University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Course Assistant - CS222, CS461 | Aug 2024 - May 2025

  • — Mentored multiple teams of students with their semester-wide software projects including code reviews, programming, debugging and design.
  • — Holding office hours to help with the course's security exploit project, dealing with Application vulnerabilites (buffer overflows, control-flow hijacking, ROP), Web (SQL Injections, CSRF, XSS), Cryptographic and Network attacks (MITM, ARP Poisioning, Mitnick Attack).

Logmein / GoTo

Senior Engineer | July 2019 - Nov 2023

  • — Architected and deployed cloud-native applications across AWS, OpenStack, and Oracle Cloud, including designing cross-cloud solutions for over 20+ services for GoToMeeting’s backend application.
  • — Engineered and maintained code for DNS automation, real-time monitoring, and cross-cloud migration, and disaster recovery frameworks.
  • — On-call for 3 major products spanning 50+ services, debugging critical production issues, networking failures, and infrastructure outages for 4+ years.
  • — Deployed a cloud security monitoring tool across multiple AWS accounts and Oracle Cloud, incorporating compliance scanning and real-time alerting. This reduced compliance violations and increased threat detection.
  • — Optimized AWS resource usage with FinOps teams, cutting costs by $100K+ annually through automated orphaned resource shutdowns.

Center for Cloud Computing and Big Data

Student Researcher | Aug 2017 - Sept 2018

  • — Explored the ways in which storage could bottleneck big data applications.
  • — Analysed the performance of a Hadoop cluster on SSD and HDD storage, using various benchmark tests.

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