Venkata Sura
Senior Software Engineer at Guidewire Software
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVenkata Sura is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Jose with about a decade of experience building cloud-native security tooling and full-stack applications. He specializes in backend systems and cloud/runtime container security using Go, C/C++, Java, JavaScript and Python, and has hands-on experience across CI/CD, Elasticsearch, Neo4j and Kafka. At Deepfence he was a lead contributor to ThreatMapper and the primary developer of YaraHunter—work that helped those projects trend on GitHub and added substantial malware- and secret-scanning capabilities for containers and images. Prior roles at Tenable and McAfee reinforced his expertise in shift-left security, compliance automation and telemetry-driven dashboards. He pairs customer-facing troubleshooting with deep engineering—designing ThreatGraph correlations and automated notification pipelines that link scanner findings to incident workflows. Venkata holds a master’s in software engineering from San Jose State and blends security-focused backend craftsmanship with practical DevOps and integration know-how.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 4/4, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 4/4 at Gandhi Institute of Technology & Management (GITAM) University, VisakhapatnamSan José State University
Github Skills (24)
vulnerability-management10
python10
it-security10
security10
go10
malware10
vulnerability-detection10
yara10
anti-malware10
api-design9
restful-api9
amazon-elasticsearch9
devsecops9
api-rest9
dockers9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
deepfence/YaraHunter
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
🔍🔍 Malware scanner for cloud-native, as part of CI/CD and at Runtime 🔍🔍
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:133 commits, 27 PRs, 124 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Venkata primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `yarahunter` project, which is a malware scanner. Their work involved implementing features for scanning images, directories, and containers, as well as output formatting. They made significant code changes within the `main.go`, `output/output.go`, and `scan/process_image.go` files, indicating a focus on functionality and refining the malware scanning process. The user added new functionality to process docker images and the use of the yara scanner.
yara-scannerdevsecops-best-practicesscannersecurity-toolsyara
deepfence/ThreatMapper
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Open Source Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 275 commits, 52 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Venkata contributed to the backend code by modifying the `reaper_tasks.py` file to handle issues related to Elasticsearch scan statuses. They also made changes to the `malware_scan_api.py` file, likely adding or modifying functionality related to malware scanning within the ThreatMapper platform. The changes involved addressing issues in the CVE and secret scan queues and integrating changes to the malware scanner. These changes suggest the user focused on improving the reliability and functionality of the core threat scanning components.
cloudsecuritysecopsvulnerability-managementthreat-analysisobservability
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