Jayaram Sreevalsan
Head Of Engineering at Sleuth Kit Labs
United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJayaram Sreevalsan is a seasoned engineering leader with two decades of experience building and scaling forensic and cybersecurity platforms, currently serving as Head of Engineering at Sleuth Kit Labs. He has driven Cyber Triage from inception to a production-grade incident response tool and oversees the widely used open-source Autopsy project, blending product vision with hands-on technical stewardship. Previously a Principal Engineer and Director at Basis Technology, he combines deep Java/JEE architecture and full lifecycle delivery with modern client-side practices and QA-driven processes. An active contributor to SleuthKit Java bindings, his work emphasizes database interaction, API design, and performance optimization—skills that directly improve forensic tooling at scale. He holds an MS in Cyber Security from Georgia Tech, and is known for balancing enterprise product delivery with nurturing open-source communities and engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Cyber Security, Master of Science - MS Cyber Security at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at Dr Mahalingam College Of Engineering and Technology
Hindi
Github Skills (12)
javas10
databases10
database-api10
api10
computer-forensics10
apidoc10
java10
database10
performance-optimization9
transaction9
transaction-manager9
transactionscope9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sleuthkit/sleuthkit
May 2019 - Jan 2023
The Sleuth Kit® (TSK) is a library and collection of command line digital forensics tools that allow you to investigate volume and file system data. The library can be incorporated into larger digital forensics tools and the command line tools can be directly used to find evidence.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 91 commits, 86 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jayaram's commits primarily focus on performance improvements and API enhancements within the SleuthKit Java bindings. These include optimizing the `addLocalFile` method and modifying the `addBlackboardAttributes` API to support transaction contexts. The user also refactored code related to blackboard artifacts, moving functionality to new classes, and updated APIs for adding attributes. These changes demonstrate a focus on database interaction and performance optimization within the digital forensics tool.
sleuthincident-responsentfscommand-line-toolsforensics
jayaramcs/sleuthkit
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
The Sleuth Kit® (TSK) is a library and collection of command line digital forensics tools that allow you to investigate volume and file system data. The library can be incorporated into larger digital forensics tools and the command line tools can be directly used to find evidence.
Contributions:29 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
command-line-toolsvolumeforensicsdigital-forensicsinvestigate
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.