Dec 2022 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra

Jun 2019 – Nov 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos · On-site

• Worked on Qualys’s DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing) offering called WAS for Web
• Application and API scanning for detecting security vulnerabilities.
• Led the development of multiple critical features for the WAS Engine, conducting thorough information gathering and requirement analysis with design and implementation of features such as passive scanning, open redirect detection, and other key functionalities.
• Replaced the SSL library (OpenSSL) of an old browser (WebKit) used in the WAS Engine to add support for TLS 1.3, which saved licensing costs for the company.
• Worked on critical CRM issues from clients, prioritizing, fixing, and improving issues regularly, resulting in improved customer retention and acquisition of new clients.
• Learnings: Web Application Security, C++, C++11, C++14, C++17

Jun 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr · On-site

Nov 2014 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Automation Engineer for scale testing of the VMware-NSX, network virtualization platform for the software defined data center.
• Collaborated with the team to enhance the scale test framework, an internal tool used to test a wide range of features in VMware-NSX at scale, resulting in increased scalability testing with more features, including NAT, Edge features, etc.
• Developed and implemented an optimized approach to executing the 2500 API calls required during scale test setup, leveraging C++ REST SDK to separate and execute the calls asynchronously. This initiative reduced the time required for the calls from 30 minutes to 5 minutes.
• Automated Riak cluster setup and clean-up activities.
• Created test plans, test cases for various features of NSX network virtualization software.
• Learnings: Python, Automation, Virtualization, VMware NSX, VMware vSphere

Nov 2013 – Jul 2014 · 8 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Individual Contributor at Zlemma, contributed in building a product that helps companies identify the most qualified candidates by analyzing the profiles of STEM professionals.
• Developed a web application using the Django framework to enable data engineers to easily clean, correct, add, and remove data in MySQL databases using a browser interface. This improved data engineering productivity and streamlined the data cleaning process.
• Customized the open-source web test framework to configure and execute UI tests with various browser versions and types, improving the efficiency and coverage of UI testing.
• Learnings: Python, Django, HTML, Ajax, JavaScript, Selenium, Jenkins, Algorithms, Data Structures, Nginx

Jun 2011 – Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Software Developer for the Siebel Server Infrastructure Team, maintained a large and complex legacy C++ codebase, with a specific focus on addressing memory management and character encoding/decoding issues.
• Played a key role in improving the product by fixing issues reported by both customers and the Coverity static analysis tool
• Solved many issues detected by Coverity static analysis tool and updated codebase.
• Maintained large C++ legacy code base efficiently.
• Learnings: C++, Algorithms, Data Structures, Standard Template Library(STL)