Akshath Kothari
Senior Software Engineer at Harness
Gurugram, Haryana, India
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Top SchoolAkshath Kothari is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems and developer tooling, currently at Harness and previously a founding engineer at Levo.ai. He combines rapid learning with meticulous execution, shipping features across gRPC services, Kubernetes integrations, CI/CD automation, and multi-architecture Docker tooling. A long-time core contributor to the Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) project, he wrote major add-ons for GraphQL and OAST, improved GraphQL scanning and reporting, and helped harden one of the world’s most widely used web app scanners. His work spans low-level systems (C++ interactions with Kubernetes APIs) to cloud-native Java services, and he regularly tailors open-source security tooling to practical production needs. With an MS in Mathematics and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani, he brings analytical rigor and a multidisciplinary perspective to software problems. Colleagues know him for quietly driving reliability improvements and turning complex security tooling into dependable, user-facing features.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
apidoc10
xslt10
zap10
wpgraphql10
java10
javas10
api10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
security9
xml8
security-scan8
security-scanner8
testing8
markdown7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
zaproxy/zap-extensions
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
ZAP Add-ons
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:519 reviews, 206 commits, 313 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:The user, Akshath Kothari, primarily contributed to the project by implementing features related to inspecting and attacking GraphQL endpoints, and improving the overall performance and reliability of the project. They made specific changes to the spidering checks, and added functions to extract GraphQL parameters. They also contributed to fixing minor bugs to ensure the tool can function. Their work reflects a focus on improving the capabilities and stability of the tool by adding features.
owasp-zapsecurity-toolsadd-onssecuritydast
zaproxy/zaproxy
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
The ZAP by Checkmarx Core project
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:221 reviews, 100 commits, 165 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Akshath primarily contributed to the ZAP by Checkmarx Core project by enhancing its features related to report generation and API functionality. Their contributions included adding new features for alert reporting in HTML and Markdown formats, as well as improving the API for GraphQL scans. Additionally, the user fixed bugs related to file path handling and API actions. These changes focused on refining the application's reporting capabilities and API integration.
owasp-zapzap-developmentsecuritydastowasp
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