Ishank Arora
Senior Software Engineer at Rippling
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIshank Arora is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust distributed storage and security systems, currently at Rippling after senior roles in AWS and Amazon's Autonomous Security. He blends production-grade backend engineering—evident from contributions to the ownCloud Infinite Scale Stack—with a deep research background in statistical machine learning and Bayesian optimization from stints at CERN and the National University of Singapore. His work spans designing interoperable storage drivers, revamping token-based RBAC, and optimizing log-structured stores for low-latency I/O, demonstrating both systems-level rigor and performance focus. Comfortable in large-scale cloud environments, he has repeatedly delivered cross-node data transfer, metadata propagation, and authentication integrations that bridge heterogeneous storage backends. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who brings research-grade ideas into production systems, and an underappreciated strength is his track record of improving core storage performance by combining algorithmic insight with low-level optimizations.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Class XII Boards, Class XII Boards at Delhi Public School RohiniIntegrated Dual Degree (B.Tech. + M.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Integrated Dual Degree (B.Tech. + M.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
Github Skills (9)
authentication10
rest-api10
user-authentication10
go10
ocs10
configuration-management9
ldap8
oid8
redis8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
owncloud/ocis
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022
:atom_symbol: ownCloud Infinite Scale Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 46 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ishank primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the ownCloud Infinite Scale Stack (ocis) project. Their work included separating user and authentication providers and adding configuration options for a REST-based user driver, which involves setting up Redis and API endpoints. They also made changes to incorporate OIDC claims, and modify the storage gateway to map home directories to different storage providers. The commits involve the configuration of various storage and authentication components.
owncloudscalerevaatominfinite
ishank011/OpenDataAPI
Feb 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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