Nishith Nand
Software Engineering Manager, Product Security at Zoox
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolNishith Nand is a software engineering manager specializing in product and information security with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable systems across startups and major tech companies. Currently leading Product Security at Zoox after heading Information Protection for Instagram at Meta, he blends hands-on engineering with leadership to protect platforms used by hundreds of millions. His background spans distributed systems, static analysis, and back-end data frameworks—from early work on packet-capture and cluster logging to integrating secure store APIs in the open-source CDAP project. Known for pragmatic refactoring and security-focused API design, he pairs deep Java and systems expertise with a track record of shipping production-grade features. Based in Palo Alto, he holds an M.S. in Computer Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and brings a research-rooted curiosity to product security challenges.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon ValleyBE, Information Science and Engineering, BE, Information Science and Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological University
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
api10
apidoc10
java10
security10
hadoop9
rest9
data-storage9
algorithm6
rake6
eclipse6
android6
emacs6
code-formatting6
binary-tree6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cdapio/cdap
May 2016 - May 2017
An open source framework for building data analytic applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:149 commits, 157 PRs, 449 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nishith primarily contributed to enhancing the CDAP framework's data-related functionalities, specifically by implementing changes to the secure store API. Their work involved modifying Java code to implement AutoClosable for scanners and iterators, and refactoring and adding new methods to improve code readability and security. This included the creation and modification of classes related to the file-based secure store, as well as the addition of REST APIs for accessing and managing the store. The user also integrated Hadoop KMS based provider and provided a delegating Privilege Manager.
integrationpythonanalyticsanalyticjava-8
Nishith/intelliJSettings
Oct 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:299 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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