Nikitha Gendehally Kiran
Bangalore
Summary
Software License Compliance Analyst| Open Source License Compliance|Open Source Review Board |Technical Legal Compliance| FOSS Compliance|Software Risk Management|Intellectual Property Audit | Source Code Audits |Open Source License Management|Open Source Vulnerability Management|Open Source Awareness Training|Software provenance|License agreements
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Specialist- Software License Compliance
Elektrobit India Private Ltd
Bangalore, India
08.2019 - Current
- Focused professional with around 10 plus years of experience in Automotive Industry. Part of OSRB team- Handled high risk licenses (AGPL,GPL) use case scenarios and also resolved it.
- Handled electric car projects like SONY,BMW,Volkswagen-ICAS1.
- Received appreciation from customers.
- Involved in creation of Open Source External Web page for Elektrobit.
- Provided Open Source Awareness training sessions for developers.
- Proposed idea and supported in establishing open source service desk at Elektrobit.
- Established review process checklist in open source compliance team.
- Involved in Open Chain certification process by creating new process workflow in QMS and reviewing the open source policy.
- Provided Open Source Awareness training sessions for developers.
- Creating and Maintaining open source license obligations.
- Approval for Open Source contribution and also for Inner source projects.
- Basic knowledge on Docker compliance using blackduck tool.
- Attending OSADL and openchain Reference Tooling Work Group Meeting.
- Research on How does the GPL applies to interpreted languages like python.
- Part of OSS process working group at Elektrobit.
- Acted as scrum master by creating scrum boards and conducting sprint planning and sprint retrospective.
- Plagiarisms scans on Hypervisor,EB cadian, ADG,ACG, EB assist, EB xelor projects.
- Spdx BOM generations for project like EB tresos.
Global Technical Legal Compliance Analyst
SAP Labs
Bengaluru, India
08.2018 - 08.2019
- Involved in the area of Open Source License Compliance process.
- Hands on Experience in working with Open Source Compliance Tools like BlackDuck hub, Protex, Fossology and Codecente and identifying open source components, resolving license and vulnerability issues, fulfilling license obligations.
- Generating SPDX BOM.
- Knowledge on how to read, understand and interpret the specifics about legal documents(laws, contracts, license texts).
- Advise on development areas in the Open source software usage and OSS topics and supervise on OSS compliance.
- Basic Knowledge on Web services and API usage license compliance.
Senior Software Engineer - Open Source License Compliance Analyst
Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Limited
Bengaluru, India
02.2014 - 06.2018
- Project Open Source Software Co-ordinator for GM, Suzuki,PSA,Nissan,Daimler,BMW clients.
- Create and maintain project specific Open Source Governance(OSG) documents as required by QMS like Open Source Policy, Open Source License Policy, etc.
- Gather information about known OSS components from development team and document relevant data (licenses, copyrights, obligations).
- Analyze project and product code base with regard to used Open Source Software (OSS) including both full components and code snippets(plagiarism scan using protex blackduck).
- Approval for OSS used in Bosch by being part of Open Source Review Board (OSRB).
- Participate in customer meetings related to OSS topics.
- Experience in the automotive industry, especially in embedded software development.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science and Engineering
JSS Academy Of Technical Education
Bangalore, India06-2013
Skills
- Open Source License Compliance
- Blackduck Hub, Protex, Git,SVN,Fossology,SW360 and Flexera
- C,C,Java,Python
- Open Source Awareness Trainings
- Open Source Vulnerability Management
- Open Source License Management
- Open Source Review Board
- Software Risk Management
Accomplishments
- SPOT awards for launching Web based Open Source Compliance training at Elektrobit
- Maverick team award
- SPOT awards for being individual contributor
- Open Source Awareness training at Elektrobit
- Appreciation from customers like BMW, Ford, ICAS1
Certification
- 03/2021
- From expert to professional trainer
- Elektrobit
Language Skills
English
Awards
Professional Trainer - Good presentation skills, Alexander Kocher, CEO of Elektrobit, Email Appreciation, Web based training across Elektrobit on Open Source Compliance
Timeline
Technical Specialist- Software License Compliance
Elektrobit India Private Ltd
08.2019 - Current
Global Technical Legal Compliance Analyst
SAP Labs
08.2018 - 08.2019
Senior Software Engineer - Open Source License Compliance Analyst
Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Limited
02.2014 - 06.2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science and Engineering
JSS Academy Of Technical Education