Osama Khalid
Staff Product Security Engineer at Spare
Canada
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Top SchoolOsama Khalid is a Staff Product Security Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, user-focused products from idea to shipment, currently based in Canada. He blends deep application and product security expertise with hands-on engineering—having co-founded multiple startups and led core engineering at Ronin Technologies. At Careem he progressed through senior to lead/security manager roles, demonstrating an ability to scale security processes in fast-moving product environments. Osama contributes to open-source projects like an encrypted Core Data SQLite store, showing practical knowledge of data encryption, SQLCipher integration, and complex relationship modeling. He pairs technical depth with customer and business sensibilities—comfortable with client acquisition, marketing, and shaping product strategy. Known for tackling hard problems, he favors solutions that improve real people’s lives while maintaining rigorous security standards.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English, Urdu
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Github Skills (7)
sqlcipher10
objective-c10
coredata10
sqlite10
database-design9
ios9
fractions6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
project-imas/encrypted-core-data
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
v2.0 - iOS Core Data encrypted SQLite store using SQLCipher
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Osama primarily focused on enhancing the `encrypted-core-data` repository by adding features and addressing bugs within the Core Data encrypted SQLite store. Their work included implementing support for ordered many-to-many relationships, one-to-many relationships, and resolving a crash related to same-entity relationships. They also made improvements related to data ordering within relationships, demonstrating a deep understanding of the underlying data structures and SQLCipher integration.
objective-cencrypted-datakeychaincore-datasql-database
good-tools/jdserialize
Jan 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 10 months
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