About me
Avid coder with 20+ years of professional experience in IP Networks and Transport optimization domain. I have worked and contributed to various network stacks including Linux Kernel, LWIP, Micro IP. Have several high-value IPRs, contributed to IETF working groups and several open sources in the domain.
Professional experience working in:
- Security: Network and System’s security. Cloud and Kubernetes security, Workload Identity Solution, SPIFFE Framework
- Kubernetes, Dockers, Containers, extensively used EKS (Elastic k8s engine), GKE (Google K8s engine).
- Transport Optimization: QUIC/TCP Transport, Congestion and Flow Control optimizations
- IoT Networks: LoWPANs, BLE, PLC, IP Compression, Founder of Whitefield-Framework, Deployed Smart Grid Solutions, High Value IPRs/Stds/Publications in last-mile constrained Mesh networks. NS3/Omnet++/Castalia/Cooja simulation expertise.
- Machine Learning: Search Optimized Adaboost for object detection. Algorithms/Publications in Computer Vision
- Video Streaming: Worked on DASH, HLS optimization with coupled-transport. Implemented H264 based transrating solutions. Have high value IPRs and did corresponding implementations for live streaming.
My Open Source Work
- Whitefield-Framework (Founder/Lead Author): Last-Mile Realistic Wireless Simulation Framework
- RPL Extensions for Scapy PR
- Whitefield Platform support in Contiki-ng
- Whitefield Platform support in RIOT-OS
- Whitefield Platform support in Contiki
- UDP Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO) for lsquic PR
- Android Support for lsquic
- Cilium contributions
- Others
My IETF Standards Work
- Optimized Route Invalidation for RPL
- Capabilities Handling for RPL
- Mode Of Operation Extension for RPL
- RPL Design Issues
- Root ACK mechanism for RPL
- Neighbor Cache Management in Multihop low-power networks
- Reducing Control Overhead by Eliding RPL Options
- DAO-Projection
- Optimizing ACK mechanism for QUIC
- Advancing ACKing for TCP
My Publications
Updated on LinkedIn page
My IPRs
Updated on LinkedIn page
Miscellaneous:
- May 2025, CNCF Webinar, Runtime Security for Agentic AI, YouTube
- Mar 2025, AccuKnox Webinar, Zero Trust 5G Deployments - Nephio Perspective, YouTube
- Dec 2024, Kubecon India, SPIFFE for large-scale telco automation: A Nephio Rationale, YouTube, Slides
- Apr 2024, ONE Summit, Intent Driven Security Automation for Telco/5G security, Youtube
- Nephio India Meetup Apr 2024, Nephio: Doing security the scalable way Youtube
- Kubeday India Nov 2023, Securing Secrets in K8s Environments Slides YouTube
- Presentation to ONAP Security Committee Oct 2023 Advanced Security Primitives for 5G security Meeting Notes Slides
- Nephio Security Charter
- K8s Community Day, Bengaluru 2023, Runtime Security: Challenges and Solution Space Youtube
- Kubecon Cloud Security Con Oct 2022 Securing K8s Pods from within: A Runtime Approach
- Defending Kubernetes Clusters with KubeArmor
- Deep Dive RPL - Packet Trace Reading
- KubeArmor presentation to CNCF TAG-Security Group
- KubeArmor/Accuknox OpenSource Office Hours
- Kubecon Production Identity Day Oct 2021 SPIFFE with Cilium
- RIOT Summit 2020 slides Youtube
- Linux Kernel: Improved syscall batching for network IO, Netdev 0x13 Youtube, Slides/Paper
- IoT 6lo/RPL integration with Linux Kernel, Netdev 0x13 Youtube, Slides
- Presenting NPDAO solution, IETF-96 Youtube
- Neighbor Cache Mgmt Policy for 6Lo, IETF-97 Youtube
- 6lo WG Design Team member: Fragment Forwarding for 6loWPAN Slides
- IETF-103: Multihop 6lo fragment forwarding performance report Slides, Youtube, Data
- Protocol compression in IoT, RFCsWeLove Youtube
- A deep dive into Public Blockchain, IIM Bangalore Link
- State of MultiPath Transports, RFCsWeLove: Youtube
- IoT and Embedded OSes, Open Source India Youtube
- Columbia DevOps Meetup - Introducing KubeArmor, Youtube
My Articles
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