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Ashish Jha

About

I’m Ashish — a Principal Software Engineer at Skydda.ai, building next-gen agentic cybersecurity solutions. Previously I spent ~4 years at Devo working on cloud-native security data platforms (SIEM / SOAR). This site is where I write about software, systems, and the things I’m learning.

Experience
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Principal Software Engineer — Skydda.ai
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Apr 2026 – Present · Remote

  • Building next-gen agentic cybersecurity solutions.

Devo · Noida
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Sep 2022 – Jul 2026 · Cloud-Native Security Data Platform | SIEM | SOAR

Engineering Manager — Nov 2023 – Jul 2026 · Hybrid

  • Built a no-code Agentic Workflow Orchestration platform (strike48.com) for the enterprise — creating and deploying agentic workflows across verticals including Security and Compliance.
  • Led a team of 5 engineers owning the development of Devo’s SOAR product.
  • Designed and led the migration of Devo’s largest SOAR customer from an air-gapped on-premises environment to SaaS with zero downtime and seamless data transition.
  • Contributed to SOC 2 Type II and FedRAMP certifications by implementing robust technical controls and streamlining compliance processes.

Senior Software Engineer — Sep 2022 – Nov 2023 (Devo acquired Logichub)

  • Architected and implemented the migration of Devo SOAR to a Kubernetes-based microservices architecture, improving scalability, availability, and monitoring.
  • Managed the SIEM offering of Logichub, ingesting terabytes of data via OpenDistro on Kubernetes — ~30% of net ARR.
  • Built an S3-backed data lake using Spark and Scala for efficient querying of cold data in S3.

Software Developer — Storymirror · Mumbai
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June 2020 – June 2021 · Content Platform for Vernacular Languages

  • Owned end-to-end product development, deployment, and reliability.
  • Built internal and external product features using Django.
  • Implemented system and application monitoring from scratch with Prometheus, Grafana, and NewRelic, plus log management via the ELK stack.
  • Built site search using Elasticsearch and FastAPI so users could find content and other users efficiently.

Software Developer — OYO · Gurugram
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July 2019 – June 2020 · Hospitality chain

  • Built and deployed a Django application on Kubernetes serving competitive data on prices, amenities, and hotel metadata; automated partner extranet portals with Selenium.
  • Developed a price-parity platform analyzing OYO property prices across online channels, improving the price quality score by 9.5%.

Education
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IIT (ISM) Dhanbad — B.Tech. in Civil Engineering · 2015 – 2019

Skills
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Languages: Scala, Python, Java, Elixir

Tools & Frameworks: Spark, SQL, Django, Flask, FastAPI, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Kibana, Grafana, Kubernetes, Docker

Spoken: Hindi (native), English (proficient)