Shounak Datta
Software Engineer II at Roblox
Waterloo, Ontario, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShounak Datta is a software engineer with eight years of experience focused on secure, production-grade systems and identity-aware infrastructure. Currently at Roblox, he leads Identity-Aware Proxy and ABAC initiatives, architecting high-availability SAML SSO proxies with a 99.99% SLA and enabling zero-downtime policy updates for SSH/RDP access. He has driven zero-trust deployments, vendor evaluations over $500K, and served as primary on-call for PKI, issuing and renewing dozens of certificates to maintain service reliability. A Waterloo-trained computer engineer exploring network security at Stanford and SANS, he blends backend engineering with hands-on security operations and mentoring of new graduates. Notably, his background includes competitive design engineering—leading a first-place F1 in Schools team—reflecting a practical, results-oriented approach to complex technical challenges.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Network Security, Network Security at Stanford UniversitySANS Technology InstituteBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (31)
react-native-expo6
golang5
reanimated5
css5
electron4
windows4
amazon4
api4
cross-platform4
readline4
react4
backend4
go3
cli-application3
android3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shounakdatta/PriceTracker-API
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
The NodeJS backend for an app that handles price fetching for products on online stores such as Amazon and Walmart. Geared for consumers, this app allows users to identify when the product is actually on sale, not when the seller tells you it is.
Contributions:2 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
backend-nodejssalewalmartsellerjavascript
shounakdatta/sdatta-web
Feb 2020 - Dec 2021
Personal website of Shounak, deployed on Heroku, rendered using React Next.
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
herokureactreact-nextdeployedreactjs
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