Yusuf Kanchwala
Articled Assistant at Yogesh Sovani and Associates,
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolYusuf Kanchwala is a meticulous Articled Assistant and hands-on engineer with eight years of experience blending back-end development, DevOps, and infrastructure security. Based in Pune, he has made notable open-source contributions to projects like Tenable’s Terrascan and Red Hat’s odo, building CLI and server features for IaC scanning and improving developer workflows for containerized apps. His work shows a practical focus on runtime reliability, code quality, and developer experience—implementing health checks, remote scanning, devfile parsing, and experimental feature toggles. Trained through the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India with a commerce background, he brings an uncommon mix of technical engineering rigor and audit-minded discipline. A self-described “eternal novice,” he continuously learns and applies that curiosity to bridge compliance, security, and developer productivity.
8 years of coding experience
Institute of Chartered Accountants of IndiaBachelor of Commerce - BCom, Accounting, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Accounting at SK Somaiya College of Arts Commerce and Science
Github Skills (30)
kubernetes10
container10
go10
aac10
kubernetes-pods10
infrastructure-as-code10
developper10
devops10
testing9
terraform9
cicd9
go-testing9
terraformer9
cloud-security9
developer-tools9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tenable/terrascan
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:271 reviews, 269 commits, 147 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Yusuf's contributions primarily focused on establishing the foundational structure and features for the Terrascan CLI and server modes. They implemented the initial CLI support, developed the HTTP server functionality, including health check endpoints, and introduced essential packages for runtime execution. They also added features for scanning Iac files, remote directory scanning, and integrated code quality checks, demonstrating a strong understanding of both backend and infrastructure development.
cloudsecurityrisksastcompliancecloud-security
redhat-developer/odo
Nov 2019 - Apr 2020
odo - Developer-focused CLI for fast & iterative container-based application development on Podman and Kubernetes. Implementation of the open Devfile standard.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 15 PRs, 95 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Yusuf primarily contributed to the `odo` project by implementing new features and improving the codebase related to developer experience and container-based application development. Their work included adding environment variables for logging control, integrating a devfile parser, and introducing an experimental mode for new features. Furthermore, the user demonstrated skills in modifying existing code related to the core functionality of `odo`, including preference settings and internal packages.
golangodocontainersdeveloper-tooliterative
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