Don Durai
Cofounder And CTO at The Apache Software Foundation
Fremont, California, United States
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SeniorDon Durai is a seasoned security-focused technology leader and cofounder/CTO with 11+ years building enterprise-grade data security and governance for cloud and hybrid environments. Based in Fremont, California, he co-created XA Secure (donated to the Apache Foundation as Apache Ranger) and now leads Privacera, delivering centralized authorization, discovery, and de-identification across major cloud services and data platforms. A long-time Apache committer and PMC member, he helped drive Apache Ranger’s evolution—refactoring and hardening core services such as user sync and configuration tooling—and contributed to Ambari and HAWQ security. His background blends startup founding experience with senior enterprise roles (including Oracle and Hortonworks), giving him rare expertise in productizing open-source security for large customers. Notably, his work emphasizes enforcing scalable, component-level policy enforcement and centralized audit collection across distributed systems—an approach that became industry de facto through Ranger. He pairs deep hands-on engineering with strategic product leadership, focused on turning complex compliance and privacy requirements into practical, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
java10
scripting9
back-end-development9
shell9
script9
sh9
apache8
configuration-management7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ranger
Oct 2014 - Nov 2018
Apache Ranger - To enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform and beyond
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:115 commits, 6 comments in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Don primarily focused on refactoring and renaming codebase elements, transitioning the project from Apache Argus to Apache Ranger. Their work included updating configuration files and setup scripts to reflect the name change. The user also contributed to refactoring code related to user sync service.
javaapacheapache-rangerrangerauthz
dbosco/kafka_tutorials
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:6 commits in 1 day
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