Supratik Das is a hands-on CTO and co-founder with eight years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, observability tooling, and secure web services while still completing a B.Tech at IIT Roorkee. He’s fluent in Golang, Rust, Python, JavaScript and C++, and has driven production-grade work at American Express (Fluentd/ELF observability, chaos engineering) and startups, plus founding Dashwave. An active open-source contributor, he has improved CLI and DevOps workflows in prominent projects like Keptn and Cloud Native Buildpacks and tightened security in the OWASP Juice Shop. Supratik blends low-level systems thinking with product-focused automation, mentors teams from his SDSLabs tenure, and even describes himself on GitHub as a “Supervillain in disguise,” hinting at a playful, creative approach to tough engineering problems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
96.4%, 96.4% at St. Joseph's Convent Higher Secondary School
CLI for building apps using Cloud Native Buildpacks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Contributions:22 commits, 8 PRs, 24 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Supratik primarily contributed to validating configuration files and fixing errors related to invalid builder.toml files. They implemented checks for obsolete configuration fields and improved error messaging for incorrect configurations. Furthermore, the user's commits involved modifying and reverting test files related to creating and validating builder configurations, suggesting a focus on build process automation.
OWASP Juice Shop: Probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Contributions:84 commits, 16 PRs, 72 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Supratik focused on improving the security of the OWASP Juice Shop web application. They added checks for XSS vulnerabilities in user input, implemented regular expressions to filter out potentially malicious tags, and wrote end-to-end tests to verify the effectiveness of these security measures. The user's contributions included adding new server-side regexes for further input validation and addressing linting issues in the codebase.
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