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title: "Harshita Gupta - Security Development Tech Lead in Oakland | Tal"
description: "Meet Harshita Gupta, Tech Lead, Security Development based in Oakland."
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# Harshita Gupta on Tal

## Headline

Tech Lead, Security Development

## Location

Oakland

## Work experience

Security Development Tech Lead at Asana, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 3 mos, San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security at Asana, Aug 2023 \- Present · 2 yrs 11 mos, San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineer, Security Detection Infrastructure at Asana, Feb 2022 \- Aug 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos, San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineering Intern \- Security Engineering at Asana, Jun 2019 \- Sep 2019 · 4 mos, San Francisco Bay Area

Software Engineering Intern, Commercial Software Engineering at Microsoft, May 2018 \- Aug 2018 · 4 mos, Redmond, Washington

Teaching Fellow: Introduction to Computer Science at CS50, Aug 2017 \- Dec 2017 · 5 mos, Greater Boston, • Teaching weekly 2\-hour sections to 12 Harvard students who are "more comfortable" with programming • Developing curriculum and teaching lesson plans on dynamic memory allocation and pointer management in C, data structures and abstractions, time complexity, GDB, Valgrind, Python, Programming Paradigms, SQL, Javascript

Software Engineering Intern \(Microsoft Garage\) at Microsoft, Jun 2017 \- Aug 2017 · 3 mos, Greater Boston, • Added accessibility features to the Window Photos App on a team of eight interns, flighted to 250 testers • Used C\# asynchronous and event\-driven paradigms, Model\-View\-ViewModel abstraction, Universal Windows Paradigm data binding • Led design meetings with full\-time engineers, architectural overhauls, and created dependency diagrams for five developer interns

## Education

Master's Degree, Computer Science, Harvard University

Bachelor’s Degree, Joint Concentration in Social Studies and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality \(Honors\), Harvard University

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