Nikhil Rajesh
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Harness
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Rajesh is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience building and hardening cloud-native systems, currently at Harness in Toronto. He has a strong SRE background from Traceable AI, where he progressed from intern to engineer and handled relocations and employer-of-record transitions, demonstrating adaptability in fast-moving environments. Academically grounded with a top-ranked Computer Science degree from NIT Calicut, he pairs rigorous technical foundations with a practical focus on production reliability and automation. An active open-source contributor, he has refactored backend code and responsibly introduced test vulnerabilities in OWASP/crAPI to improve security tooling and triage workflows. Driven by continuous learning, Nikhil is focused on becoming an effective software developer who delivers products that make a positive societal impact.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, 9.8, High School Diploma, 9.8 at Blooming Buds Bethania, VellithiruthyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 8.97, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 8.97 at National Institute of Technology Calicut95.4%, 95.4% at Devamatha CMI Public School
Github Skills (7)
javas10
api-security10
api10
java10
spring-boot10
owasp9
sql7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
OWASP/crAPI
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
completely ridiculous API (crAPI)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 39 commits, 20 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil's commits primarily focused on refactoring the codebase to remove all mentions of a deprecated dependency ("Traceable"). They systematically removed these references across multiple services, configuration files, and documentation. Furthermore, the user made enhancements including a login bug fix and added a SQL injection vulnerability for testing purposes.
rest-apiapinodejsowaspapisecurity
nikhil-rajesh/ph4t3.github.io
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 53 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
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