Sep 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs · Greater Hamburg Area

• Big Data and Writing Scalable Software
• Advertisement Categorisation
• Providing scalable service and architecture for real-time retrieval of ad metadata
• Scalable and fault-tolerant distribution of configuration data
• Adapting Real Time Bidding process in accordance with EU - General Data Privacy
• Regulation (GDPR)

Nov 2015 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Hamburg Area

• Working on dCache - a system for storing and retrieving huge amounts of data, distributed among a large number of heterogenous server nodes, under a single virtual filesystem tree with a variety of standard access methods.
• Secure Inter-Process, Inter-Domain communication between dCache components.
• Implementation and Integration of Authentication Delegation based on OpenID Identifiers.
• Kerberos (SPNEGO) based Authentication for webdav door in dCache.
• Quality of Storage (QoS) plugin for dCache to interact with CDMI (Cloud Data Management Interface) endpoint.
• Research Activities
• Speaker on Federated Identity and Anonymised Delegation - 10th International dCache Workshop, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
• Paper on "dCache, towards Federated Identity and Anonymized Delegation" - 22nd International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP)

Feb 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Cologne Bonn Region

• Currently with Q-loud division on the development of Solucon Cloud Platform
• Designed REST API to create, update and manage rules to automate and control Solucon gateways.
• Design and implementation of a scalable and distributed engine to execute rules on the Solucon cloud platform.
• Improve the security rating of Solucon API servers.
• Worked in SensorCloud, O(SC)2ar (Open Service Cloud for the Smart Car) and FINESCE (Future Internet Smart Utility Services) projects for QSC AG on the following,
• Registration and authentication of gateways on behalf of the owner to a trustful cloud platform
• JSON-based SensorCloud Protocol for the interaction between internal components on the gateway and within the cloud environment
• Secure upload of Sensor, CAN data etc. and provide control and privacy over uploaded data to the owner
• Encryption of sensor data payload, authorised and selective access with identity and key management
• Open services for selective access to the data for trusted service providers
• Design and implementation of gateway firmware (secure logging of data and upload of data)

Jan 2012 – Jul 2012 · 6 mos · Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems (ComSys) at RWTH Aachen
• Service Negotiation and Selective Disclosure of Endpoint Information for on-path Middleboxes
• Devise a secure exchange of sensitive end-point information with trusted middleboxes
• Establishment of trust between middleboxes and the end-points
• Focus on "privacy" aspects like unlinkability, minimal disclosure, anonymity and verifiability of end-point information
• Enabling the end-points to make selective-proofs over the information provided

Aug 2009 – Jul 2010 · 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• one-X Portal is an application that runs on a web server connected to the IP Office telephone system. Using a web browser, you can access the one-X Portal and use it to perform actions such as:
• Control your telephone and telephone calls.
• View details of calls and directories of contacts.
• Conferencing.
• Configure settings that affect how your calls are treated by the telephone system.
• It is a browser-based version of Phone Manager, a desktop application that allowed to take control of your Avaya IP Office telephone (5410 / 5420 / 5610 etc.). At Avaya, I was involved with the following,
• Development and integration of Video Conferencing capabilities with OneX-Portal
• Skype and DimDim Integration with OneX Portal
• Application Services framework of OneX-Portal for administration of IP-Office
• Managed support for the installation, upgrade and downgrade of OneX-Portal
• Linux based Installer for OneX Portal
• Specialties: Team work, working across multiple teams, Java, GWT