Akshay Rane
Software Engineer
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Rane is a cloud-focused software engineer with over a decade of experience building secure, scalable platforms and compliance-driven solutions, currently based in Mumbai. At AWS he shipped features that tightened IAM credential flows, validated CloudFormation APIs, and advanced policy-as-code through contributions to the widely used cloudformation-guard project, improving CI/CD compliance and testability. His background spans data and BI engineering roles at Amazon Music and earlier system engineering at Persistent and Quantiphi, giving him strong cross-functional fluency between data, security, and backend systems. Known for solving high-severity incidents under pressure, he combines pragmatic engineering with a collaborative approach to enable metadata consistency and operational excellence across teams. Notably, his open-source work on cfn-guard focused on backend security, evaluation engines, and unit test improvements—efforts that directly increased reliability and user adoption.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
SSC, SSC at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel VidyalayaBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at University of MumbaiHSC Science, HSC Science at Sathaye College
English, Hindi, Marathi
Stackoverflow
413reputation
31kreached
21answers
5questions
Github Skills (20)
testing10
policies10
security10
aws-cloudformation10
lambdas10
lambda10
rust10
aws9
cicd8
terraform7
terraformer7
k8s7
cube6
olap-cube6
sql-server6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-guard
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Guard offers a policy-as-code domain-specific language (DSL) to write rules and validate JSON- and YAML-formatted data such as CloudFormation Templates, K8s configurations, and Terraform JSON plans/configurations against those rules. Take this survey to provide feedback about cfn-guard: https://amazonmr.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bpyzpfoYGGuuUl0
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:5 releases, 126 reviews, 14 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily contributed to the back-end logic and security aspects of the `cloudformation-guard` project. Their work involved enhancing the Lambda function, adding features like a verbose flag to control output, and integrating the new evaluation engine. Furthermore, the user implemented unit tests and adjusted existing test cases. This suggests a focus on improving functionality, performance, and testability of the code.
dslk8sterraformyamlpolicy-as-code
akshayrane/homebrew-core
Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
Contributions:3 PRs, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
formulaelinuxpackage-managermissingmacos
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