Sidhesh Mhatre
Principal Security Engineer at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSidhesh Mhatre is a Principal Security Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience securing cloud platforms and building detection and response capabilities at scale. He has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Microsoft, driving product-focused security improvements and incident response practices, and previously built open-source SIEM and forensic tooling at Zenefits. His early work on Autopsy/The Sleuth Kit—contributing backend fixes, EXIF and POI handling, and image extraction modules—reflects a strong practical grounding in digital forensics that informs his approach to endpoint and cloud investigations. Comfortable both coding and operating at an architectural level, he brings hands-on engineering to threat detection, secure deployments, and automation using orchestration tools. Colleagues describe him as someone who blends rigorous academic training in information assurance with pragmatic, production-first security solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
English, Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (10)
file-processing10
javas10
computer-forensics10
java10
database9
database-api9
error-handling9
databases9
logging8
python7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sleuthkit/autopsy
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It can be used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer. You can even use it to recover photos from your camera's memory card.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 212 PRs, 31 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sidhesh primarily focused on maintaining and improving the Autopsy digital forensics platform. Their contributions include fixing logging issues, adding comments, and correcting type parameters. The user also made modifications to improve the functionality of existing modules by addressing runtime exceptions related to POI containers, implementing time zone parameters and modifying file indexing. They also updated supporting files such as an update version script, and made code changes related to the file ingest module and EXIF data handling.
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sidheshenator/autopsy
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:195 pushes, 318 branches, 20 comments in 6 months
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