Sanchit Sahay
Developer, Secure Systems Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSanchit Sahay is a systems-focused software engineer and NYU Tandon MS candidate with eight years of experience building secure, production-quality software from full-stack applications to low-level runtime and attestation infrastructure. Currently a developer in NYU’s Secure Systems Lab, he has implemented eBPF-based network attestations, an in-memory filesystem inside Intel SGX enclaves, and designed syscall ABIs for a WebAssembly microvisor—demonstrating a rare blend of security, systems programming, and trusted execution work. Previously an SDET/engineer at Commvault and a full-stack developer at LegalAI, he brings strong test automation instincts and production engineering discipline to complex projects. An active contributor to the Rust ecosystem’s cargo testing infrastructure, he has improved test coverage and failure modes for one of the language’s flagship tools. Based in New York, he combines academic research with hands-on engineering to deliver auditable, memory-safe systems for software provenance and secure computation.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of EngineeringBachelor of Technology Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology Information Technology at Manipal Institute of TechnologyDelhi Public School, Bhilai
Github Skills (5)
rust10
cargo10
package-management10
test-automation10
testing10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/cargo
Aug 2023 - Sep 2024
The Rust package manager
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 5 PRs, 38 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Sanchit primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure of the `cargo` package manager. Their contributions included adding new tests and modifying existing ones to cover different scenarios, such as testing the `--nocapture` flag and validating the publishing of existing versions. They also addressed failures related to feature additions from Git repositories. Their work ensured the reliability and correctness of the package manager.
rustpackage-managercargo
stupendoussuperpowers/stupendoussuperpowers
Sep 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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