Ajay Datta
Senior Director Of Product Management at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Palo Alto, 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.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Electronics Engineering at Visvesvaraya National Institute of TechnologyMBA Marketing and Finance, MBA Marketing and Finance at Indian School of Business
Hindi, English
Github Skills (38)
javascript10
spark10
nosql10
secret-management10
benchmarking10
java10
scala10
security10
go10
database10
data-center9
dsl9
cloud-computing9
data-analytics9
mock-server9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ajaygk95/openbao
Sep 2024 - Mar 2026
OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys.
Contributions:18 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 6 months
ajaygk95/Sustainable-Development-Goal-3
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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