Nishant Singh
Software Engineer at UKG
Surat, Gujarat, India
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Top SchoolNishant Singh is a cloud-native software engineer with six years of hands-on experience building secure, scalable backend and DevOps systems, currently at UKG and mentoring for Google Summer of Code. He blends kernel-level tooling (BPF) and GCP expertise to improve VM and unorchestrated container security—work that materially accelerated KubeArmor installation and real-time configuration with measurable reductions in deployment time and operational overhead. Past roles span Samsung, CNCF, and multiple startups where he delivered production-grade APIs in Go, optimized CI/CD and observability stacks, and led migrations that cut costs and improved reliability. Known for pragmatic automation, he has revamped pipelines to achieve 4–8x faster tests and implemented monitoring and policy validation that reduced enforcement errors. Based in Surat, he pairs an 8.73 GPA from IIIT Bhopal with a passion for open-source mentorship and a poetic GitHub flair: "A Universe of Atoms, An Atom In The Universe."
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, 8.73, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, 8.73 at Indian Institute of Information Technology Bhopal
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Github Skills (95)
enforcement10
prometheus-exporter10
security10
argocd10
falco10
creative-commons10
cpp10
k8s10
computer-science10
monitoring10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
helm10
jsonnet10
pipeline10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tesla59/tesla59.github.io
Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
tesla59/KubeArmor
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Runtime Security Enforcement System. Workload hardening/sandboxing and implementing least-permissive policies made easy leveraging LSMs (BPF-LSM, AppArmor).
Contributions:116 pushes, 18 branches in 10 months
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