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Shreya Arun Naik

Summary

Detail-oriented and skilled software development professional offering advanced knowledge of in-demand programming languages. Background writing code and developing systems for computer networks and security applications.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Co-lead

Wat.ai, Cybersecurity University Of Waterloo
09.2023 - Current
  • Designing bio-inspired AI-based intrusion prevention system for IoT environments
  • Leading feature importance analysis for efficient training of models
  • Mentoring junior team members, providing guidance on IoT security, data analysis, professional development and career growth opportunities.

Software Engineer II

Cisco India
11.2021 - 06.2022
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for 3 major releases of Cisco's Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) firewall
  • Optimized and refactored firewall's TLS module design to achieve a 40% performance gain
  • Demonstrated Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) to evaluate effectiveness of innovative projects
  • Debugged customer issues live in production environments
  • Mentored and managed automation infrastructure migration project for 4 months
  • Conducted thorough code reviews to identify potential areas for improvement, ultimately enhancing code quality across all projects handled by the team.

Software Engineer I

Cisco India
08.2020 - 10.2021
  • Developed and maintained TLS-Proxy module of Cisco's nextgen firewall, FTD
  • Proactively identified security vulnerabilities in firewall's TLS module, implementing necessary measures to mitigate risks
  • Designed robust testing frameworks to validate functionality and ensure a high level of quality assurance
  • Refactored legacy codebase for improved maintainability, paving the way for easier future updates

Spring Intern

Cisco India
01.2020 - 06.2020
  • Integrated Border Gateway Protocol for layer 2 address families to facilitate Virtual Extensible LAN connections on Cisco's Adaptive Security Appliances
  • Demonstrated adaptability by quickly learning new software programs and incorporating them into daily tasks
  • Efficiently collaborated with cross-functional teams through frequent sprint cycles and agile methodologies

Summer Intern

Cisco India
06.2019 - 07.2019
  • Optimized deployment time and space utilization of access control lists on Cisco's FTD devices
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to complete projects on time and within budget constraints

Education

Master of Mathematics, Computer Science -

University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON
06.2024

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science

JSS Science And Technology University
08.2020

Skills

  • Programming: Python, C, Javascript, Go
  • ML & Data Science: NumPy, Pandas, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, PySpark
  • Web Development: HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL
  • Computer Networks: Tor, P4 Programming, Network Automation, Cisco-IOS, Parsers, AWS, SDN, Socket Programming, Traffic Generators (IXIA)
  • Others: Git, Perforce, Linux, GNU Debugger, PySpark, Agile Concepts

Publications

WPES 2023 - A First Look at Generating Website Fingerprinting Attacks via Neural Architecture Search

Awards

2019 First Place - OnLoad 36h hackathon 

2018 Best Women Powered Hack - Major League Hacking

Projects

Recispice: TinyVGG model for food image classification, 2023

Website Fingerprinting on Programmable Switches, 2023

RomIT: Statistical security analysis of romanized passphrases, 2023

Hawkeye, An internet traffic monitoring system, 2020

Internet Traffic Classification with Classical Machine Learning, 2019

Timeline

Co-lead

Wat.ai, Cybersecurity University Of Waterloo
09.2023 - Current

Software Engineer II

Cisco India
11.2021 - 06.2022

Software Engineer I

Cisco India
08.2020 - 10.2021

Spring Intern

Cisco India
01.2020 - 06.2020

Summer Intern

Cisco India
06.2019 - 07.2019

Master of Mathematics, Computer Science -

University of Waterloo

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science

JSS Science And Technology University

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