Pratik Lotia
Senior Security Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPratik Lotia is a Senior Security Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud and container security, DDoS and botnet mitigation, and automation-driven defenses. Based in New York, he combines hands-on network and application security expertise—IDS/IPS, packet and flow analysis, secure code review—with practical tooling experience in Snort, NetFlow, Splunk and Arbor Peakflow. A CU-Boulder master's graduate and Stanford-trained technologist, he brings entrepreneurial grit from founding VenTech and a history of research recognized by the Government of India and Lockheed Martin. He serves on industry boards (Cloud Security Alliance, GIAC advisory roles) and contributes to CNCF projects, reflecting both community leadership and technical stewardship. On GitHub he’s contributed front-end and UX improvements to the well-known Visdom visualization tool, showing attention to usability as well as backend security. He follows a Kaizen mindset, favoring small iterative automations to solve large security problems.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering at Atharva College of EngineeingSecondary School Certificate (SSC), Secondary School Certificate (SSC) at St. Anne's High School, Malad, MumbaiMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at University of Colorado BoulderTechnology and Commercialization, Technology and Commercialization at Stanford University
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
react10
d3js9
plotly9
html9
threejs9
css9
eslint8
prettify8
pretier8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fossasia/visdom
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
A flexible tool for creating, organizing, and sharing visualizations of live, rich data. Supports Torch and Numpy.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 14 PRs, 26 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Pratik primarily contributed to the front-end of the Visdom project, addressing UI issues and enhancing the user experience. Their work included fixing layout glitches, updating UI components (like the plotly link), and implementing new features, such as support for visualizing embeddings, with zoom capabilities and summary views. They also integrated linting and autoformatting tools for improved code quality.
pythonnumpysharingtorchvisualizations
pringshia/bin
Mar 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:12 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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