Ayas Behera is a software engineer with seven years of experience building full-stack web applications, currently at Emergent after roles at Acko and Gameskraft. He combines product-focused frontend work with backend integrations, having shipped features in commercial gaming and fintech environments and progressed rapidly from internships to senior engineering roles. Ayas is an active open-source contributor and a 2021 Google Summer of Code participant who made notable frontend improvements to the widely used OWASP Juice Shop, adding interactive "hacking instructor" tutorials and user-friendly UX touches like selectable code challenges and celebratory confetti. Comfortable across the stack, he brings an eye for usable security education and developer experience alongside pragmatic shipping cadence. Based in India and grounded in a BTech in Computer Science from IIIT Manipur, he blends hands-on coding with a track record of accelerating team impact.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Information Technology Manipur
OWASP Juice Shop: Probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:7 reviews, 69 commits, 18 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ayas primarily contributed to the frontend of the application by adding and modifying code snippets related to a "hacking instructor" feature. They implemented and refined a "cancel" button and replaced it with a cross icon for the hacking tutorials. The user also added a feature for the code snippet challenges that allows users to select lines of code, adding the ability to check if the correct lines were selected. They also added a new feature that included confetti to the application.
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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