Summary
Roshan Kumar is a Security Engineer with six years of hands-on experience combining vulnerability-focused engineering and developer-driven automation. Currently at CRED and active in the NixOS community, he blends product security work with deep open-source involvement—recently contributing to Nixpkgs and improving firmware upgrade UX as a GSoC contributor for OpenWISP. He has led engineering teams and startups, mentored multiple open-source programs, and shipped features for embedded device management like retry logic, mass upgrades and REST APIs. Comfortable across tooling, firmware, and cloud-facing security, he brings a pragmatic developer mindset to hardening distributed systems. Based in Kolkata, he pairs formal CS training with a track record of turning community contributions into production-ready solutions.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
10th, 446 / 500, 10th, 446 / 500 at Jesus and Mary academy
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Heritage Institute of Technology
12th, 450 / 500, 12th, 450 / 500 at Delhi model public school
English, Hindi