Vikas Kumar
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVikas Kumar is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience designing and building highly available, scalable distributed systems, currently focused on cloud and data security at Cloudera. He has held senior engineering and lead roles at Intellicus, Oracle, Ericsson, and Aricent, bringing deep expertise in Java/JEE, multi-threading, asynchronous programming, coordination systems, microservices, Docker, and ELK/EFK stacks. Vikas contributes to Apache Ranger’s KMS module, adding health metrics and improving key management flows—highlighting practical experience with open-source security tooling for big data platforms. A Birla Institute of Technology MCA graduate based in Bengaluru, he blends hands-on backend engineering with system design and an eye for operational observability.
2 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MCA, Computer Science, MCA, Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
apache-ranger10
collections10
javas10
backend10
data-collection10
back-end-development10
java10
metric10
security9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
apache/ranger
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
Apache Ranger - To enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform and beyond
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Vikas's commits primarily focused on enhancing the KMS (Key Management System) module within the Apache Ranger project. They introduced metrics for KMS health, specifically tracking key creation, deletion, and other operations to improve monitoring. These changes involved modifying existing Java code within the KMS server to integrate metric collection and improve code readability and performance. Furthermore, the user also worked on generating EDEK and DEK together.
javaapacheapache-rangerrangerauthz
vikaskr22/hadoop
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
Apache Hadoop
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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