I am an Engineering Manager in Cisco's Security Business Group (SBG) working on the Secure Firewall Management Center. My team builds software for Authentication, Authorization and Auditing, Network & System Configuration Management, REST API Framework, and Cloud Services Integration.
I have worked in software development for over a decade. Additionally, I worked in academic and non-academic research organizations doing Cybersecurity research for another seven years.
I have led software delivery in AAA, SAML SSO, REST API, Cloud delivered Firewall Management, Product Security baseline, Software Compliance standardization and more. I have experience working on various areas of Cybersecurity software starting from the development and delivery of solutions like Single Sign-On, Multi-Factor Authentication, External Authentication to fixing security vulnerabilities disclosed via MITRE Corporation's CVEs, implementing firewall technologies using modern cloud computing infrastructures like Docker and Kubernetes.
Given my long background of leading multiple software development teams, I am interested in positions where I lead a larger organization towards their product delivery goals. This maybe as a Director of Engineering or Senior Engineering Manager. Due to my research and industry experience, I would best fit in a Cybersecurity domain, but I am open to working in other domains as well.
I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2017. My dissertation topic was "Context-dependent privacy and security management on mobile devices". During this time I did research internships at Samsung, Apple, and Symantec.
From 2007 to 2010, I worked as a Software Engineer performing design and development of application programming interfaces to be used by client systems to manage backend databases, with Tata Consultancy Services, India. I graduated in 2007 with a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology with honors from Jadavpur University, India.
