Ashutosh Narkar
Software Engineer, Services Engineering Security at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshutosh Narkar is a software engineer with eight years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and a current focus on services engineering security at Apple. He led development of core components of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) at Styra—helping it become a CNCF graduate project with billions of downloads—and authored the Rego Playground used to draft millions of policies. Skilled in Go, distributed systems, and production integrations (Istio, Envoy, Trino), he combines hands-on engineering with open-source stewardship and technical leadership at the CNCF security TAG. His background spans IoT and microservices at Verizon Labs to building secure registries and CI/CD tooling, reflecting a pragmatic approach to secure-by-default software. Ashutosh is known for tackling complex policy and data-distribution problems and for turning integrations and tooling into widely adopted, production-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of MumbaiMaster's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversitySSC, SSC at St. Anne's High School
Github Skills (16)
testing10
opa10
http10
elasticsearchquery10
elasticsearch10
go10
aws-elasticsearch10
open-policy-agent10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
integrations9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
open-policy-agent/contrib
Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
Integrations, examples, and proof-of-concepts that are not part of OPA proper.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 8 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ashutosh primarily focused on enhancing the data filtering capabilities within the Open Policy Agent (OPA) contribution repository. Their work involved integrating OPA with Elasticsearch by implementing a data filtering example. They also contributed to improving the codebase by revendorizing OPA revisions. Furthermore, the user addressed the issue of unmapped paths in nested queries.
contribopadeclarativeopen-policy-agentintegrations
open-policy-agent/opa
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1632 reviews, 154 commits, 902 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Ashutosh primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of HTTP request built-in functions within the OPA policy engine, focusing on integration with the topdown processing framework. They were involved in adding new features by implementing new built-in functions and related test cases in Go. The work included creating functions for HTTP requests using GET, POST and DELETE methods as well as handling redirects, caching and the handling of errors.
policycompliancedogepoliciescloud-native
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