Saranga Komanduri
Principal Engineer at 8th Light
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaranga Komanduri is a Principal Engineer and security-focused software leader with a PhD from Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab whose research changed NIST password guidance and earned an IEEE Test of Time award. Over 11+ years he has built secure, compliant cloud infrastructure and production ML/healthcare systems, led product security and multiple engineering teams, and currently teaches usable privacy and security at UC Berkeley. He combines deep research credentials and industry impact—multiple best paper awards and the CMU Allen Newell Award—with hands-on delivery of HIPAA/HITRUST-compliant AWS platforms and CI/CD for FDA‑approved healthcare AI. Based in Denver, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and pragmatic engineering, able to translate security research into deployable, auditable systems. An early career background in large-scale hardware and network support gives him practical operational instincts that inform his architecture and incident readiness.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Bowling Green State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science - Societal Computing, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science - Societal Computing at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (71)
emacs9
identity9
authentication9
spacemacs9
vim9
omniauth9
oauth9
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authorization9
oauth2-provider9
api8
shiny8
emacs-lsp8
melpa8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
civisanalytics/civis-services-shiny
Nov 2017 - Apr 2021
Civis Services Docker Image for R Shiny
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 4 PRs in 3 years 5 months
docker-imageshinydockerrstatsshiny-r
skomanduri/dotfiles
Apr 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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