Pratyush Mishra
Distinguished Engineer at Capital One
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPratyush Mishra is a Distinguished Engineer with 7 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure and security automation at Capital One, now based in Washington, DC. He blends deep AWS expertise, DevOps and backend engineering to deliver enterprise-scale policy enforcement—highlighted by his prominent contributions to the widely used open-source project Cloud Custodian (one of its top contributors). Pratyush has led teams to implement resource controls, tagging, and flow-logs automation, and has a track record of improving cloud security posture through practical, auditable controls. A motivated learner and mentor, he advances both internal engineering practices and public community tooling, pairing rigorous implementation with active community engagement.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at New York UniversityBachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Manipal Institute of TechnologyICSE Computer Science, ICSE Computer Science at Mount Assisi School, Bhagalpur
English, Hindi
Github Skills (10)
engine10
aws10
cloud-computing10
devops10
python10
rule-engine10
yaml9
cicd8
terraform7
terraformer7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:182 reviews, 68 commits, 134 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pratyush primarily contributed to the `cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian` repository by implementing and testing new features related to AWS services, particularly VPC flow logs and message brokers. They added support for setting flow logs destinations to S3, including configuring relevant permissions and aggregation intervals. Further contributions include creating new actions for AWS MQ message brokers, such as tagging, removing tags, and marking for deletion. Additionally, the user worked on error handling, tag management, and the introduction of new filters and actions, enhancing the functionality and automation capabilities within the cloud infrastructure management tool.
gcpquery-filterserverlesscompliancecloud-security
nation-lucas/cloud-custodian
Apr 2023 - Oct 2023
Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 months
query-filterinfrastructure-managementatscloud-securityaws
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