Summary
Palak Sharma is a Principal Software Engineer based in Rochester, NY with roughly a decade of experience designing and scaling secure, federated identity and IAM platforms for enterprise customers. She has progressed from hands-on backend and full-stack development to technical leadership roles at VMware, OneTrust, and Manhattan Associates, specializing in OAuth/OIDC, SSO, and hybrid cloud identity solutions. Her background blends academic research in mining open-source projects and machine-learning-driven code analysis with practical product delivery, informing a data-driven approach to architecture and security. Palak pairs a strong foundation in distributed systems and microservices with mentorship and cross-team collaboration, having led university partnerships and onboarding programs. She is pursuing advanced cybersecurity training at Stanford, underscoring a continued focus on reducing risk while enabling scalable authentication and authorization.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
Cybersecurity Graduate Program Cyber Security, Cybersecurity Graduate Program Cyber Security at Stanford University