Simar S
Senior Software Engineer at Aqua Security
Greater Calgary Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSimar S is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of systems and backend experience, currently contributing to Aqua Security’s open source security tooling including Trivy and Tracee. He brings deep expertise in test automation, DevOps integration, and robustness improvements—evident from substantial contributions to Trivy’s DB, action, and core scanner to harden release workflows, SARIF/SBOM outputs, and report generation. His background spans high-performance systems work at Cisco, Facebook, Intel and BlackBerry, with earlier kernel and firmware roles that inform his pragmatic approach to low-level and cloud-native problems. Based in Calgary, he combines hands-on coding with thoughtful refactors that improve testability and observability, and has a knack for making brittle GitHub and CI interactions resilient.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (32)
devsecops10
github-ci10
trivy10
scripting10
qemu10
testing10
linux10
security10
script10
go10
golang10
sh10
shell10
scanning10
githubaction-workflow10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
aquasecurity/trivy-action
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
Runs Trivy as GitHub action to scan your Docker container image for vulnerabilities
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:53 releases, 161 reviews, 49 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Simar primarily contributed to the automation and configuration of the Trivy action. Their work includes modifying the entrypoint script to support new features like SBOM generation and YAML configuration, enhancing the SARIF report generation, and integrating GitHub Dependency Snapshot uploads. They also focused on improving the action's functionality by updating dependencies and fixing configuration issues.
scannerscanvulnerabilitiessecuritydocker
aquasecurity/tracee
Nov 2019 - Aug 2022
Linux Runtime Security and Forensics using eBPF
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:280 reviews, 52 commits, 91 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Simar primarily contributed to the test suite of the `aquasecurity/tracee` repository, a Linux runtime security and forensics tool. Their work focused on adding test cases for core functionalities within the container tracer module, specifically related to file flags, socket address handling, and helper methods. The user's commits showcase the implementation of comprehensive unit tests, improving the overall reliability and robustness of the project. They also refactored the code, moving helper methods out of the `EventMonitor` class, improving code organization.
bpfgolangsecurity-toolssecurityruntime
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