Shreyas Sriram
Scaling security with code & intelligence.
Work Experience
Senior Security Engineer
Robinhood Canada | Toronto, Canada | November 2025 - Present
- Building end-to-end LLM-driven workflows to automate vulnerability triage and remediation, reducing manual triage load and enabling sub-linear scaling of the VM program
- Directing cross-functional infrastructure roadmaps across 4 teams to build automated security controls, reducing recurrence of systemic vulnerability classes
Security Software Engineer II
Robinhood Markets | Menlo Park, CA, USA | March 2024 - November 2025
- Architected a unified vulnerability management platform and engineered a risk-scoring framework that reprioritized 800k+ findings using EPSS, asset criticality, and reachability, achieving a 90% signal-to-noise ratio and restoring developer trust in security findings
- Scaled the VM program across 4 M&A integrations by establishing technical playbooks and standardizing high-severity triage
- Led the design and rollout of short-lived identities across 92% of the AWS fleet, coordinating with 25+ teams to eliminate long-lived credentials and reduce incident response liability by 280+ days
- Re-engineered the developer security platform, replacing legacy scripts with a high-performance engine that reduced latency by 83% and reclaimed 6,180+ monthly engineering hours
- Implemented four guardrails — intent filtering, output validation, compliance screening, and context isolation — eliminating critical injection and data exposure risks prior to GA launch and enabling safe production deployment of LLM-powered features
- Led a 3-engineer team to architect a WebAuthn-based access platform, handling 26% of all corporate access requests and reclaiming 1,150+ monthly engineering hours
- Remediated a credential leak affecting 40+ services, authoring the response playbooks and secret infrastructure policies that reduced organizational MTTR from 14 days to 2 days
Security Engineer I
Robinhood Markets | Menlo Park, CA, USA | February 2023 - February 2024
- Led the “Safety by Design” program, partnering with product teams to conduct 50+ architectural reviews in 5 months and ensuring 100% pre-production remediation of high-priority risks
Security Engineer Intern
Salesforce | San Francisco, CA, USA | May 2022 - August 2022
- Eliminated a 90% visibility gap in global security scanning by identifying and fixing a systemic algorithm flaw; drove architectural redesign through production to ensure 100% code coverage across the enterprise
Software Engineer
Mesh7 Technologies | Chennai, India | August 2020 - March 2021
- Researched cyber threat intelligence; designed and implemented microservices to integrate threat feeds for live threat monitoring
- Streamlined the real-time configuration pipeline for enhanced reliability, minimizing failures and reducing downtime
- Spearheaded and formulated strategies to achieve a 60% reduction in CI costs through Docker images and faster build times
- Hardened IAM architecture by developing highly configurable API integration and redefined workflows for better user experience
- Performed vulnerability assessments on product API and enforced strict access control policies to reduce security risks
- Established standards for simplifying and maintaining critical scripts; refactored code to support custom logging and improve readability
Software Engineer Intern
Qube Cinema Technologies Pvt Ltd | Chennai, India | May 2019 - June 2019
- Conducted manual code reviews; identified and fixed high-risk security bugs in the e-ticketing services
- Coordinated communications between the design and development teams for migrating to Android 10
Education
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
August 2021 - December 2022
MS, Security Informatics
SSN College of Engineering, India (Affiliated to Anna University)
August 2016 - September 2020
BE, Computer Science and Engineering
Certifications
Exploring Adversarial Machine Learning
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute | Feb 2025
CompTIA Security+
CompTIA | May 2020 - May 2023
Practical Ethical Hacking - The Complete Course
Udemy | April 2020
Technical Skills
Languages & Infrastructure
Golang, Python, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Bazel, gRPC
Security Engineering
Application Security, Vulnerability Management, Threat Modeling, IAM, Secure SDLC, AI/LLM Security, Security Architecture
Security Operations
Incident Response, Risk Prioritization, Penetration Testing
Publications
Building Security to Unlock Engineering Velocity
Braille Based Steganography System Using Dynamic Key Exchange