Work Experience

• Member of Technical Staff, VMware

  Sep 2018 - Present

  • I am working with vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) team of Cloud Management Business Unit(CMBU) in VMware.
  • My day to day tasks involves, implementing various features in the product which are used in monitoring and analytics of virtual and physical networks. I also fix bugs and handle customer escalations involved in various part of the product.
  • I also POC new technology/methods which improved the product. Some of my work was also filed for Patents.
  

• Software Engineer, Adobe Systems

  Jul 2016 - Aug 2018

  • I am primarily working with Adobe Analytics team. More specifically I am working under data migration team of Adobe Analytics.
  • My work is to improve the quality of the migrations, in doing so I wrote several tools (in Python and Node.js to validate and detect the migration errors or presenting PoC for different technologies, which could improve validation process.
  • Also worked on building internal tools which are used in CI and CD.
  

• Open Source Developer, ModSecurity (GSoC)

  May 2016 - Aug 2016

  • ModSecurity is an opensource org. which provides web application firewall. Recently, ModSecurity have been redesigned from the scratch and splitted into cores and connectors.
  • My work was to create a robust connector for ModSecurity in Nodejs, as there aren’t many WAFs available for Nodejs.

• Full Stack Developer Intern, Wishup

  Dec 2015- April 2016

  • I am actively involved in the team which is building real-time chatting dashboard (using sails pubsub support and socket.io).This dashboard handles over +15k active monthly users.
  • The back-end was built using modern MVC framework Sails.js which based on Node.js and dashboard built using Angular.js.

• Open Source Developer, Rspamd (GSoC)

  May 2015 - Aug 2015

  • Rspamd is an opensource org. for spam filtering. It comes up with a web interface which currently doesn’t support encryption at all.
  • My work was to encrypt the controlling messages from it’s web interface. I have implemented cryptobox in JavaScript on the top on tweet-nacl.js and have secured it against some common MiTM attacks such as replay attacks.

Publications

1. [1] M. Ahmad and M. Malik. Design of chaotic neural network based method for cryptographic substitution box. IEEE-Xplore, 2016.
2. [2] A. Chopra, M. Ahmad, and M. Malik. An enhanced modulo based image encryption. IEEE-Xplore, 2015.

Education

• Masters in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

  2020

  GPA: 4.0/4.0
  Online Masters in Computer Science (OMSCS), specialization in Machine Learning. Completed Courses:
  - Deep Learning (CS-7643)
  - Info Sec Lab Binexp (CS 6265)
  - Intro to Information Security (CS 6035)
  - Artificial Intelligence (CS 6601)
  - Big Data Analytics for Healthcare (CSE 6250)
  - Reinforcement Learning (CS 7642)
  - Machine Learning (CS 7641)
  - Machine Learning for Trading (CS 7646)
  - Graduate Algorithms (CS 8803 GA)
  - Introduction to High Performance Computing (CSE-6220)
  

• Advanced Computer Security Certificate, Stanford University

  2016-2017

  Online courses undertaken for this Certificate:
  - XACS101 - Software Security Foundations
  - XACS255 - Network Security
  - XACS215 - Mobile Security
  - XACS130 - Using Cryptography Correctly
  - XACS131 - Writing Secure Code
  - XACS133 - Exploiting and Protecting Web Applications

• B.Tech in Computer Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia

  2012-2016

  CGPA: 8.77/10.0