# Bidan Sinha > SDE V - ID.me Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/bidan Visionary Software Architect with 18 years of experience in Cybersecurity, Identity, Authentication, Full-Stack Development, and Cloud-Native Security Solutions. Adept at building from scratch, scaling products, and leading high-impact teams. Proven track record of rapid prototyping and patent-backed innovation. Expertise in Endpoint Security, Anomaly Detection, and Authentication Systems. Passionate about building zero-trust security solutions and enabling password less authentication. • End-to-End Builder – Led security products from MVP to enterprise-scale deployments. • Hands-on Technologist – Full-stack expertise in Java, C++, Windows, Android, AWS • 3 Patents Filed – Innovating in ransomware impact assessment, MFA, and cryptographic key storage. ## Work Experience ### SDE V @ ID.me Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States Wallet Group , Authentication Team ### Software Architect @ Okta Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States I work on Okta Fastpass Technology in full stack capacity focusing on Device Assurance. ### Principal Engineer @ Okta Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Building Okta Fastpass https://www.okta.com/fastpass/ ### Cloud Software Architect @ McAfee Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara Cloud Architect and Specialist in designing and developing robust and salable ETL Pipelines for Security forensics using Big Data technologies. ### Software Architect @ McAfee Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara Software Architect for the Back Office team that designs and develops the ETL Pipeline infrastructure for consuming telemetry data from various McAfee Consumer endpoints. Spark, Amazon AWS Eco System, The Hadoop Eco-System, Docker Eco-System. ### Technical Specialist @ McAfee Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Santa Clara, CA Design and Develop Security solutions in mobile for multiple platforms. Planning the roadmap for products starting from the POC phase. Cross platform mobile development designing REST based Cloud APIS .NET, Java , JNI, Objective C, HTML 5, Cryptography. Drive user engagement in mobile products using data analytics. ### Technical Lead @ McAfee Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Bangalore, India Design and develop windows applications, multi threaded, interprocess communication(RPC, Pipes etc). Planning Development cycles (Sprints). Interact with peer teams across Geo. Skills Under development : 1) Serious Windows Programming (like RPC using IO Completion Ports and Pipes, Windows Filter Drivers ) 2) API development and documentation for an internal project. Architecture Software Solutions. Mentoring a talented development team. Improving Project Estimates. 3) Leading a highly motivated and capable team. 4) Anti-Malware Domain knowledge (pretty exciting stuff) ### Senior Software Development Engineer @ McAfee Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 Cross Platform Development for Windows, Mac and Linux. Familiar with open source projects like : boost, pcre, lua, curl etc. Enough knowledge to use these libraries to create any modern cross platform application. Familiar with applying design patterns. Familiar with Agile Development. Domain Knowledge: Scanning Technology for Spam and Malware. RFC-822 and RFC-2822, SMTP Protocol. Skills Under Development : Serious Windows Programming. ### Application Development Engineer @ Oracle Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 Writing Business Logic Code for JD Edwards "Human Capital Management (HCM) module". Business Logic is written in either C or NER (proprietary language). Worked on HCM Module for Employee Self Service and Benefits Enrollment. Good Experience to know about the ERP domain. Skills under Development: Maintaining HUGE legacy code base (JD Edwards was founded in 1977). Fixing defects was not so easy. ### Software Engineer (R&D) @ Quark Software Inc. Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 | Mohali, India Joined as a fresher with the profile of a Cross Platform Developer for flagship product QuarkXPress. Involved in release of 6.5 and 7.0 versions. http://www.quark.com Modules Worked On (All code in C++): XMLPro : XTension used for database publishing. Imagine mail merge fearure of MS Word expanded to create documents based on a template DTD file and content pulled from XML File. Tables: XTension used for rendering and managing Tables as a collection of Boxes on a Layout. Text Engine : brief stay in the team for 3 months. Reflow of text on a layout (to say the least) Porting to MacIntel platform from PPC Processor. QuarXPress was arguably the first non Apple software to be ported to Intel platform. Tools Used: Development on Windows: Visual Studio 2005 Development on Mac : CodeWarrior and XCode Unit Test : Silk Test Bug Tracking: Silk Radar Other Libraries : STL Port (cross platform ability) , XerCes (XML) , Xlan (XML+ XPath) and ICU Lib (unicode support) Skills Under Development: Neat Coding, Using Design Patterns(implemented Command, Listener, Composite, Singleton, Facade and Factory), Cross Platform Development, Porting issues with Big Endian and Little Endian processors, porting a legacy application to Unicode Good Company to work for as a fresher. Learnt a lot. ## Education ### Master of Computer Applications - MCA in Computer Science Tezpur University ### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science St. Edmund's College, Shillong ### High School Army Public School, Dagshai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bidan-sinha-4a549b1 - Portfolio: http://www.mcafee.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/bidan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/bidan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11