Harish Achappa
Vice President Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarish Achappa is a seasoned technology leader and Vice President Senior Lead Software Engineer based in the New York City area, with a multi-decade career building cloud-native, high-throughput systems and automation for financial and enterprise markets. He blends hands-on development in C#, Java, Python and Go with deep DevOps expertise—automating deployments and infrastructure using Jenkins, CodePipeline, Kubernetes, Docker and configuration tools like Ansible and Puppet. At firms such as JPMorgan Chase, Refinitiv and Thomson Reuters he designed microservice architectures and alerting platforms that process high-volume market data with precision. A focused cloud engineer, he has contributed security-focused enhancements to the widely used cloud-custodian project, improving AWS WAF, CloudTrail and resource handling for governance and cost optimization. Known for pragmatic leadership, Harish pairs team coaching and release discipline with a knack for turning complex operational needs into repeatable, auditable automation. His background in messaging platforms and diverse databases (SQL, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) underpins reliable, scalable solutions for regulated environments.
4 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science and Engineering, BE Computer Science and Engineering at SJC Institute of technology
Github Skills (12)
amazon-cloudfront10
engine10
cloud-security10
aws10
cloud-computing10
api-gateway10
python10
rule-engine10
serverless9
terraform5
cicd5
terraformer5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
Role in this project:
Security Engineer & Cloud Engineer
Security Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 9 commits, 13 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Harish focused on implementing and improving security features within the cloud-custodian project, particularly around AWS services. Their contributions included the development of filters and actions related to AWS WAFv2 for various resources, such as ELBs, API Gateways, and CloudFront distributions. They also added cloudtrail support and addressed several bug fixes related to security groups and policy statements. Furthermore, the user worked on supporting fetching resources via ARNs, and enhanced S3, SQS, and SNS capabilities.
gcpquery-filterserverlesscompliancecloud-security
harishachappa/cloud-custodian
May 2022 - Oct 2023
Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
Contributions:58 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 4 months
query-filterbeancountatscompliancecloud-security
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