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Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Secure Devops Development* Design and build micro-services to support token-based authentication for both authentication and authorization (AuthN/AuththZ) protect API resources* Application Health and Status checking enforced using Hashicorp Consul as configuration supplied from Consul K/V Store* Utilize Hashicorp Vault for secrets management (KV v1 and v2), Certificate Creation (PKI), AWS Secrets Engine (STS IAM Short-Lived Tokens), K8S Secrets Engine* Chief Architect/Author of Product Security's helm charts for prodsec services* Produce and maintain Product Security's Python-based wheel packages; manage these wheels in artifactory and ensure dependency management through Poetry lock systems* Architect and oversee Python queueing systems (rabbitmq) and workers (celery) for prodsec's largest internal projectSecure Devops Deployments* Architect and deploy development pipelines utilizing technologies such as Gitlab CI/CD, Hashicorp Vault for secrets management* Author, maintain, and execute Ansible scripts to maintain large collection of VMs required to run Product Security Applications for on-prem deployments* Manage AWS Direct-Connect based Kubernetes (k8s) cluster by leveraging AWS CNI Plugin, enabling efficient usage of "on-prem" IP space and preventing IP Exhaustion* Author and maintain Terraform scripts for auto-deployment of AWS resources* Author and maintain kustomize scripts for flux-based deployments into K8s clusters. Allows for reconciliation and deployment for all secrets, state, and helm charts into EKS clusters* Utilized bitnami sealed secrets controller to allow safe storage of encrypted K8s secrets at rest utilizing GITOPS practices* Deploy and maintain Anchore Container image scanning for NGC (nvcr.io) container registry * Manage and deployed Blackduck Hub instance, in addition to all SAML based access to hub instance* Responsible for integrating SAML/OAUTH/OIDC into all vendor applications in use by Product Security Tools team

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Author Linux Kernel patches for submission upstream into the mainline Linux kernel for USB and DMA related changes.• Use GIT for source control in addition to using GITHUB and GERRIT for internal code reviews.• Manage responsibilities using JIRA tracking system.• Work with ARM Holdings Engineers to evaluate new features of the architecture (e.g., Pointer Authentication ARMv8.2).• Build and port root file systems (rootfs) ranging from buildroot, redhat, canonical ubuntu, fedora, and OpenSuse to support customers of Centriq servers.• Develop custom Linux Drivers to support SOC bringup functionality (e.g., Error Detection and Reporting. • Integrate support for kernel drivers incorporating custom components from Qualcomm caches, memory, buses, coherency links, and CPU design.• Develop scripts and build tools to support the System on a Chip (SOC) verification in order to automate testing with scripts written in Python, Go (golang), and Trace32 CMM (JTAG).• Responsible for identifying and debugging dozens of hardware design bugs by creating custom kernels and userspace applications. Use JTAG debugger to triage issues and expose incorrect functionality to hardware designers.• Produced bootloader scripts and binaries required to bring up new hardware both in pre-silicon development (e.g., emulation / simulation) and post-silicon verification.• Create snap packages for the snappy package distribution model (i.e. snapd).• Create Docker images and containers to support automated Linux testing to regress hardware bugs.• Create containerized RESTFUL services in docker and LXC to communicate with Centriq endpoints.• Create utilities in go that consume boltdb (nosql) custom key/value databases combined with Google's protobuf implementation to serialize/deserialize objects stored in DB.• Port the Linux kernel, from v3.0-v4.16, including the first 64-bit kernel on Qualcomm ARMv8 CPUs.• Port uBoot and Little Kernel (Android's bootloader) for new mobile platforms.

Mclean, Va, Us

Operating System and Userspace development to support security research and reverse-engineering of both hardware and software. Manage teams ranging from two to eight developers. Produce software solutions in rapid prototyping style environment.• Reverse engineer binary user-space applications, kernels, bootloaders, and firmware to identify security vulnerabilities with tools such as IDA Pro, GNU Tools.• Develop proof of concept exploits to demonstrate system weaknesses. Provide solutions to harden target.• Create utilities written in C, Python, and Java to unpack and repack firmware, kernel images, and undocumented archives.• Develop network-based, Object Oriented (OO) frameworks (python, C, JAVA) to support communication with multiple embedded devices via multiple transport mechanisms (HTTP, HTTPS, and Custom UDP protocols).• Generate cross-compiler toolchains and support tools to aid in the development for ARM, MIPS, and PPC embedded devices.• Develop applications in C, C++, and in Assembly (ARM, MIPS) utilizing Unix/POSIX APIs (e.g., BSD sockets, Pthreads, SYSCALLS, etc)

Falls Church, Va, Us

Summer internship as a test engineer for the Aircraft carriers (CVNs) at Newport News Naval Shipyard.

Blacksburg, Va, Us

Worked as a researcher in the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) lab.

Bs, Electrical Engineering

M.S., Electrical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

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