Sulav Acharya
Full Stack Developer · DevOps Engineer · Security Systems
8+ years building mission-critical distributed systems across defense, intelligence, and enterprise sectors. I specialize in secure infrastructure, scalable microservices, and DevOps automation — from HPC enclave security and Kubernetes orchestration to SOC automation and full-stack application development.
Experience
MRG — DCMLS Enterprise Apr 2025 – Present
Full Stack Developer - Integrated RSA SecurID into an MLS environment spanning multiple classification levels and HPC enclaves, enabling secure multi-user access.
- Built MINT (MLS Integrated Networking Tool) to define entire HPC enclaves with custom security levels, SELinux netlabels, ports, and DNS — converting configs into Ansible playbooks for automated provisioning.
- Automated deployment of diskless login nodes via DHCPD groups, enabling selective image rollouts for thin clients across enclaves.
- Automated IDM Replication Server deployments to ensure high-availability user accounts across air-gapped networks.
CACI — RTD Valanor Jul 2024 – Apr 2025
Full Stack Developer - Redesigned the Playback microservice, boosting processing speed by 38% by eliminating redundant operations and minimizing bottlenecks.
- Optimized Kubernetes resource utilization, decrease system resource consumption by 12% by resolving excessive memory consumption.
- Led frontend migration to Vue 3, Node.js, AG Grid, Vite, and Rollup; introduced UI metrics to track session duration and resolve memory leaks.
- Built scalable microservices for data pipeline management with RabbitMQ Exchange for failure recovery and status reporting.
- Integrated Prometheus metrics into Go services for proactive performance monitoring and diagnostics.
Obscurity Labs — Bifrost, Keyfactor, MDR, GVS, TO28 Jun 2019 – Jun 2024
Full Stack Developer / DevOps Engineer / SOC Automation Engineer - Delivered a software acquisition platform securing 100K+ packages/month across PyPi, NPM, Maven, Git, and Ruby Gems with custom analyst risk dashboards.
- Boosted developer productivity by 60% by automating Ant Build System workflows with a Python wrapper, removing Eclipse dependency.
- Deployed a two-tier PKI system across cloud and on-prem domains; built custom Ansible modules for Keyfactor's API for cross-domain certificate management.
- Implemented SOC automation in FortiSOAR integrating Sentinel One, Proofpoint, and Cisco ASA with Elasticsearch SIEM alerting pipelines.
- Designed and migrated Kafka topic workflows for microservices; integrated Ingest and Reporting services with S3 for streamlined file handling.
- Served as SME for Google Earth Enterprise; authored deployment workflows and automated static code analysis for compliance.
Ampcus Inc — Appian Team May 2018 – Mar 2019
Full Stack Developer - Developed and deployed full-stack applications in Appian BPM (v18.2–19.1) including SAIL interfaces, process models, and record/report frameworks.
- Integrated Appian with Python computer vision tools (OpenCV, Pytesseract) to enable OCR/ICR for automated document processing.
- Built RPA workflows with Selenium to automate record management; led Agile Scrum practices as Scrum Master.
Skills
Languages
Python Go TypeScript C C++ PHP Java x86 Assembly
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes Docker Helm Terraform Ansible
Databases
PostgreSQL MongoDB MySQL Neo4j SQLite S3
Web & API
React Vue 3 Astro Angular FastAPI Flask Django REST net/http
Messaging & Streaming
RabbitMQ Kafka Redis SQS
CI/CD & Automation
GitHub Actions Jenkins Argo CD