Priyank Chheda
Staff Engineer at Imperva
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPriyank Chheda is a Staff Engineer based in Pune with over nine years of hands-on experience building backend systems and security-focused tooling. He has progressed from consultancy and penetration-testing roles into senior engineering positions at FireEye and Imperva, where he’s designed automation, tracking systems, and a web-based IDE supporting security rule authoring and deployment. A practical open-source contributor, Priyank modernized and refactored a cross-platform Python tool for extracting saved Chrome passwords, improving maintainability and Python 3/PEP8 compliance. He combines a security-first mindset with strong backend engineering, speeding legacy test suites and operational pipelines while keeping developer ergonomics in mind. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often bridges research, QA and engineering teams to turn security insights into reliable production systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Munshi Nagar Andheri Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi
Stackoverflow
551reputation
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20answers
9questions
Github Skills (13)
sqlite10
python10
google-chrome9
macos8
windows8
cryptography7
http-header6
go6
amazon-web-services6
pprint6
jwt6
subprocess6
authorization6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
priyankchheda/chrome_password_grabber
Mar 2017 - Jan 2021
Get unencrypted 'Saved Password' from Google Chrome
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Priyank primarily focused on developing a tool to extract saved passwords from Google Chrome. Their contributions included implementing the core logic in Python for password retrieval, with specific platform adaptations for macOS and Windows. They refactored the codebase to enhance readability and maintainability, converting the code to be compliant with PEP8 standards and updating it to Python 3. The user also addressed bug fixes and updated the project's documentation.
passwordspassword-managerchromepasswordgoogle-chrome
priyankchheda/algorithms
May 2018 - Apr 2022
Data Structure Libraries and Algorithms implementation
Contributions:308 commits, 9 PRs, 255 pushes in 3 years 11 months
golangdata-structurescppdata-structurealgorithm-library
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