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Chaitanya Rahalkar

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Chaitanya Rahalkar is a software security engineer, writer, and speaker. He works on application and cloud security and has authored practical tutorials on cybersecurity and AI for freeCodeCamp. He has presented talks on topics such as agentic AI, zero trust, and secure software delivery at public events and has written about the enterprise impact of agentic AI.[lower-alpha 1]

Career

Rahalkar is a software security engineer at Block, Inc. (formerly Square)."Chaitanya Rahalkar – Meet the Mentor". MentorCruise. January 13, 2025. Retrieved October 2, 2025. His public profiles and personal website describe prior roles in security engineering and research."Chaitanya Rahalkar". rahalkar.dev. Retrieved October 2, 2025.

Chaitanya has been invited to speak on secure software delivery and agentic workflows; for example, GitNation lists his talk, "Agentic CI/CD: from Pull Request to Production without the Paper Cuts.""Agentic CI/CD: from Pull Request to Production without the Paper Cuts". GitNation. Retrieved October 2, 2025. In 2025, GitGuardian’s report from St. Louis TechWeek highlighted his session on the linguistic foundations of large language models.McDaniel, Dwayne (April 9, 2025). "AI Is the New Trust Boundary: STL TechWeek Reveals the Risk Shift". GitGuardian Blog. Retrieved October 2, 2025.

Writing and tutorials

Chaitanya writes hands-on security and AI content aimed at developers and practitioners. His freeCodeCamp guides include building a real-time intrusion detection system in Python,Rahalkar, Chaitanya (January 21, 2025). "How to Build a Real-Time Intrusion Detection System with Python and Open-Source Libraries". freeCodeCamp. Retrieved October 2, 2025. a honeypot,Rahalkar, Chaitanya (December 19, 2024). "How to Build a Honeypot in Python: A Practical Guide to Security Deception". freeCodeCamp. Retrieved October 2, 2025. a basic web application security scanner,Rahalkar, Chaitanya (December 12, 2024). "Building a Simple Web Application Security Scanner with Python: A Beginner's Guide". freeCodeCamp. Retrieved October 2, 2025. and a network traffic dashboard.Rahalkar, Chaitanya (January 3, 2025). "How to Build a Real-time Network Traffic Dashboard with Python and Streamlit". freeCodeCamp. Retrieved October 2, 2025. He has also written about creating a local AI setup,Rahalkar, Chaitanya (May 6, 2025). "How to Build a Local AI". freeCodeCamp. Retrieved October 2, 2025. and contributed an article on zero trust architecture for MentorCruise."Zero Trust Architecture: Building Modern Security Systems for the Cloud-Native Era". MentorCruise. January 6, 2025. Retrieved October 2, 2025.

Outside of tutorials, he has published commentary on agentic AI and enterprise operations for the IBM Community.Rahalkar, Chaitanya (July 23, 2025). "The Rise of Agentic AI: How Autonomous Intelligence is Reshaping Enterprise Operations in 2025". IBM Community. Retrieved October 2, 2025..

Research and publications

Chaitanya's research is in areas including cryptography, fuzzing, and content moderation for end-to-end encrypted systems."Chaitanya Rahalkar — Google Scholar". Google Scholar. Retrieved October 2, 2025. His papers and preprints include studies of large-scale incident analysis and surveys related to moderation in encrypted messaging.Rahalkar, Chaitanya (2023). "A Diamond Model Analysis on Twitter's Biggest Hack". arXiv:2306.15878 [cs.CR]. "SoK: Content Moderation Schemes in End-to-End Encrypted Systems". arXiv. Retrieved October 2, 2025.

Speaking and community

In addition to conference talks, Chaitanya has shared sessions on zero trust and AI-driven social engineering via public speaker profiles and event listings."Chaitanya Rahalkar — Speaker Profile". Sessionize. Retrieved October 2, 2025. "Weaving Zero-Trust into Web DNA — Session". Sessionize. Retrieved October 2, 2025. He also mentors early-career professionals through MentorCruise."Chaitanya Rahalkar — Mentor". MentorCruise. February 19, 2025. Retrieved October 2, 2025.

Selected works

Tutorials
Commentary

See also

External links

Notes

  1. This article summarizes coverage from public interviews, event listings, and technical tutorials cited in the references.

References


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