Rakshith Gopalakrishna

Security Engineering @ SQ | UCSB \'21 | NITK \'19 | Distributed Systems, Security, and Privacy

Role
Senior Security Engineer at Block
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Rakshith Gopalakrishna

I work on securing code from vulnerabilities. Working on building SAST, SCA, and network scanning pipelines to scan and report findings to the correct stakeholders. Moving security left in the software development lifecycle.I have research experience working on applied cryptography using techniques such as multiparty computation, trusted execution environments, and homomorphic encryption. I also have experience building full-stack web applications. I am comfortable working with C, C++, Python, Golang.I am very passionate about building extremely scalable and secure systems and writing highly maintainable, clean, and elegant code.

Experience

  1. Senior Security Engineer

    Block

    Feb 2026 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

Education

  • National Institute of Technology Karnataka

    Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology

    2015 — 2019

  • UC Santa Barbara

    Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

Skills

  • C
  • Programming
  • C++
  • Django
  • Music
  • Microsoft Office
  • Java
  • Python
  • Html
  • Algorithms

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