Sid Shankar
Senior Engineering Manager, Code Scanning at GitHub
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSid Shankar is a Senior Engineering Manager specializing in code scanning and static analysis with 11 years of experience building developer-focused security tooling at GitHub. He leads teams responsible for CodeQL-powered experiences—like multi-repository variant analysis, Security Campaigns with Copilot Autofix, and the VSCode CodeQL extension—translating complex static-analysis tech into usable workflows for security and developer teams. Previously he led platform and payments engineering teams at Prodigy and Wave and built semantically aware graphical editors at MathWorks, bringing a mix of product-minded leadership and hands-on engineering. An active contributor to the prominent github/codeql repo, he has improved language extractor requirements and clarified documentation, showing attention to both correctness and developer ergonomics. Based in Burlington, Ontario, he combines control-systems academic roots with practical experience shipping secure, scalable developer tools.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering: Systems (Control Systems), Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering: Systems (Control Systems) at University of MichiganBachelor of Engineering - BE, Instrumentation Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Instrumentation Technology at Visvesvaraya Technological University
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Github Skills (17)
typescript10
codeql10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
javascript9
documentation7
swing6
javas6
go6
jtable6
qsub6
listener6
matrix6
java6
matlab6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
github/codeql
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
CodeQL: the libraries and queries that power security researchers around the world, as well as code scanning in GitHub Advanced Security
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:37 reviews, 13 commits, 35 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sid contributed to the CodeQL repository by updating supported compiler versions for different languages like Go and Java. They clarified system requirements for JavaScript and TypeScript extraction, and updated the requirements for TypeScript specifically. Furthermore, the user addressed a typo in a deprecation notice and handled arbitrary module identifiers in JavaScript, enhancing the codebase's flexibility. These actions demonstrate a focus on maintaining and improving the code's functionality and documentation.
github-advanced-securitysecurity-toolsgithub-security-labsecurity-researcherssecurity
sidshank/sidshank.github.io
Apr 2021 - Aug 2024
Contributions:14 PRs, 59 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 4 months
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