Shubham Palriwala
Co-Founder at Agnost AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShubham Palriwala is a founder-engineer with six years of hands-on experience building secure, high-performance backend systems and developer-focused products. As Co-Founder of Agnost AI, he’s applying his startup and security background to build self-improving agents used by Fortune 500s and high-growth startups, following a $250k EF-backed cohort stint. He was the first engineer at Formbricks where he built core infra, payments, and community that helped drive the project to 10k GitHub stars, and earlier shipped performance and eBPF/WPA3 work as the youngest engineer in Cisco’s analytics team. An active open-source contributor and security practitioner, his contributions span projects like OWASP Juice Shop and OpenMined/PySyft, and he holds Certified Ethical Hacker v11 credentials alongside GSoC and LFX mentorships. Starting businesses as a teenager and moving from ethical hacking to product engineering, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a deep empathy for developer workflows and secure system design.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
SGVP International schoolAPS InternationalBachelor of Technology, Computer Science with Specialization in Information Security, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science with Specialization in Information Security at Vellore Institute of TechnologyHillwoods School - India
Github Skills (18)
sequel10
javascript10
python10
reinstall10
application-security10
installer10
nodejs10
postinstall10
installers10
sequelizejs10
documentation10
authentication9
git9
linux9
user-authentication9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMined/PySyft
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Perform data science on data that remains in someone else's server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 71 commits, 15 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Shubham's commits primarily address installation and setup procedures for the `pysyft` project. The user fixed linux installation issues by modifying the installation documentation. Additionally, the user addressed merging conflicts and updating the documentation.
pytorchcryptographyacquiringpythonscience
juice-shop/juice-shop
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
OWASP Juice Shop: Probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:25 reviews, 93 commits, 20 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Shubham primarily contributed to the back-end of the application by updating and creating data models and functionalities, including user management, wallet features, and recycling processes. The commits focused on the data layer, demonstrating familiarity with database interactions and data structure design. Furthermore, the user made security-related changes by implementing security questions, and security answer features indicating a focus on application security.
ctfweb-applicationshop24pullrequestsapplication-security
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