Summary
Prashant Rajput is a Senior Software Security Engineer with 9 years of experience bridging academic research and industry security practice, currently focused on platform security at Qualcomm in San Diego. He earned a PhD from NYU studying the security of embedded and industrial control systems and has applied that expertise across roles at Meta, Facebook, and InterSystems. His background includes hands-on malware analysis, product security program work, and developer support—giving him a rare combination of deep systems research and customer-facing problem solving. Comfortable working from low-level microarchitecture threats to operational security programs, he brings a research-led approach to practical, deployable defenses.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at New York University
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
University of California, Los Angeles