Sasidhar Palaka
Sr Principal Software Dev Engineer (Security Platforms)
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolSasidhar Palaka is a Sr. Principal Software Development Engineer specializing in security platforms with over 9 years of professional experience and a long tenure at Yahoo where he progressed from technical service engineering to senior principal staff. He focuses on back-end systems for service identity, certificate validation, and access control, contributing to the open-source Athenz project to enhance service identity management and microsegmentation APIs. Based in Los Angeles, he combines deep operational knowledge with pragmatic engineering—improving CLI tooling, validation logic, and runtime authorization components that power dynamic infrastructures. Known for quietly improving developer experience and reliability in large-scale security systems, he brings a practical, detail-oriented approach to securing services at scale.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Warangal
Telugu, Hindi
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Github Skills (10)
javas10
certificate10
api10
cert10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
java10
go9
authorizations8
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AthenZ/athenz
Aug 2017 - Sep 2022
Open source platform for X.509 certificate based service authentication and fine grained access control in dynamic infrastructures. Athenz supports provisioning and configuration (centralized authorization) use cases as well as serving/runtime (decentralized authorization) use cases.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 31 commits, 40 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sasidhar contributed to the Athenz platform by implementing and modifying backend functionality related to service identity management. Their work includes allowing the creation of service identities without public keys, adding descriptions to service identity objects, and sending descriptions in getServiceIdentity responses. They also updated the command-line interface to accommodate adding services without specifying public keys and enhanced the Microsegmentation Daemon API. Further contributions involve improving the validation processes related to certificates and hostnames.
casesruntimefine-grained-access-controldecentralizedathenz
psasidhar/pam-ysshca
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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