Saurabh Kumar
Software Engineer at Canterr, Inc.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSaurabh Kumar is a software engineer with four years of professional experience building backend systems, DevOps integrations, and security tooling from Bengaluru. He has contributed significantly to open-source cloud-native security projects such as Deepfence’s SecretScanner and ThreatMapper, implementing secret-scanning features, concurrency fixes, and container/registry integrations. His background includes roles at startups and large teams (Canterr, Deepfence, Compass, Walmart Labs) where he focused on infrastructure, API work, and optimizing container runtime configurations. Comfortable across backend and DevOps responsibilities, he brings practical experience hardening CI/CD and agent-based security tooling. Notably, he has hands-on experience improving the internals of a CNAPP ecosystem, showing an ability to bridge tooling, integration, and security concerns. He holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science from NIT Durgapur and combines academic grounding with pragmatic open-source contributions.
4 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology DurgapurSt. Xavier's Durgapur
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
develop10
python10
dockers10
security10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-native10
backend10
devops10
api-design9
vulnerability-detection9
api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
deepfence/SecretScanner
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
:unlock: :unlock: Find secrets and passwords in container images and file systems :unlock: :unlock:
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:1 review, 34 commits, 19 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Saurabh contributed to the `deepfence/secretscanner` repository by implementing features for scanning container images and file systems for secrets. Their work involved modifying code for image extraction, scanning processes, and incorporating a "quiet" flag to control output. They also addressed concurrency issues and updated dependencies. Furthermore, the user made changes to integrate with registry scanning, improving functionality.
secrets-detectionsecret-keyssecrets-managementvulnerability-scannerssecurity-tools
deepfence/ThreatMapper
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Open Source Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 111 commits, 91 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Saurabh primarily contributed to the infrastructure and backend components of the project. Their commits focused on upgrading and integrating the `vessel` component, a core dependency within the cloud-native application protection platform. They addressed container runtime configurations, optimized queries, and implemented fixes related to secret scanning within the agent. They also contributed to API changes for KSPM. The user demonstrated proficiency in integrating and configuring various tools related to the project's overall goals.
cloudsecuritysecopsvulnerability-managementthreat-analysisobservability
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