Ramakant Sharma
Software Engineer at AccuKnox
India
Summary
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Top SchoolRamakant Sharma is a software engineer with five years of experience specializing in backend and security engineering, currently working at AccuKnox after a Linux kernel internship there. He brings hands-on expertise in runtime security and hardening, contributing to the prominent open-source KubeArmor project by fixing data races, improving I/O error handling, adding mount/unmount syscalls, and strengthening RBAC-related images. A curious and fast learner with an MTech from Jawaharlal Nehru University, he thrives on exploring deep computer science concepts and applying them to production-grade systems. Ramakant combines kernel-level insight with cloud-native security practices, making him effective at closing gaps between low-level OS behavior and container runtime protections. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented and driven to improve stability and least-privilege enforcement in distributed environments.
5 years of coding experience
Master of Technology - MTech, Master of Technology - MTech at Jawaharlal Nehru University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (9)
system-calls10
kubernetes10
container10
go10
policies10
ebpf10
kubernetes-pods10
security10
bpf9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kubearmor/KubeArmor
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Runtime Security Enforcement System. Workload hardening/sandboxing and implementing least-permissive policies made easy leveraging LSMs (BPF-LSM, AppArmor).
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:10 releases, 196 reviews, 11 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ramakant's contributions focused on enhancing the KubeArmor project's runtime security capabilities. They addressed data-race conditions and implemented error handling for I/O streams, improving the stability and robustness of the core system. Further contributions include adding syscalls for mount and unmount operations and updating cluster role rules. The user also upgraded the kube-rbac-proxy container image, improving the overall security posture of KubeArmor.
bpfcontainerskernelpolicyenforcement
kubearmor/kubearmor-relay-server
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
KubeArmor Relay Server
Contributions:5 releases, 8 reviews, 14 PRs in 1 year 10 months
kubearmorrelay-serverkubernetesrelay
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