Rakshith Gopalakrishna
Senior Software Engineer at Block
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRakshith Gopalakrishna is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in application security, building SAST, SCA, and network scanning pipelines to move security left in the SDLC. He blends hands-on systems engineering in C, C++, Python, and Go with research-grade expertise in applied cryptography—MP-C, TEEs, and homomorphic encryption—to design secure, privacy-preserving distributed systems. At Block he has driven product security and scalable detection/reporting workflows, and his background includes graduate research at UC Santa Barbara and internships at Algorand and IISc. Passionate about clean, maintainable code, he uniquely pairs practical full‑stack development experience with deep cryptography research, enabling pragmatic yet academically informed security solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Kannada, Hindi
Github Skills (50)
ieee10
algorand10
scanning10
codeql9
semmle-ql9
blockchain9
region9
security8
github-advanced-security8
golang8
ups7
chat7
react6
internet6
benchmarking6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
grakshith/p2p-chat-python
Jun 2015 - Jun 2016
P2P python chat app
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 19 pushes in 11 months
chat-appp2pchatpython
grakshith/semantic-rs
Dec 2017 - Oct 2020
Naive implementation of type checking for the rust language
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
dependent-typesrusttype-ofcheckingtype-system
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