Summary
Naman Gupta is a Director of Community Outreach and Training and a PhD student in Computer Science at UW–Madison with 11 years of experience at the intersection of security, HCI, and social justice. He blends technical expertise in DevSecOps, SRE, and secure systems engineering from industry roles at Microsoft, Grab, and Directi with research focused on digital safety, gender-based violence, and trauma-informed design. At Madison Tech Clinic he coordinates outreach and technical support for survivors, working closely with rural and Indigenous partners to reclaim agency, privacy, and anonymity from tech platforms. His background includes building secure CI/CD pipelines, container and TEE security, and privacy-preserving tooling, giving him rare practical insight into both large-scale infrastructure and survivor-centered tech interventions. Known for cross-disciplinary collaboration across psychology, gender studies, and nursing, he translates sociocultural nuance into actionable technical protections. He combines rigorous systems engineering with a decolonial, feminist lens to make safety and resilience measurable and operational.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
Hindi, English