Shaheem Azmal is a Lead Research Engineer based in Bengaluru with over a decade of experience building and securing enterprise software, currently driving research and product delivery at Siemens. He is a long-term maintainer and back-end contributor to FOSSology, the widely used open-source license compliance toolkit, and has led development, hosting and community administration for OSS compliance tooling. Known for mentoring open-source enthusiasts and speaking at international events, he blends hands-on PHP/backend engineering with product and security expertise across two major applications. Colleagues rely on him to translate compliance and security requirements into practical, auditable solutions while running active community support and release cycles. A B.Tech in Electronics and Communications, he brings uncommon depth in OSS license workflows coupled with large-enterprise delivery experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit you can run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line. As a system, a database and web ui are provided to give you a compliance workflow. License, copyright and export scanners are tools used in the workflow.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:18 releases, 188 reviews, 638 commits in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Shaheem's commits indicate they focused on back-end development, specifically modifying PHP files related to the FOSSology system. They introduced changes to the `ajax-showjobs.php` file, adding functionality related to job management. Additional contributions included additions to the `ui-clearing-view_rhs.html.twig` and related files for license clearing. The work appears to align with the project's goals of software license compliance and management.
(Fork for Preparing and Testing Contributions) The FOSSology software is a system for analyzing and studying FOSS – Free and Open Source Software. Today people use FOSSology as part of their open source governance activities. Specifically to scan files for licenses and copyrights.
Contributions:68 commits, 31 PRs, 488 pushes in 7 years 8 months
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