Tarun Ramesh Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designation: Member of Technical StaffRole: Solution Architect/Technical ArchitectDesigned, developed and deployed a system to derive live Threat Analysis with actionable information by triaging seemingly unconnected observations made by the Shadowplex Deception ecosystem- Analysed the product market gap; and designed and deployed a solution to close it with a team of three- Designed plugin based architecture: the platform focuses on plugin execution and collating the output; the plugins are focused purely on tactical domain knowledge- Designed to analyse threats based on knowledge of malware behaviour instead of relying on signatures- Designed to run multiple instances at web-scale: analyses from all instances automatically collated by the platform- Reduced analysis effort for Incident Response teams by 80% (based on results from Red Team exercises)- Automated just-in-time response actions like endpoint forensics and containmentDesigned and developed a fully-automated memory forensic analysis tool that looks for behavioural patterns, not signatures- Designed to automatically surface the artefact deemed the most "suspicious": the user experience does not depend on expert knowledge- Designed a flexible data format for the UI to consume: any change in the analysis data does not require a UI change- Designed to run multiple instances at web-scale- Researched academic journals to understand how to detect hidden code execution from x86_64 stack behaviour and instruction set- Reduced the effort to analyse a 16GB memory image from more than five hours to under 30 minutesTransformed the Linux Host Intrusion Detection System from a proof-of-concept to a commercial grade application- Analysed the gaps in the proof-of-concept and researched available libraries to close it- Added the ability to run on any Linux distribution with systemd

Bengaluru Area, India

Designation: Senior Lead EngineerRole: Solution design/Team leadDesigned and developed a high-availability PPPoE communication link between Infinera and Transmode network equipment - Designed to work out-of-the-box with field deployed Transmode equipment- Developed a high-availability PPPoE network driver on QNX immune to packet drops during link setup and high data rates interfering with control packets- Provided the ability to run a common management plane across both Infinera and Transmode products helping make the acquisition of Transmode a success- Awarded a bonus with the citation, “Tarun has done exemplary work as Technical lead and owner … significant challenges in interoperating with TM … tweaking the protocols to make it reliably work in all scenarios. … troubleshooting issues beyond geographical boundaries…”Designed and developed a high-availability control channel to carry data encryption control information with protection switching- Led a team of three to build and test this feature- Awarded two bonuses with the citations, “In recognition of your significant contribution to Gen 4 technology and related product developments… We greatly appreciate your efforts to help Infinera deliver … with great quality as always!”; and “... High quality, reliable design and UT, resourceful, superb mentor for team members …”

Bangalore

Designation: Senior Member of Technical Staff – IIRole: Solution design/Independent contributorDesigned and developed an ability to use third party identity providers via OAuth for captive portal authentication- A feature demanded by many customers- Designed the ability for a wireless device to access only the identity provider on the internet before authenticationAdded support for IPv6 in the wireless device registry and QoS manager with the same level of functionality as IPv4- Adapted the wireless device registry to store multiple IP addresses per client- Ensured IPv6 multicast, broadcast and captive portal traffic could be controlled with the same precision as IPv4 traffic.Developed an individual Access Point licensing platform powered by FlexLM

Bangalore

Designation: R & D EngineerRole: Regression automation/Individual contributorAdapted the automation suite to a new user interface similar to Cisco CLI- Originally built to use HTTP requests to configure and test network equipment- Developed a framework to automatically translate all HTTP requests to CLI commands, and to translate the output into a format readable by existing scripts- Provided the ability to re-use all previous tests without any changes.Migrated the existing integration with Spirent from Tcl to Perl- Developed a new mechanism handling for Spirent errors: the errors were logged and the remaining tests continued

Noida Area, India

Designation: Associate Engineering (Software Development)Role: Individual contributorAwarded the “Individual Excellence Award” with the citation: “Tarun is extremely dedicated towards his work and is open to take up any assignment, no matter how easy/complex/boring/interesting … His managers have never come across a situation when he has failed to meet his commitments…”