Apr 2025 – May 2025 · 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Aug 2021 – Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• Building next generation Certificate Issuing Authority.
• ♦ Spearheaded the separation of a service from shared infrastructure to dedicated nodes, creating modular deployment roles and transitioning to secure secrets management. Coordinated cross-functional teams for load balancing, capacity provisioning, and compliance. Developed validation tools and streamlined DNS management, ensuring a smooth transition and preventing customer outages.
• ♦ Resolved a critical issue by migrating a service's Redis cache from overloaded nodes back to the original cluster. Developed and implemented a strategy to selectively transfer cache keys, rebuild the cache on new nodes, and ensure minimal database load. Coordinated with teams, tested in a simulated environment, and executed the migration during off-hours, monitored for success through performance dashboards.

Feb 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · California

• ♦ Designed and developed a client in Rust, responsible for transmitting events along with their metadata from the Backend server to a metering microservice.
• ♦ Created REST APIs in Rust for enhanced error reporting to the Backend server for Compute Node failures. Written middleware to collect Platform information and also toggle Maintenance mode for migration.
• ♦ Implemented from scratch, a smart multi-threaded event handling system in Rust for Fortanix remote Compute Nodes to communicate with Backend server for healthcheck and credential renewal.
• ♦ Created a nightly release pipeline for building and testing RTE - developer sandbox using Jenkins, Azure and AWS S3 to be used by prospective customers. Also written regression and application tests for continuous integration.
• ♦ Released and delivered multiple versions of Fortanix DataShield to IBM. Monitored and resolved issues in data center machines as part of infrastructure on-call.

Jun 2019 – Sep 2019 · 3 mos · Portland, Oregon Area

• Data Flow Facilitator for ML - Intel Open Source (https://github.com/intel/dffml)
• ♦ Added static code analysis tools and enhanced ShouldI package for vulnerabilities and severity issue detections which were meant to guide developers to perform a first-level check on their code and the third party dependencies it has.
• ♦ Implemented operations to fetch latest Python packages from the PyPi server and run Bandit, Safety checks on it to decide if it can be installed or not.
• Chrome OS
• ♦ Integrated power management software into enterprise Chromebooks, enabling manufacturers to assess power consumption before release. Collected and analyzed power and performance data for Chrome OS and Chrome Browser, focusing on graphics, CPU power states, and media encoding.

May 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

• ♦ Written ansible play to deploy ips packages and their dependencies in specific host machines located across various data centers.
• ♦ Developed a scalable multi-threaded daemon in python responsible for taking care of all management plane tasks (enable/disable, policy management, upgrades) in the newly integrated IPS component.
• ♦ Tweaked Suricata’s open source code to extract tenant information from HTTP header instead of VLAN Tag.
• ♦ Performed stress testing and generated report correlating CPU consumption with network throughput; scrutinized spike in load after pumping 1000s of packets at a concurrency of 1000 users with Tsung.
• ♦ Setup network with VXLAN interfaces and NAT tables in Ubuntu 16.04 machines with help of ip, route and iptables commands.
• ♦ Performed essential operations on hash-table in shared memory through in-house wrappers; below mentioned json files had to be put in a hash-table and fetched during run-time by another process.
• ♦ Built a compiler to convert proprietary XML language to JSON files in python.

May 2016 – Apr 2017 · 11 mos

• ♦ Spearheaded stack upgradation process in development stack and updated 35 machines from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 16.04; Encountered and resolved multiple Kernel Panic problems, aided Dev-Ops by offering additional insights to help with the production transition.
• ♦ Owner of development stack and responsible for onboarding new team members, setting up stack during release demos and PoCs. Provisioned 20 new machines for existing and new employees, upgraded the stack components for 10 releases.
• ♦ Setup jenkins machine, created jobs for automated deployment of release packages across all local components and reduced deployment effort by 50%.
• ♦ Analyzed 1000s of user agent strings belonging to various browsers, operating systems, devices; written logic to extract browser version information in C.
• ♦ Wrote web crawlers in python to collect essential information from various sites and integrated Apis from various 3rd party device profiling vendors for product evaluation.
• ♦ Enhanced log processing module by adding help option, stats accumulator, stats resetter in python; aided developers and testers to help with debugging.

Dec 2015 – May 2016 · 5 mos

• ♦ Derived intelligence from live HTTP traffic and generated signatures in XML from unique patterns for login, logout, create, post, edit, delete, share, upload, download and send activities.
• ♦ Written scripts, in bash and python for miscellaneous tasks like automating the compilation and building process, inspecting log files.

Dec 2014 – Dec 2014 · 0 mo · Chennai

• Created prototypes for data manipulation in database using php.
• Gained knowledge on customer entry and mediation.

Feb 2013 – Aug 2013 · 6 mos