Jayakrishnan Mallissery is a backend engineer with 11 years of professional experience and over 7 years shipping production-grade software across fintech, edtech, and SaaS environments. Currently building Pipeline Security features on GitLab’s DevSecOps platform, he blends deep backend and DevOps skills with strong advocacy for developer experience and test-driven CI/CD practices. He has led backend efforts at Zendesk and PAIR Finance, tackling high-impact problems like GDPR compliance, payments and large-scale analytics dashboards. Comfortable across the full software lifecycle—from customer-facing requirements to architecture decisions and mentoring teams—he also routinely initiates learning cultures that improve engineering practices. Based in Berlin, he’s drawn to technically challenging, high-scale systems where product, security and team effectiveness intersect.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at Mahatma Gandhi University
Contributions:89 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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Jayakrishnan Mallissery - Backend Engineer - Pipeline Security at GitLab