Upakar Paudel
Software Engineer II at Cohesity
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolUpakar Paudel is a Software Engineer II based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of hands-on experience delivering secure, cloud-native applications and research-driven tooling. He blends practical backend and frontend skills—Python/Django, JavaScript/React, Java—and cloud fluency with AWS serverless services, while also specializing in security testing, vulnerability assessment, and NLP-driven analysis for IoT ecosystems. At Colorado State University he automated static and dynamic security analysis for hundreds of IoT apps and developed NLP-based heuristics that improved detection efficiency and reduced analysis time significantly. He moved from research into industry roles at Veritas and Cohesity, bringing a pattern-driven, CI/CD mindset to production systems and security automation. Outside of work he’s an avid soccer player and guitarist, reflecting a collaborative, creative approach to problem solving that he channels into building pragmatic, auditable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityBachelor of Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering at Gandaki College of Engineering and Science
English, Nepali, Hindi
Stackoverflow
48reputation
719reached
3answers
1question
Github Skills (11)
design-patterns6
xml6
ooad6
android6
python6
django6
java6
data-structures5
algorithms3
ansible-collections2
tax1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
upakarp/KNN-RandomForest
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
upakarp/upakarp.github.io
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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