# About Me

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I’m Chaitanya Rahalkar, a Software Security Engineer at Block Inc. (formerly Square Inc.), specializing in cloud-native security and application security.

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Software Security Engineer - Block Inc. (f.k.a. Square Inc.)
Developing enterprise-scale cloud-native security pipelines and detection systems.

Previous Roles:

  • Security Engineering roles at Meta (Facebook) and Praetorian
  • Contributed to fuzzing infrastructure, security audits, and threat modeling

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  • Master of Science in Cybersecurity - Georgia Institute of Technology (2022)
  • Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering - Savitribai Phule Pune University (2020)

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  • Cloud-Native Security
  • Application Security
  • Security Engineering
  • Reverse Engineering
  • System Programming
  • Threat Modeling

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My research work spans across various domains including:

  • Privacy-preserving techniques in cryptocurrencies
  • Content moderation in encrypted systems
  • Secure system design
  • Content-addressed filesystems

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