Saad Rana
Senior Security Engineer at Amazon
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaad Rana is a Senior Security Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building data and infrastructure security for high-throughput, production-scale systems across IoT, live video streaming, payments, gaming, and machine learning infrastructure. He specializes in security operations and data lake engineering—designing threat detection and response pipelines using Apache Spark, S3, Redshift, Parquet and Lucene—and has contributed to Open Distro for Elasticsearch/OpenSearch. A Kubernetes enthusiast and open-source contributor, he builds controllers, operators and secure cluster configurations, and has worked on Vault operator integrations. Saad has taught observability workshops at AWS re:Invent and holds an AWS Security certification alongside an MS in Cybersecurity from Georgia Tech. Colleagues rely on him to bridge deep platform internals with pragmatic security automation for web-scale services.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computing Security, Bachelor of Science - BS Computing Security at Rochester Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity at Georgia Institute of TechnologyGCE O/A Levels Pre-Engineering, GCE O/A Levels Pre-Engineering at Beaconhouse
Github Skills (17)
charts10
kubernetes9
docker9
helm9
elasticsearch-client9
k8s9
distro8
java7
elasticsearch6
operator6
restful6
vault6
security6
search-engine6
analytics5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apsunke/ant332_labguide
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:44 PRs, 43 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
saadrana219/vault-operator
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Run and manage Vault on Kubernetes simply and securely
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
kubernetesvaultsecurely
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