Mandar Darwatkar
Staff Software Engineer at Upwind Security
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMandar Darwatkar is a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, production-grade systems and driving product architecture across startups and enterprise teams. He has delivered impactful features from SAP to StackRox/Red Hat and now Upwind Security, blending hands-on coding in Go, Java, and JavaScript with container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes. Known for a focus on simplicity and attention to detail, he has led cross-functional efforts that improved observability, reliability, and team velocity. His background spans research, data-driven feature work (including text-classification tooling at Oracle), and quality engineering practices that reduced manual effort through automation. Based in Mountain View but originally from Pune, he balances engineering rigor with a creative eye—documented in his travel photography—and a track record of turning architectural ideas into shipped product.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of California, RiversideBachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
commons10
static-analysis10
risk-analysis10
alerts10
security10
openshift10
kubernetes-security10
hardening10
k8s10
documentation10
charts9
yaml9
helm8
k3d5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zhijia/CS180Fall15-AppStoreAnalysis
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
stackrox/stackrox
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform performs a risk analysis of the container environment, delivers visibility and runtime alerts, and provides recommendations to proactively improve security by hardening the environment.
Contributions:1419 reviews, 700 commits, 517 PRs in 3 years 10 months
containerscheckliststackroxsecurityrisk
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