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Staff Software Engineer & Tech lead for Service Discovery @Meta (in Core Infrastructure)

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Software Engineer

Microsoft

Shipped Windows 10 Photos app ( C++ )
- Designed and implemented image analysis pipeline. This pipeline brings together various imaging algorithms together and also supports versioning.
- Performance improvements of as much as 4x across various components of the analysis pipeline.
- Solely architected the app to support multiple windows in the Photos app.
- Integrated edit pipeline from windows 8.1 Photo editor into the viewer to show users enhanced version of their photos.
- Created an internal first party API to allow other apps to use the crop control in the Photos app.
- Worked with multiple teams in windows platform to get new features added to improve Photos app. 
- Mentored junior developers.
- Connected OneDrive album experience with Photos app album experience allowing users to manage or publish albums to OneDrive.
- Added album share so that users can share their favorite albums with friends and family.
- Working on getting more features in for the Photos app.

Software Development Engineer II

Shipped windows raw codec as part of windows update on windows 8.
- Performance improvements on arm 
- Deployment schema for windows update.

Photo Editor - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, Direct2D, SIMD, XAML, PPL)
- Core member for the design of image editing effect pipeline, rending engine and a variety of edit features.
- Added the direct2d rendering engine in the photo editor.
- Performance improvements for edit features using vectorization and multi core programming.
- Ensured 30FPS on most devices.
- Added image straighten, blemish removal + local area pixel fix engine, revamped crop & selective focus and other contributions

Video Trim - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, XAML, PPL)
- Implemented the complete video trim feature for the photos app.

Camera - Windows 8.1 Camera App ( C++ 11, PPL, XAML)
- Improved startup performance by more than 50%
- Improved performance of other core scenarios by significant amount.
- Feature contributions.

Stood up a TFS + git based build system for the team.

Software Development Engineer

Georgia Institute of Technology

Worked on web applications for marketing studies. (Php, MySQL)

Web Developer

Added Auto Collage in Windows Photo gallery. (C++, COM)

Software Development Intern

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- Designed & built multiple systems with critical focus on scalability & reliability. 
- Solved many cross team & organization misalignments with my inter-personal skills. 

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Realm Labs

Building the next generation of Authentication, Authorization, and Audit platforms for enterprises to secure AI applications.

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  * Building AI applications in your company (RAG, Agents)
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Cofounder and Head of Engineering

Packt

Authored pragmatic security book: The Complete Guide to Defense in Depth

Author

Tola Capital

Advisor

Apple

* Led modernization of Authorization framework for ultra-large training platform (~500 PB per mo) to improve security and performance (latency)
* Led Zero Trust adoption across AIML training infrastructure
* Partnered with external organizations to secure AI use cases (including health, payment, and maps)
* Led penetration testing and partnered with first and third parties to assess the security of the Siri training pipeline
* Developed and led the organization (>500 FTEs) for HIPAA and PCI certification for AIML
* Led mitigation of 3 industry-wide zero-days and aligned the organization for reducing future exposure (partnered with 10+ teams)
* Participated in Apple-wide Supply Chain security effort to create roadmaps for the company (>100,000 developers)

Security Leader AIML

Google

* Led the Chrome Infra Security team focused on Insider Risk and Supply Chain Security (TL)
* Contributed to and led the implementation of SLSA at Google by launching them in Chrome (Engineering Excellence Award Winner)
* Led Security Reviews at Chrome Infra by performing 100+ reviews & training others
* Security PoC for multiple org-wide policies
* SME Lead for Google Cyber Security Career Certificate program and helped launch the product
* Contributed to Project Shield in multiple critical customer-facing issues
* Python readability reviewer for Google codebase (performed 1000+ code reviews)

Tech Lead - Software Engineer (Security)

Proofpoint

* Performed penetration tests on production microservices
* Worked with developers to go through the entire lifecycle of development
* Collaborated to create a security culture around Software Deevelopment

Senior Security Engineer - Penetration Tester

Credit Karma

* Led the automation effort here in Credit Karma Infrastructure Security team
* Worked with different SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation & Response) platforms including Phantom, Demisto
* Architected & deployed Demisto in Credit Karma ecosystem in a semi-air-gapped environment with HA mode
* Built a process from coming up with a use case to fully automating it
* Built an end-to-end repeatable process for regular audits of software installed in a corporate environment to identify the presence of any vulnerabilities/risks

Security Engineer

Perfit Inc.

Perfit Inc. is a LA based start-up. My responsibility includes overseeing every technological details implemented/ planned to be implemented.

Security Architect

Amgen

•	Contributed to build the baseline technical security controls that will support different project teams enterprise-wide
•       Lead the Cloud Security Work Group to ensure enforcement of proper security controls with various CSPs.
•	Automated  existing information security processes working with security monitoring team
•	Contributed and documented to the assessment and implementation of Cloud Access Security Broker solution
•	Developed Privacy Policy for Global Data Lake to centralize healthcare/pharmaceutical data of Amgen product users

Information Security Grad Intern

Mentor Graphics

Debugged more than 70% of existing issues in upcoming Simulation Software for its authenticity and reliability using Shell Scripting, Tcl/Tk, Verilog
Prepared a new suite of automated testing, and implemented 6 out of 9 proposed

Software Developer Intern

Leader @  Apple AIML | Former Tech Lead at Google | Helping spread Leadership Awareness in Software Engineering | Author at Leadership Letters Newsletter - subscribe now!

- Founder working on securing AI, with AI
- Experienced Security Leader solving frontier security problems
- AI Security researcher, securing large-scale data for Apple AIML
- Innovator and Co-developer for SLSA at Google (Chrome)
- Cybersecurity author of best-seller on Amazon
- Evangelist for making security accessible, no security theatre
- Advisor for upcoming security startups
- Ex-Google, Ex-Apple, Ex- Credit Karma

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