Akshay Shekhawat
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAkshay S is a Co-Founder and CTO based in San Francisco with 11 years of engineering experience building and scaling developer-focused security products. He co-founded Metlo, an open-source API security platform that inventories endpoints and blocks malicious traffic in real time, and recently co-founded Hyperbrowser. Technically hands-on, he leads backend and test automation efforts—authoring a test-data generation framework that simulates user behavior (purchases, registrations) and ties traces to the backend for realistic API security testing. Earlier experience at Uber informs his focus on production-grade systems and telemetry-driven defenses.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
python10
api-testing10
test-automation10
api9
api-doc9
javascripts5
javascript5
yaml4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
metlo-labs/metlo
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Metlo is an open-source API security platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:25 releases, 320 reviews, 417 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily worked on implementing a test data generation framework for API security testing. They developed Python scripts to create sample data for testing various API endpoints. Their work included creating multiple producers to simulate user behavior, like making purchases and registering for accounts, and configuring these producers to generate test data for different endpoints. The user also focused on tying the test data generation to the backend, making the requests with API keys and saving the traces.
api-gatewaybugbountypentestmethodologyaws
project-domino/project-domino
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:180 commits, 159 pushes, 12 comments in 2 months
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