Welcome to the official GitHub profile of @niroshan
About Me
Hi, I'm a Githubber working on/with/in our Advanced Security Product. I work in the Field organisation, supporting our sales and solution engineering teams working with our customers Globally. I joined GitHub in September 2019 as part of their acquisiton of Semmle. At Semmle, we made the most amazing Semantic Analyser I have ever seen, known as CodeQL.
Elsewhere on the internet
Magazine Articles
- New Electronics - October 2018 - Cyber Security: Teach Them To Fish
- New Electronics - October 2018 - Cybercrime is on-going, but many breaches could be prevented
- Aerospace Testing International - October 2018 - Best In Test
- TEST Magazine - July 2018 -Viva La Revolution!
- EE Design Europe - October 2017 - Migrate and modernise old applications: How difficult can it be?
- TEST Magazine – November 2016 - Will the 'Connected Car' ever be safe enough
- Vehicle Electronics - April 2016 Software is everywhere - One of Four Part Series on Automotive Software
- Vehicle Electronics - May 2016 Software: In the red - Two of Four Part Series on Automotive Software
- Vehicle Electronics - June 2016 Software: On the button - Three of Four Part Series on Automotive Software
- Vehicle Electronics - July 2016 Software: Right direction - Four of Four Part Series on Automotive Software
Popular blog posts
- How SpaceX Develops Software
- Technical debt in the world of Internet of Things / IoT
- 5 ways to accelerate testing for your IoT Devices
- How to address Software Quality for the Industrial Internet of Things
- Five Steps to implement Continuous Testing
Popular vblog posts
Conference Presentations
- The Safe & Secure Software Factory - Vector Congress 2018
- Dynamically Proving That Security Issues Exist in IoT Software - Electronica 2016 - Munich, Germany
- Verification and Validation of IoT Systems for IEC 61508 - Embedded World 2012
- Automating Software Testing for Safety Critical Systems - Embedded World 2011
Projects
Get motivated
Nice motivation videos that get me going - external sources
- Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech (in color)
- Bruce Lee - Be like water
- Admiral McRaven addresses the University of Texas at Austin Class of 2014
- Matthew McConaughey winning Best Actor
- These Are Arnold Schwarzenegger's 5 Rules for Success | Motivational Speech | Goalcast
- Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
⚡ Fun fact
My wife is a professional dancer and thought we should do something fun for our First Dance at our Wedding. I on the other hand am NOT a dancer in anyway shape or form... enjoy...
Misc
🔭 I’m currently working on GitHub Advanced Security👯 I’m looking to collaborate on ideas to drive Application Security innovation forwards💬 Ask me about Functional Safety, Safety Critical Systems and Application Security😄 Pronouns: no preference
Intersting Reference Documents related to improving Software Quality
- Bookout Versus Toyota
- Defect Escape Analysis - Test Process Improvement
- Cost per Defect Metric - Capers Jones
Speaker Bio
Niroshan brings more than 20 years of experience in the design and development of safety-critical and fault-tolerant systems.
In recent years, he has collaborated in the development of pioneering innovations in the field of DevOps and Application Security. This includes technologies such as application security testing, change-based testing, code fuzzing, and variant analysis for the hunting of 0-days in Enterprise Software.
Prior to GitHub, Niroshan led growth at Semmle, the company behind the CodeQL semantic code analysis engine which powers GitHub’s Advanced Security code scanning capability. Semmle was acquired by Microsoft/GitHub in September 2019.
