic protocol design, and web-scale security tooling with equal fluency. She combines academic rigor with production impact, often surfacing protocol-level design decisions that bridge research and deployable systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad Program EECS Major, Study Abroad Program EECS Major at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Technology Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at SRM IST Chennai
English, TamilGithub contributions (5)
MeenakshiSivapriya/MeenakshiSivapriya.github.io
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
MeenakshiSivapriya/PetsAR.US
Oct 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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