● Lead the planning, building, and configuration of cloud systems at scale supporting researchers● Set standards for monitoring and maintaining the health and integrity of these cloud systems including upgrading and patching● Design and implement robust and secure IT solutions within a fast-paced research environment, including systems that meet regulated data-compliant standards● Define and track performance metrics to ensure efficient current and future use of IT resources● Consult to and collaborate with researchers and other key IT (e.g. network and security) and DataCenter partners in a timely manner● Build and maintain relationships with external vendor technicians and engineers● Collaborate and may provide leadership with other systems engineers within the research computing ecosystem● Contribute best practices documentation, present at conferences, or publish in peer-reviewed journals● Lead trainings on specific areas on cloud engineering for research● Abide by and follow the Harvard University IT technical standards, policies and Code of Conduct

- Advise a wide range of researchers through support requests (i.e. email, ticketing systems, chats) and in person consultations during office hours- Build deep understanding with specific research activities through regular engagements- Facilitate the design, debugging, and automating/scripting of complex research workflows alongside researchers- Connect and coordinate interactions between researchers and technology providers- Provide regular communications to systems and software/data professionals- Enhance learning with full awareness of the local and larger research computing and data landscape- Build advanced curriculum and teach workshops for researchers to maximize their use of Research Computing- Abide by and follow the Harvard University IT technical standards, policies and Code of Conduct

Scientific Applications Development (60%): -Participates in product development lifecycle, documents functional & technical requirements. -Analyzes high-level system specifications, system requirements & use cases. Converts that information into low-level specifications & detailed system design plan. -Meets application development standards for programming, design, performance, quality, & security. -Assists in the design & modeling of front-end application & the Database Systems (Relational or Non-Relational) back-end schema, including the assurance of appropriate technology controls. -Focuses on interactive application interface implementation that enables users to validate & submit data, provide complex computational processing. Maintenance & Support (20%): -Developing & presenting technical training material & web-based technical documentation for design decisions, estimating assumptions, code modules, & performance metrics. -Oversees the researching, writing, & editing of documentation & technical requirements, including evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals, recommendations, & reports. -Ensures timely system support, updates & on-going maintenance of applications & online services. Evaluation & Testing (10%): -Assists in making recommendations for future development, releases, & enhancements. -Evaluate various technologies (past & present) for the development of hardware, software, & new tools. -Ensure quality control through code review, testing & debugging software for accuracy, completeness, & system integrity. Cybersecurity (10%): -Provides hardware, user & application level authentication, & authorization, including multi-factor validation, verification, Federation, & identity/access management. -Implements modern web authentication methods such as XACML, SAML, OAuth2, Shibboleth, & LDAP directory server administration. -Assists in conducting information security assessments & risk analysis of computing environment.

• OpenDaylight is a Linux Foundation - backed initiative that aims to create a community-driven, open source controller framework standard code and blueprints to help accelerate adoption of Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV).• A recognition that is given for my expertise, leadership and willingness to share my knowledge for the betterment and growth of the community.• An active member in ODL community since 2013.

• Architect software and infrastructure for different projects including the use of third party services, the Gen3 platform and microservices.• Provide support and management of multiple AWS accounts including IAM user management, security configuration, VPC setup, EKS cluster administration.• Establish and ensure good security practices using KMS, AWS Secrets Manager, GitHub, and application code.• Team coordination, planning and help establish a requirements gathering process for different data intensive projects in parallel.

• Designed and setup SDN lab at BSU to benchmark, test and validate research in SDN & NFV.• Researched and developed some use cases, modules and test scripts for SDN Security. • Automated Testing of a Software-Defined Firewall where I developed an automation script based on Python to test/analyse functionality and security of Floodlight Firewall module.• Testing of OpenDaylight SDN controller to detect potential security vulnerability in its source code.• Published a Conference Paper on "Model-Based Testing of SDN Firewalls: A Case Study". 2015 Second International Conference on Trustworthy Systems and Their Applications, 81-88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSA.2015.22 • I proposed, designed, implemented and tested a noble and secure software design architecture that models and handles complex software features such as Delegation of Authority, Separation of Duties & pre/ post Obligations. For this I developed a secure and scalable Java based user interactive dynamic web application named as Grant Proposal Workflow Management System (GPMS) that uses fine-grained Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) techniques and technologies such as NoSQL database i.e. MongoDB, Java, RESTful APIs, jQuery, Javascript, CSS3, XACMl, XML, XPath, XSLT etc. http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/icur/2015/Poster_Session/148/• During Cloud Computing research I designed, developed and deployed a dynamic social networking application in cloud environment using secure heterogeneous cloud services based on scalable Java Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), load balancer i.e. HAProxy with full capability of resource metering and monitoring.

• Improved and maintained over many projects of .NET Department – Core and Customization tasks of software and database client-applications.• Need to remove blockers for our team, answer questions/attend discussions and maintain communication between PMO, management, requirement analysts, business analysts etc. • Performed Research and Development (RND) to evaluate a variety of software products and tools to integrate with on going workflow development systems.• Need to prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of all web applications.• Communicate and demonstrate the solutions with customers to facilitate the marketing and support team. • Worked with an enthusiastic team of 8 to build and ship a powerful & flexible open sourced eCommerce Web framework, AspxCommerce on top of Microsoft’s ASP.NET technologies.• Developed community-driven Content Management System (CMS) branded as SageFrame which was voted as one of the best budget CMS for 2012 and was also awarded as Winner of the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Open Source .NET CMS by CMSCritic.• Promoted from Senior Developer to Team Lead, which involved increased responsibilities and skills.• Able to get certified the company as one of the Red Herring Top 100 IT Companies in Asia for its quality of services, the finest development practice & customer-centric products.• Involved in product development, project management, weekly meetings, code review, code optimization, performance tuning, code integration, technical documentations, pair programming, testing, maintenance, bug fixing using SDLC process & Agile methodologies.

• Developed a Windows mobile application that allows placing an order in restaurants through SMS, and automatically scheduling and printing the orders on real-time.• Contributed on scalable and modular GUI & database design for an interactive web portal.