Work Experience
- Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Apr'06-Present, Web Services Security Team
I work on various aspects of Federated Web Services Security and am actively involved in adding support for Web
Services standards for Federated Security such as WS-Federation.
- Software Design Engineer Intern, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Jun'05-Sep'05,
Web Services Security Team
Designed and implemented turnkey deployment use-cases illustrating native support for Federated Security, Custom Security Tokens, and Multi-Factor Authentication in the Web Services Protocol Stack of Microsoft. These were released with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Beta2 SDK.
- Project Associate, Network Systems Lab (NSL), May'02-Sep'04,
Integrated Computing Environment (ICE)
During my time as a researcher at NSL (May'02-Sep'04), I also worked on a challenging project of institution-wide scale and complexity called ICE. I actively participated in developing an action plan for revamping the complete IT infrastructure of IIT Madras; consolidating the existing resources and upgrading to next generation technologies in all spheres of IT-enabled operations of the institute. In addition, I was extensively involved in two sub-projects:
- IglooNet (Wireless Network for IIT Residence Zone): Proposal, Feasibility Analysis, Design, & Cost Evaluation
- ngDataCenter (Next Generation Data Center solution for IIT): Design & Pilot Implementation
- Project Intern, Motorola, Bangalore, May '01-July '01, Bluetooth Networking Group
Bluetooth Service Stack Design and Development
- Implemented Device Discovery & Service Discovery Protocols in a Bluetooth device
- Implemented Business Card Exchange Application over Bluetooth Protocol Stack