# Nishad Kumar

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nishadkumar

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer III @ Workday
Jan 2024 – Present | Pleasanton, California, United States

### Full Stack Developer II @ Workday
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Pleasanton, California, United States

### Cloud Software Engineer @ CARFAX
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
At Carfax, I was part of the platform team which extended support to various stakeholders such as Consumers, Dealers and Partners who deal with data at scale(billions of records every year). I got to:

           - Work in a dynamic & agile team environment owning, developing, enhancing and maintaining our 
              platform auth product.
           - Participate in design decisions and prototyping newly onboarded technologies.
           - Collaborate closely with my peer engineers, architects, support teams and stakeholders.
           - Work with various exciting AWS services like Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams, CloudFormation, 
              Athena amongst others.

Technologies/Languages : Auth0, AWS, React JS, Node JS, Typescript, Kotlin, Java 

Version Control/CI-CD: BitBucket, GitLab

### Software Development Engineer @ Cavirin Systems, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Jose, California
• Analyzed security implications for applications deployed on cloud infrastructure(AWS, GCP & Azure) and authored security policies for over 60 cloud resource types using Python. These security policies enabled customers to audit their cloud infrastructures to be compliant with frameworks such as HIPAA, PCI and SOC2.

• As part of Cavirin's closed loop security to assess security and compliance, developed monitoring framework to log events in case of configuration changes and alert the customers. Achieved this by making use of monitoring services like AWS Cloudtrail, AWS Cloudwatch, Azure monitor and GCP Stackdriver.

• Published Cavirin Companion App for Splunk to splunkbase(Marketplace) that provided SecOps users an ability to visualize security findings, summary stats, Security & Compliance score, prioritized issues at the company level on a single pane dashboard, and customize dashboard using Cavirin's API and Splunk's Search Query Language. 

• Integrated Cavirin with Google's Cloud Security Command Center that helps security teams prevent, detect and respond to threats targeting their GCP resources from a single pane of glass. Accomplished it by designing APIs, data models and validating service accounts that was used to push the findings.

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Shimadzu Institute for Research Technologies
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area

### Software Engineer @ Mindtree Ltd.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Bangalore


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Arlington
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Information Technology
SJB Institute of Technology
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nishadvkumar
- Website: https://nishadkumar.medium.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22