I'm a full-stack engineer with a backend lean, currently a Staff Software Engineer at Civilgrid and previously at Vimeo and McKinsey. I'm drawn to problems where scale runs into real-world constraints: security, compliance, and systems that can't afford to be wrong. Most of my work is distributed systems, identity and auth, and the platforms underneath them, but I ship the frontend that sits on top when a problem needs it end to end.

• 🏗️ Core Philosophy: Building architecture that is "Secure by Default" and "Resilient under Pressure."
• 🛡️ Focus: Application security, identity management, and platform migrations that ship without downtime.
• 🎓 Research: Published author in invisible digital image watermarking (Fragile Watermarking) at IEEE ICACCI.
• 🌍 Open Source: Active contributor to projects by Stripe, Apple, Wise, and the community.

Expertise: Application Security (SQLi / SSRF / IDOR defense, dependency triage) • Microservices • DDD • Event-Driven Architecture • Web Security (CSP/XSS) • E2E Testing • gRPC • OAuth 2.0 • Data Privacy Familiar: Go • PHP • Java • Python • Spring Boot • FastAPI • Azure • Kubernetes

I thrive on giving back to the ecosystem. My contributions are live in these major projects:

1. 💳 Stripe (stripe-cli): Fixed a stdio teardown race to prevent silent output truncation during plugin execution.
2. 💳 Stripe (link-cli): Hardened the React-Ink approval polling flow to ensure clean exits on terminal states for spend requests.
3. 🍎 Apple: Fixed a critical XSS vulnerability in the password-manager-resources to improve web security standards.
4. 🏦 Wise: Fixed a data-loss bug in pipelinewise related to MySQL binlog filename comparisons.
5. 📝 Reactive Resume: Resolved a UI crash in the profile picture editor for one of the most popular open-source resume builders.

1. 🍔 Food Delivery Service: Developer Portal - A production-ready REST API featuring a comprehensive developer portal, end-to-end RBAC authentication, and extensive specs-driven agentic development.
2. ⚙️ Mini Workflow Engine: GitHub Repo - A full-stack workflow automation engine (similar to Zapier) built to handle multi-step workflows triggered via HTTP with robust execution and automatic retries.
3. 🌿 SK Nursery & Garden Works: Live Site · GitHub Repo - A zero-cost, SEO-optimized showcase site for a Bengaluru landscaping business, featuring a build-time Sharp pipeline that cuts image payloads by ~85%, dynamic JSON-LD structured data, and a WhatsApp lead funnel.