Rohan Sharma
Security Engineer at Figma
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRohan Sharma is a security-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience building and hardening large-scale systems across Dropbox, Persona, and now Figma in New York. He blends applied research from his M.S. in Computer Science with practical industry experience, moving from internships at Facebook and Palantir to multi-year security roles at major product companies. Rohan specializes in threat modeling, secure engineering practices, and operationalizing security controls for consumer and developer platforms. He has a track record of making security usable for product teams, turning complex risk into pragmatic, auditable solutions. Colleagues describe him as a practitioner who pairs deep technical fluency with clear communication across engineering and product. Beyond the obvious, his path from compiler and programming-languages teaching to security suggests a strong foundation in language-level reasoning that informs his approach to secure system design.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignGithub contributions (4)
rs05a/predictimdb
May 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 3 months
rohan5a/bucklescripting
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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