Vishal Parikh
Senior Director, Eng at GEICO
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVishal Parikh is a senior engineering leader with 11+ years focused on security engineering and a track record of driving large-scale security programs at Meta, Robinhood, Thomson Reuters, Capital One, and GEICO. He designs and delivers cloud-native security automation and orchestration—holding a patent for a product that operationalizes security at scale—and has built novel solutions for secure human-to-human authentication and tokenization of sensitive data in public cloud. Comfortable translating technical strategy into measurable risk reduction and cost savings, he routinely partners with C-suite stakeholders to align security roadmaps with business priorities. A hands-on builder and manager, he creates and leads high-performing teams that ship production-grade security software. Based in Menlo Park, he blends enterprise experience with startup-style product invention, often turning research concepts into deployable controls. His background spans both deep engineering roles and executive leadership, enabling pragmatic, auditable improvements to security posture.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at University of Illinois Springfield
English
Github Skills (24)
decrypt7
checksum5
hmac5
encrypt4
rsa4
aes4
crypto3
cryptography3
encryption3
architecture3
golang3
aws-serverless2
serverless2
aws2
vue2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vdparikh/crypto
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 day
golangcryptographyrsaaescrypto
vdparikh/XBMCee.iOS
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push, 7 comments in 2 months
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