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• Master of Science (CGPA: 3.9) Computer Science, University of Washington, United States, Sep 2021 - June 2023
• Master of Science Intelligent Systems, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Apr 2016 - Oct 2018
• Bachelor of Engineering Information Science and Engineering, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, India, Aug 2009 - Jun 2013

Security Engineer Certus Cybersecurity, Amazon Offesive Security Team, September 2022 - Now

• Independently assessed the security posture of over 10 applications/services before their deployment by AWS, identifying more than 12 high-impact issues.
• Assessing the software security posture and conducting penetration testing for Amazon retail, AWS, Meta, and Adobe's new applications and services, while working alongside their security teams.
• Developed a service tool for ScoutSuite to support AWS's IoT Core service.
• Developing an LLM security evaluation tool.

Graduate Research Assistant University of Washington, Computing and Software Systems, June 2022 - September 2022

• Built Infrastructure and tools to enhance Canvas Learning Management System for faculty and students.
• Led a team of five using DevOps practices and agile methods.

Graduate Research Assistant University of Washington, Computing and Software Systems, Dec 2021 - June 2022

• Researched the current medical IoT Imaging ecosystem to explore security and privacy concerns.

• Built a novel software for IoT medical ecosystem to recognize images using Deep Learning, anonymize the image metadata and apply a security solution based on the category of image before it is exposed to the internet.

Software Engineer - Freelance KBD Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, Aug 2020 - Aug 2021

• Modernized employee shift management system.
• Added insight into the workforce coming into each shift. Moved the data into reliable AWS services such as DynamoDB, S3 and RDS.
• Created android application for employees to report leaves for the data to remain as real-time/current as possible.

Software Engineer Capgemini, Frankfurt, Jan 2019 - May 2019

• Built a common communication platform using WebMethods, a java-based enterprise application integration framework, to enable data sharing and collaboration across multiple banks.

Software Engineer Intern Capgemini, Frankfurt, Oct 2018 - Dec 2018

• Developed a prototype using Ethereum smart contracts for housing loans. This prototype became a part of the official Capgemini Innovation documentation to be used for future banking clients.

Associate Technical Solutions Engineer Pegasystems Worldwide India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, Mar 2014 - Feb 2016

• Developed a Proof of Concept in which a work object followed a dynamic path, based on business rules. Did this as a part of a scrum-based lean agile team of 3 using Pega 7 automation, a Business Process Management product. Resulted in Wells Fargo backbone upgrading and a license support sale worth more than $1 million.
• Evaluated Pega's 2016 release of Process Commander and provided 30+ recommendations for back-end which were included in future releases. Resolved 100+ technical issues for clients such as AIG, Cisco, and CVS.

Accelerated Image Restoration using CUDA High Performance Computing, University of Washington

Developed and designed a performant filter to deblur images. Used C++ and CUDA to write highly parallelized versions of out-of-box OpenCV methods which proved to be 8 times more performant. Compared the accuracy of both parallel and sequential versions of the code using standard Computer Vision methodologies (PSNR and MSE Values). GitHub link here

Bringing Semantics to IoT: About IoT Ontologies and their application Master Thesis, Cyber-Physical Systems, Technical University of Kaiserslautern

Researched how different IoT platforms can be mapped over one another, to create a singular unified compliant network of things. Developed a communication channel between Google assistant, OpenHAB and Vicinity Ontology for creating a unified IoT platform.

Building a Map of Traffic Signs Augmented Vision, DFKI (German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence)

Developed software to collect geographic coordinates and images of the complete road infrastructure of a city with python. Further, developed and used hybrid hashing techniques to eliminate duplicate images and coordinates. Developed software for road sign recognition using a cascade of classical computer vision algorithms to correctly classify 77% of road signs in Luxembourg city.

Developing an Open-Source Framework for Social Impact: The "Luna App" Open-Source Initiative, University of Washington (Capstone)

I am developing an open-source framework, "Luna App", that converts presentation slides into a mobile application for non-technical users to create awareness about social causes. I am working with Peace Corps volunteers to raise awareness about prenatal and postnatal health among indigenous communities in South American countries using "Luna App" framework.

• Serving as President of International Club at University of Washington.
• Qualified for Google-Code Jam 2018
• Certified System Architect” for PRPC (PegaRULES Process Commander) v6.2SP2.
• “Best Project Award” and “Co-curricular Achiever’s Award”– Final Year Engineering Project. (amongst 400 teams)

SKILLS & TOOLS USED: Java, Python, C, C++, HTML5, CSS3, XML, Git, CUDA, EC2, Flutter Mobile, AWS(DynamoDB, Cognito,S3, Elastic Beanstalk), Cloud, Azure DevOps, Angular, ReactJS, MySQL, Cassandra, REST API, Linux, Windows.