Shashank Reddy Mekala

Shashank Reddy Mekala is an accomplished software engineer with extensive experience in security engineering and software development. Currently serving as a Staff Software Engineer in Security Engineering at Box since April 2020, Shashank has previously held senior engineering roles at Trustwave from July 2015 to March 2020, and worked as an Associate Consultant at Capgemini US as well as a Software Developer at Discover Financial Services. Early career experience includes a Graduate Research Assistant position at ESI US R&D, where Shashank contributed to significant projects such as converting legacy Python code to Java and developing a statistical SVN tool. Shashank began the professional journey as a Software Engineering Intern at Nitte Meenakshi Institute Of Technology, designing an educational online tool. Shashank holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from The University of Alabama in Huntsville and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University.