# Saroja Erabelli

> Cryptography PhD Student at NYU Courant

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/saroja

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Duality Technologies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
- Added features and maintained OpenFHE, an open-source C++ fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) library.
- Optimized and implemented privacy-preserving machine learning models in C++ using FHE.

### Software Engineer @ Qrypt
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
Implemented post-quantum cryptographic primitives and tools in C/C++:
- Double Ratchet for secure end-to-end messaging using ECDH, FrodoKEM, and Crystals-Kyber
- Doubly Affine Extractors for random number generation

### Software Engineering Intern @ Coinbase
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Penetration tested internal code deployment tool written in Ruby on Rails backend and React frontend
- Implemented a tool for detecting 51% attacks on the blockchain using Ruby on Rails and alerting engineers through Slack. The tool successfully detected an attack of $1.1M post-internship.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Envieta LLC
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Columbia, Maryland, United States
- Implemented a post-quantum Private Information Retrieval scheme in Python using the BFV fully homomorphic encryption scheme.
- Improved throughput of response generation from database by 15x by adding support for SIMD operations.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Kirkland, Washington, United States

### Research Intern @ United States Department of Defense
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Fort Meade, Maryland, United States


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### High School
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/saroja-erabelli

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Last updated: 2026-03-20