Sujith Vadakkepat
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSujith Vadakkepat is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and product development, currently based in Sunnyvale and working at Uber. He combines deep backend and security expertise—evidenced by contributions to OpenSearch security features like audit logging, RBAC, TLS, and a self-service password API—with practical AWS and Elasticsearch skills. Sujith has a track record of shipping secure, scalable services and refactoring core components (thread pool config, ES compatibility) to improve reliability at scale. His background includes a CS master’s from UC San Diego, and he brings a pragmatic focus on solving everyday problems through robust system design.
12 years of coding experience
High School, 91.42%, High School, 91.42% at St. Joseph's Boys' High SchoolUniversity of California San DiegoBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, 81.23%, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, 81.23% at PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore South CampusSchooling, Computer Science, Schooling, Computer Science at Ryan International School, Bangalore
Hindi, Malayalam, English
Github Skills (14)
security10
it-security10
javas10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
opensearch10
aws-elasticsearch10
audit-logging10
java10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
apidoc9
api9
bcrypt8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/security
Dec 2019 - May 2021
🔐 Secure your cluster with TLS, numerous authentication backends, data masking, audit logging as well as role-based access control on indices, documents, and fields
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:252 reviews, 286 commits, 368 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Sujith primarily focused on enhancing the security features of the OpenSearch project. Their contributions include merging advanced security modules and developing an API to enable users to change their own passwords. They also made code changes to support ES 7.5.2 and refactored the thread pool config. Additionally, they addressed code reviews and added features related to audit logging.
indicesrole-basedloggingrolesecure
libindic/sdk-hyphenation
Aug 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
hyphenationandroidsdkkotlinandroid-sdk
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