Susam Pal
Cloud Security Engineer at Bloomberg
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSusam Pal is a Cloud Security Engineer based in London with 23 years of software and security experience, currently building cloud security at Bloomberg after leading security architecture and services at Walmart Labs. He has deep hands-on expertise across PKI, cryptography, public cloud security, and threat detection, and has shipped production features ranging from TLS/key management services to bot-detection and file-integrity monitoring. Earlier roles at Oracle, RSA, and Infosys show a track record of hardening authentication/authorization in databases, designing high-performance network-forensics indexing, and implementing PKI-based banking features. An active minimalist open-source creator, he builds compact developer tools like texme and mintotp, reflecting a preference for tiny, well-tested utilities that solve real problems. Known for blending low-level C/C++ systems work with cloud-native Go and Python services, he brings both algorithmic rigor and pragmatic engineering to large-scale security challenges.
23 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
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Github contributions (5)
susam/mintotp
Aug 2019 - Jul 2022
Minimal TOTP generator in 20 lines of Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 4 PRs, 71 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Susam primarily contributed to the development of the `mintotp` library, a minimal TOTP generator. They implemented core functionalities, including the `hotp` and `totp` functions. Key contributions include refactoring to improve compatibility, adding test cases, and extending the functionality to handle arguments for time step, digits, and digest. They also added license metadata and set the version for the release.
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susam/susam.net
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:377 commits, 1190 pushes, 38 branches in 4 years
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