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Sumit Kumar

Software Engineer

About Me

I am a Software Engineer with expertise in backend development, cloud infrastructure, and security tooling. My professional experience focuses on developing and maintaining security applications and services, with a strong emphasis on scalable and reliable systems.

Skills

Languages

Python GraphQL

Databases

PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB

Frameworks

Celery gRPC FastAPI Django REST

Infrastructure

Airflow Elasticsearch Nginx RabbitMQ Redis AWS Lambda AWS ECS Docker

Experience

Software Engineer at Strobes May 2022 – Present

Attack Surface Management (ASM)

  • Developed an application to mitigate risks to digital infrastructure
  • Monitored 150,000+ ports for potential vulnerabilities daily
  • Tracked 50,000+ assets with daily snapshots of their public exposure
  • Maintained a record of 400,000+ security findings for comprehensive risk assessment
  • Technologies: Airflow, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch clusters, Kibana, AWS Lambda, Docker, Nginx, FastAPI, Ubuntu server, ETL

Triangulum

  • Worked on a microservice to orchestrate security tools in a sandboxed environment
  • Built integrations for ZAP, Bandit, Prowler, Nuclei, Semgrep, Trivy, Snyk, Wiz and others
  • Developed a Cloud Asset Inventory tool for AWS and GCP, using Boto3 and Google Cloud SDK
  • Implemented task tracking with state update and user-friendly error codes for improved observability
  • Adapted the collection of data from conventional methods to a queue-based messaging system
  • Directly impacted the generation of 1,000,000+ findings and 20,000+ assets
  • Technologies: gRPC, Celery, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Docker, AWS ECS

Strobes SaaS Platform

  • Implemented a drafts feature to save in-progress user actions and restore them on reload or similar events
  • Developed homepage widgets to deliver real-time stats and a comprehensive organizational overview
  • Designed report templates tailored to end-user roles and security assessment types
  • Integrated Mixpanel to track user preference activities overview
  • Technologies: Django Rest, Nginx, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Celery, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Redis

Additional Contributions

  • Developed a service that verifies the state of Network/Web findings in real-time by executing PoC templates
  • Developed an automated patch application service that generates pull requests for codebase updates
  • Developed a threat intelligence database that correlates with vulnerable packages and updates daily

Projects

Trove

Automated security intelligence tool that aggregates CVE, CWE, and CAPEC data to enhance vulnerability detection workflows.

Trishiras

FastAPI-based SaaS platform demonstration that serves as a central hub for security automation, integrated with MongoDB for data storage and Celery for task management.

Botly

GenAI tool to perform RAG operations on documents.

Certificates

Education

B.Sc(H) in Mathematics - University of Delhi