Ajay Krishna
Security Software Development Engineer at Nokia
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAjay Krishna is a Security Software Development Engineer with eight years of experience building secure, cloud-native systems and tooling at Nokia, specializing in Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD automation. He has implemented authentication and encryption features across big-data and analytics platforms—adding OAuth/OpenID, SSL, and Kerberos integrations for Zeppelin, Spark, and Kafka—and contributed fixes and Helm charts to open-source Kubernetes deployments. A Stony Brook MSCS graduate and former machine learning teaching assistant, he bridges rigorous academic foundations with hands-on security engineering. Notably, his background spans low-level systems work (HDFS, ETCD, Kafka) to key management in HashiCorp Vault on K8s, reflecting uncommon depth across distributed data platforms and cloud security.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 80.40 %, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 80.40 % at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.8, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.8 at Stony Brook University
English
Github Skills (50)
data-driven10
notebook10
javascript10
spark10
nosql10
secret-management10
java-client10
java10
scala10
security10
sql10
database10
dsl9
data-analytics9
secrets9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ajaygk95/openbao
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys.
Contributions:14 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months
ajaygk95/Sustainable-Development-Goal-3
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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