Sagar Loke
Director Of Engineering - Cloud Security (ShiftLeft) at CrowdStrike
Milpitas, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSagar Loke is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years building high-throughput, cloud-native distributed systems and security products, currently directing Cloud Security engineering at CrowdStrike/ShiftLeft. He has designed and led streaming platforms that process millions of events per second using Istio/envoy, gRPC, Kafka, and Kubernetes, and previously managed hundreds of Cassandra and Elasticsearch clusters at Netflix. Sagar combines hands-on backend expertise—contributing to notable open-source projects like Netflix Priam and authoring Raigad—with strategic ownership of cloud, data, and security roadmaps for scalable, resilient platforms. He has a strong track record of shipping revenue-generating infrastructure (e.g., Cortex streaming pipelines) and building serverless database and operator tooling at DataStax. Known for mentoring teams and defining measurable short- and long-term technical goals, he also brings practical compliance experience (GDPR, PCI, SOC) to data management and cloud security. Outside of product delivery, he frequently speaks at industry events on distributed systems and search infrastructure best practices.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Binghamton UniversityBachelor of Engineering Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering Information Technology at University of Mumbai (PVPP College of Engineering)
Github Skills (11)
javas10
re-store10
backup10
data-serialization10
thrift10
amazon-s310
cassandra10
java10
serialization10
bytebuffer9
junit6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/Priam
Oct 2012 - Aug 2015
Co-Process for backup/recovery, Token Management, and Centralized Configuration management for Cassandra.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:112 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sagar primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the `RangeReadInputStream` class, which implements an InputStream to read explicit byte ranges of files, particularly within the context of backing up and restoring data from Amazon S3. These changes included adding logging statements for debugging, and supporting resumable downloads through the addition of the `setSize()` method and modifications to the `download()` method. The user also made changes to the test files related to the backup and restore processes.
cassandraconfiguration-managementtokentoken-managementrestore
Netflix/astyanax
Sep 2013 - Jul 2014
Cassandra Java Client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Sagar's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the Astyanax Cassandra Java Client by integrating and modifying components related to Apache Thrift and handling specific data serialization. They addressed compatibility issues by using original `TBinaryProtocol` from the Thrift library. Furthermore, the user introduced serializers to handle `ReversedType` data, expanding the data type support within the client. The changes included modifications to existing serializer implementations and test classes, indicating a focus on data handling and compatibility improvements.
cassandrajavajdbccassandra-javajava-client
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