Pradyumna Shome
Co-Founder And Founding Engineer at Playful
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolPradyumna Shome is a researcher-engineer and co-founder with a decade of experience at the intersection of security, privacy, and systems, now building product at Playful in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and has published impactful work on microarchitectural side-channels, generative-AI privacy, and web3 confidentiality—papers that earned awards and appearances at USENIX Security, ISCA, and SOUPS. Prior to grad school he shipped growth features at Meta and interned on privacy infrastructure at Facebook and Flashbots, blending production-grade engineering with deep vulnerability research. He founded Georgia Tech’s Student Security Seminar and has a track record of turning academic attacks into real-world lessons for secure systems. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable implementing cross-app mobile experiences and breaking (and fixing) subtle hardware and AI privacy threats.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignAll India Senior Secondary Certificate (High School Diploma), Science with Computer Science, All India Senior Secondary Certificate (High School Diploma), Science with Computer Science at National Public SchoolElementary School, Elementary School at Public Schools of Brookline
English, Hindi, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
system-programming10
react-bootstrap10
linux10
latex10
api10
posix10
jekyll10
reflections10
create-react-app10
react10
javascript9
python9
on-demand8
ranking8
android-app8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
PradyumnaShome/PradyumnaShome.github.io
Nov 2017 - Apr 2026
Personal website.
Contributions:1 review, 24 PRs, 222 pushes in 8 years 6 months
reactnextjs
PradyumnaShome/TextCMS
Jun 2016 - Jan 2020
Text-based CMS in Python. Runs on a JSON.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
cmspython
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