Nixon Rodrigues
Team Lead at M2P Fintech
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolNixon Rodrigues is a seasoned engineering leader with 10 years of experience building and securing backend systems, currently leading a team at M2P Fintech from Mumbai. He has deep expertise in data governance and metadata platforms, demonstrated by long-standing contributions and a release-manager role for Apache Atlas and work across Apache Ranger and Knox. Nixon’s strengths lie at the intersection of backend development and security—hardening Kerberos/SSL flows, adding Knox SSO token support, preventing CSRF and leaking stack traces, and extending Ranger authorizers for fine-grained classification and relationship-based access. At Atlan he combined engineering and program management to integrate tag-based authorization and audit pipelines into Elasticsearch for Atlas. He brings practical leadership from contract work with Cloudera/Hortonworks to product teams, mentoring engineers and driving on-time delivery of secure, production-grade features. Colleagues value him for translating complex security requirements into robust, auditable implementations that scale across Hadoop ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
ssc, ssc at John xxiii high schoolPG Diploma, Software Technology, PG Diploma, Software Technology at C-DAC [NCST]BE, BE at Savitribai Phule Pune University
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Github Skills (18)
authorizations10
ssl10
kerberos10
plugin-development10
apache-ranger10
user-authentication10
authentication10
atlas10
java10
security10
javas10
authorization10
rest-api10
api-design9
api-security9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/atlas
Jul 2017 - Aug 2021
Apache Atlas - Open Metadata Management and Governance capabilities across the Hadoop platform and beyond
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:187 commits, 33 PRs, 21 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nixon primarily worked on enhancing the security aspects of the Apache Atlas project, with a focus on improving authentication and authorization mechanisms. Their contributions involved hardening tests related to Kerberos and SSL, as well as implementing features such as support for Knox SSO token-based authentication. Furthermore, the user addressed vulnerabilities and implemented measures to prevent CSRF attacks, demonstrating a strong focus on securing the API and authentication. They also made changes to prevent stack-traces in REST API error responses.
javaapacheapache-atlasatlasdocker
apache/ranger
Feb 2018 - Mar 2021
Apache Ranger - To enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform and beyond
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Nixon primarily focused on enhancing the Apache Ranger authorization plugin, specifically in the context of the Atlas component. Their work involved updating the plugin to authorize entity access based on classifications, including adding support for new authorization privileges and relationship access. These changes required modifications to the authorizer code to support resource lookups and integrate new features related to entity ownership and proxy request information. The user contributed to enhancing the security and access control capabilities of Apache Ranger within the Atlas ecosystem.
javaapacheapache-rangerrangerauthz
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