Sanjay Govind
DevOps Engineer at CyberCX
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolSanjay Govind is a DevOps Engineer based in Wellington with 12 years of hands-on experience blending software development, security, and systems engineering. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Software Engineering from Victoria University and has moved between roles as a developer, security analyst, and DevOps practitioner at CyberCX, plus senior desktop and web development positions at Weta Workshop and freelance clients. An active open-source contributor, he’s extended input-emulation features for the notable FreePIE project and improved low-level Android tooling in AdAway, demonstrating comfort with system-level code, device interfacing, and build tooling. He has built bespoke web systems and teaching tools—one that sandboxes student Java code for an intro CS course—showing a strong emphasis on secure, practical architectures. Currently he develops highly-configurable Arduino-based game controller software in his spare time, reflecting a persistent curiosity for hardware-software integration. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges security, automation, and developer tooling to deliver reliable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington
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Github Skills (29)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
AdAway/AdAway
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
AdAway is a free and open source ad blocker for Android.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 60 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sanjay's contributions primarily focused on improving the RootCommands library used within the AdAway project. Their work included refactoring code to remove busybox dependencies, ensuring compatibility with different Android build systems (toolbox/toybox), and adapting the codebase to work correctly on different Android versions. The changes involved modifying the Remounter and Toolbox classes, indicating a focus on root access and system-level operations. Furthermore, the user appears to have addressed build and dependency management using Gradle, which improved the build process.
ad-blockerhostsvpnadblockandroid
AndersMalmgren/FreePIE
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Programmable Input Emulator
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 5 PRs, 96 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Sanjay primarily focused on adding and modifying features related to various game controller integrations within the FreePIE project. Their work included adding support for Guitar Hero controllers, Classic Controller, and Balance Boards, along with necessary calibration routines and data structures. They modified the Wiimote plugin and related files to incorporate the new controller data and functionalities, showing a strong focus on extending the input emulation capabilities of the software. They have also updated the project files and improved the readability of the code.
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