Kishor R

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

9 years of experience in Networking R&D Firmware Development.
Expertise in Network Security across multiple layers.
Led customer escalation teams and presented innovative solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Networking Security Engineer specializing in firmware development and network solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Network SecurityFirmware Development

Other Skills

User Based PolicingDynamic SegmentationZTP based PKI managementEAP Fragmentation supportIOT device sticky-MAC solutionRADIUS trackingTACACS+ AuthorizationBYOD solutionFirst Hop SecurityCertificate ManagementLocal MAC AuthenticationEntropy EngineDeterministic Random Bits GeneratorFederal Government CertificationCryptography

About

• A skilled software engineer from ‘HPE Aruba Networks’ with about 9 years of experience in Networking R&D Firmware Development using C language. • My strengths: Strong experience and expertise on Network Security in L2/L3/L7: - User Based Policing: Downloadable user-role policing and dynamic segmentation - Certificate management: EST, TPM, Digital Signatures and PKI - Access security: 802.1x, mac-based authentication, LMA - Authentication Server: RADIUS, TACACS+ - Core cryptography: Entropy, Hashing, Key Exchange, Encryption - Secure transmission: IPSec, RadSec, TLS, SSH - Management security: UCR standard compliance, SNMP - Federal government certification: FIPS, Common Criteria, California regulations • Integrated multiple edge-switching solutions, collaborating with different Aruba product team(Aruba Activate/Central/Controller) • Presented DUR, ZTP-EST, BYOD and Captive Portal solutions • Led security team for customer escalation. • SPOC for multiple high profile customer account escalations • Have presented multiple paper in the field of Network Security • Firmware development on embedded systems • Analysis and designs of complex modules, full SDLC • Strong analytical skills, solid troubleshooting experience • Team lead, mentor, member of hiring drives technical panel

Experience

14 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Extreme networks

Staff Software Engineer

Apr 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Aruba, a hewlett packard enterprise company

3 roles

Senior System Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2017 – Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos · India

Leading teams of 2-5 members in the below projects.
Along with Leading the customer escalation team.
Designed and developed downloadable User role with dynamic segmentation solution
Designed and developed ZTP based PKI management using EST RFC 7030
Designed and developed EAP Fragmentation support in authenticator switch: RFC 5216 & 3579
Design and developed IOT device sticky-MAC solution
Designed and developed RADIUS tracking and dynamic dead time. RFC 2865
California law SB-327 Information privacy: connected devices
Designed and developed TACACS+ Authorization and accounting: TACACS+ draft
Designed and developed First Hop Security solution in access switches.
Designed and developed Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) and captive portal solution in access switches.
Module owner for User-role, EST, 802.1x, BYOD, Web-Mac-Auth ,RADIUS, TACACS+ from 2016-present
Member of technical pane for hiring drives

User Based PolicingDynamic SegmentationZTP based PKI managementEAP Fragmentation supportIOT device sticky-MAC solutionRADIUS tracking+5

Engineering Specialist

Promoted

Aug 2014 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · India

Implemented Local MAC Authentication support.
Designed and developed Entropy Engine and Deterministic Random Bits Generator: NIST SP800-90
Implemented Suite-B profile for x509v3: RFC 5280.
Implemented Federal Government certification (FIPS, CC) for 5400R, 3810 and 2930(F/M) switches.
Assessing the Vulnerabilities published in National Vulnerability Database and security advisory bulletins.
Designed and developed CPU Optimization during TPM key installation.
Upgradation of Mocana Cryptographic libraries in switching platforms.
Applied cryptography – SHA2, MD5, AES(CBC, GCM), RSA, Diffie-Hellman KeyEx.
Mentoring new hires
Module owner for Local Mac Auth, Deterministic Random Number Generator, Certificate Management from 2015-present

Local MAC AuthenticationEntropy EngineDeterministic Random Bits GeneratorFederal Government CertificationCryptographyNetwork Security+1

System Software Engineer

Aug 2011 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · India

Built an CLI infra structure tool to find the possible command combination for the firmware release, which will be used by test automation team
Implemented CLI’s and SNMP support for Styx project and multiple security features
Security code coverity management
Module owner for security CLI and SNMP from 2013-15

CLI Infrastructure ToolSNMP SupportSecurity Code ManagementFirmware Development