OpenLiberty/open-liberty
Nov 2024 – Aug 2025
2 Months active
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HTMLJSONJavaProperties
Technical Skills
Code AuditingConfiguration ManagementSecrets ManagementSecuritySecurity ScanningCompliance
Simy Sam Cheeran
PROFILE
Simy Sam Cheeran
Worked on OpenLiberty/open-liberty to enhance security and compliance workflows over a two-month period. Addressed secrets scanning accuracy by auditing detect-secrets results, updating the .secrets.baseline, and excluding generated JavaScript files to reduce false positives, which streamlined triage and improved baseline hygiene. Delivered a feature clarifying the status of MD5, DES, and RC4 cryptographic constants under FIPS 140-3, ensuring they are marked unused when FIPS is enabled but retained for backward compatibility. Utilized Java, JSON, and configuration management skills to improve maintainability, reduce misconfiguration risk, and support secure production deployments without disrupting existing integrations or certification processes.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
50%Features
Repository Contributions
4Total
Bugs
1
Commits
4
Features
1
Lines of code
73
Activity Months2
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Work History
August 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Aug 1, 2025In 2025-08, focused on security compliance readability and backward compatibility for OpenLiberty. Delivered a feature clarifying the status of MD5, DES, and RC4 constants with respect to FIPS 140-3 enablement. Constants are marked unused when FIPS is enabled but retained for backward compatibility to prevent breaking existing code. This reduces misconfiguration risk and supports certification workflows.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Aug 1, 2025In 2025-08, focused on security compliance readability and backward compatibility for OpenLiberty. Delivered a feature clarifying the status of MD5, DES, and RC4 constants with respect to FIPS 140-3 enablement. Constants are marked unused when FIPS is enabled but retained for backward compatibility to prevent breaking existing code. This reduces misconfiguration risk and supports certification workflows.
August 2025
November 2024
3 Commits
Nov 1, 2024Month 2024-11 — OpenLiberty/open-liberty: Improved Secrets Scanning Accuracy and baseline hygiene. Focused on reducing noise from false positives in the detect-secrets workflow by auditing results, updating the .secrets.baseline, and excluding a generated/minified JS file from scanning. This work enhances security posture with minimal production impact and enables faster triage of genuine issues.
November 2024
3 Commits
Nov 1, 2024Month 2024-11 — OpenLiberty/open-liberty: Improved Secrets Scanning Accuracy and baseline hygiene. Focused on reducing noise from false positives in the detect-secrets workflow by auditing results, updating the .secrets.baseline, and excluding a generated/minified JS file from scanning. This work enhances security posture with minimal production impact and enables faster triage of genuine issues.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness95.0%
Maintainability95.0%
Architecture90.0%
Performance90.0%
AI Usage20.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
HTMLJSONJavaProperties
Technical Skills
Code AuditingComplianceConfiguration ManagementCryptographySecrets ManagementSecuritySecurity Scanning
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