Manikandan Rajappan

DevOps Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in automating security processes and tools.
Proficient in cloud security and vulnerability management.
Strong background in developing APIs and CI/CD security controls.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Security and Automation Engineer with a focus on Fintech and SaaS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud SecurityDevopsApplication Security

Other Skills

API developmentAPI testing automationAWSAWS WAFArtificial IntelligenceAsset inventory designBI toolsBurp Plugin DevelopmentBurp Plugins DevelopmentCI/CD pipeline setupCI/CD security controlsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)ChatbotCloud Pub/SubCore Java

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Experienced Automation and Security Engineer with 8 years in software development. Proficient in designing and implementing security solutions, developing in-house tools, and automating security processes. Skilled in Python, REST APIs, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, AWS, and more.

Experience

10 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Razorpay

3 roles

Staff Security Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2025 – Present · 7 mos

Lead Security Engineer

May 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

1. Implemented CI/CD security controls using GitHub Workflows.
2. Developed tools to identify EOL components and block pipelines automatically with JIRA integration.
3. Developed APIs to share IOCs with single click deployment on AWS, fostering knowledge exchange between Razorpay and third parties.
4. Worked as a Design Partner to solve Data Exfilteration problems, instrumental from ideation to deployment in order to meet RBI guidelines.

CI/CD security controlsGitHub WorkflowsAPI developmentAWSJIRA integrationCloud Security+1

Senior Security Engineer

Jan 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

1. Designed asset inventory with Cartography and visualized data with BI tools.
2. Real-time DDoS Identification and Mitigation and write AWS WAF on the fly with no negative impact on legitimate traffic.
3. Vulnerability Management (App/Cloud Security)

Asset inventory designDDoS identificationAWS WAFVulnerability ManagementCloud SecurityApplication Security

Synopsys inc

2 roles

Security Consultant

Promoted

May 2021 – Jan 2022 · 8 mos

1. Developing tools to automate end-to-end API testing.
2. Designed and developed the platform to integrate open source utilities and get assessment activities from consultant level.

API testing automationOpen source integrationApplication Security

Associate Consultant

Jan 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

Burp Plugin Development. Open sourced one of the BURP plugins – ATOR https://github.com/synopsys-sig/ATOR-Burp

Burp Plugin DevelopmentApplication Security

Hcl technologies

Lead Software Engineer

Aug 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

1. Automated the port scanning on assets, identifying vulnerabilities on images periodically by cross checking the NVD Database
2. Automated false positive removal in Black Duck.

Port scanning automationVulnerability identificationFalse positive removalCloud Security