Shivam Rawat
Software Engineer at Akto.io
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShivam Rawat is a software engineer based in Palo Alto with three years of professional engineering experience and a background that spans civil engineering, project management, and full-stack and ML education. Currently at Akto.io, he contributes to API security tooling—enhancing HAR file processing, GraphQL parsing, and gRPC/JSON flows—reflecting a strong backend and API-focused skill set. Earlier roles at CleverTap and diverse engineering foundations give him practical experience in delivering production systems and cross-disciplinary problem solving. He is comfortable navigating both legacy code refactors and security-focused feature work, and his track record shows an appetite for contributing to impactful open-source projects in the API security space.
3 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampNanoDegree, Machine Learning Engineer, NanoDegree, Machine Learning Engineer at UdacityBachelor's degree, Civil Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering at IIT Kharagpur
Hindi, English
Github Skills (17)
json10
wpgraphql10
java10
javas10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
api-security10
grpc10
api-testing10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
apim9
api9
rest-api9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
akto-api-security/akto
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Proactive, Open source API security → API discovery, API Security Posture, Testing in CI/CD, Test Library with 1000+ Tests, Add custom tests, Sensitive data exposure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 135 commits, 165 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Shivam contributed to the API security project by modifying Java code related to API testing and data handling. They refactored methods, updated code related to HAR file processing, and integrated GraphQL parsing to enhance API request processing. They also worked on handling both REST and GraphQL API flows and made changes to the gRPC and JSON processing of API requests.
api-discoveryapi-securityapi-security-postureapi-security-testingapi-testing
shivam-rawat-akto/run-scan
Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
Akto CI/CD Github Action
Contributions:15 releases, 20 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 months
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