Srivathsan Gnanasekaran
Application Security Engineer
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSrivathsan Gnanasekaran is an application security engineer with 11 years of experience blending hands-on secure software development, research, and privacy expertise across academia and industry. He has built and secured enterprise Java and C++ microservices, REST APIs, and front-end systems while delivering HPC GPU-accelerated R&D in C/CUDA and automating CI/CD pipelines. His research uncovered OAuth 2.0 and LLM privacy risks across major apps and produced practical tooling—an open-source Chrome extension and fast Rust-based OAuth scanners—to harden real-world deployments. Well-versed in identity technologies (OAuth2, OIDC, Microsoft Entra ID), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), and regulatory frameworks (GDPR, PIPEDA), he combines usability-focused security research with production engineering. Based in Ottawa with a PhD background, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and practitioner mindset, including familiarity with AI privacy techniques like federated learning and differential privacy.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (direct entry), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (direct entry), Computer Science at Carleton UniversityBachelor of Science (Hons), Physics and Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science (Hons), Physics and Astrophysics at University of Toronto
English, Tamil, SaurashtraGithub contributions (5)
choruslab/SSOPrivateEye
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 issue in 2 months
morkonda/rebound
Aug 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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