Nirmal Shankar is an experienced Application Security Architect and Team Lead in DevOps at Early Warning®, with a career spanning from October 2014 to the present. Nirmal has expertise in creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with development, architecture, and security teams to automate processes. Proficient in configuration management using Chef, version control with Git and SVN, and build tools such as Maven and Gradle, Nirmal has also worked with Docker containers and established build pipelines for iOS and Android applications. Nirmal's prior experience at Accenture from June 2006 to October 2014 as a Build and Release Manager involved significant contributions to software configuration management, particularly with SVN and ClearCase.