Nitin Ravindran
Engineering Lead, Platform Security And Compliance
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNitin Ravindran is an engineering leader with 10+ years of experience specializing in platform security and compliance, currently leading those efforts at VMware in Old Toronto. He builds pragmatic compliance programs that prioritize security outcomes over checkbox audits while maintaining developer velocity. A hands-on former backend and DevOps engineer, he contributed SSH and gateway improvements to the widely used Cloud Foundry BOSH project, reflecting deep familiarity with large-scale deployment tooling. His background spans financial and enterprise systems consulting through roles at Pivotal and major services firms, giving him a strong foundation in risk, regulatory, and infrastructure concerns. Nitin pairs an engineering education and advanced computing diploma with a talent for refactoring and maintainability, often turning legacy constraints into scalable, auditable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing, Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing at C-DACLoyola Jr CollegeSt. Joseph's, PuneSavitribai Phule Pune University
Github Skills (12)
bosh10
cloud-foundry10
devops10
ssh10
ruby10
automations9
automation9
go9
bash9
infrastructure9
testing8
cicd8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/bosh
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Back-end Developer
DevOps Engineer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 11 days
Contributions summary:Nitin contributed to the BOSH project by implementing improvements to the SSH functionality, including options for gateway configuration and passwordless sudo access. They modified the CLI to handle gateway settings and made changes to the director and stemcell to support the new SSH features. The user also worked on refactoring code to avoid using a specific flag, suggesting involvement in improving the codebase's maintainability.
cloud-foundry
xtreme-nitin-ravindran/dod-compliance-and-automation
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
Security hardening content for VMware solutions to US Department of Defense standards
Contributions:55 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
department-of-defensesecuritystandardsdepartmentcompliance
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