Shivani Bhardwaj
Software Engineer at OISF
Katavi Region, Tanzania, United Republic of
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RockstarShivani Bhardwaj is a software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in back-end development and security engineering. Based in Katavi Region, Tanzania, she contributes to high-impact open-source projects like Suricata, where her work on command processing, exception handling, base64 support, and transaction improvements strengthened reliability and performance of a widely used network intrusion detection system. Comfortable in both systems-level code and security-focused features, she brings a pragmatic approach to refactoring and lint-driven quality improvements. Known on GitHub as a developer who doesn't need caffeine, Shivani blends steady productivity with attention to operational robustness in security-critical environments.
10 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (25)
code-optimization10
c-programming10
linux-kernel10
device-driver10
sys10
django-urls10
embedded10
error-handling10
ids10
network-security10
rust10
intrusion-detection10
python9
system-design9
django9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OISF/suricata
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 1199 reviews, 226 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Shivani primarily focused on enhancing the Suricata network intrusion detection system by implementing and improving command processing for the suricatasc tool. This involved refactoring the processing of various commands, introducing a new exception handling for arguments, and resolving code issues identified by Pylint. Additionally, the user added support for base64, made several fixes for the handling of gaps, and improved the implementation of multiple transactions for enhanced performance. The user's work improved reliability and added new functionalities to the core components of the system.
git-repositorynsmipssecurityids
shivan1b/eve2test
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:23 commits in 2 months
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