Barun Acharya
Software Engineer at KubeArmor
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBarun Acharya is a software engineer with seven years of experience focused on cloud-native systems, runtime security, and developer tooling. He maintains and leads development for KubeArmor, a CNCF Sandbox project that enforces runtime security using BPF and LSMs, and contributes practical fixes and enforcement features to its core. At Odigos he works on eBPF-driven OpenTelemetry generation in Go and Java, bridging low-level observability with cloud-native backends. A CNCF Ambassador and frequent conference speaker, he actively mentors through programs like Google Summer of Code and LFX, helping cultivate new open-source contributors. His background includes leading core backend and 5G security efforts at Accuknox, reflecting a mix of systems-level engineering and production security. Colleagues describe him as a tinkerer who prefers digging into kernel and tooling internals to make developer-facing security and observability genuinely usable.
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 Jaypee Institute Of Information Technology
Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
container10
go10
bpf10
ebpf10
kubernetes-pods10
security10
policies9
system9
automations8
automation8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
kubearmor/KubeArmor
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Runtime Security Enforcement System. Workload hardening/sandboxing and implementing least-permissive policies made easy leveraging LSMs (BPF-LSM, AppArmor).
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:37 releases, 799 reviews, 30 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Barun primarily contributed to the KubeArmor project by implementing and refining security enforcement mechanisms using BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) and LSM (Linux Security Modules). They fixed panics in the BPF enforcer during cleanup and added path-based hooks for enforcement. The user also refactored code for socket hooks and addressed various issues in the monitoring and deployment aspects of KubeArmor, showing a good understanding of the project's security focus.
bpfcontainerskernelpolicyenforcement
daemon1024/kubearmor-client
Sep 2021 - Jun 2023
KubeArmor Client
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 84 pushes in 1 year 9 months
kubearmorkubernetes
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