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Hello , I am a software engineer having 8 years of experience in embedded domain and 7 years of professional experience in the networking (L2, L3, L4, L5) and cyber security domain. Presently working on development of routers, switches and industrial firewalls with deep packet inspection (DPI) protocols such as Modbus, DNP3, OPC, IEC104, Goose. SCADA Industrial automation Configuration protocols: SNMP, net-conf Security: DOS protection Below are the area of expertise: 1. Board bringup and writing operating system for bare metal. (BIOS, SPL, u-boot, upstart, Kernel and user space) 1. Device driver development and linux kernel development to adapt for several devices 2. Implemented Linux firewall using the iptables, ebtables, nft tables. 3. Open source software modifications for implementing routing protocols like VRRP (keepalived), static routing and OSPF (quagga). 4. Experienced with several types of Microcontroller and Microprocessors such as Raspberry Pi, Arduino, 8051, 8085, 8086 5. Worked on different architectures x86, powerpc (ppc), ARM, MIPS7 6. Simulation of hardwared on virtual environment using qemu and virtual machines 7. Establishing secure VPN tunnels : strongswan, openvpn 8. Kernel upgrade for linux based firewall 9. High availability implementation 10. FOSS compliant product development 11. Vulnerability assessment for opensource products 12. Penetration Testing, and security testing tools (Nessus, Codenomicon, Achilles, Silvercreek) 13. Automated testing using python scripting Operating systems: Linux (ubuntu, Kali, fedora etc), vxworks, windows Debugging and tools: qemu, gdb, gns3, VM, docker, GIT Languages: C/C++, Python, Assembly