Kartik CDS

Cto & Co-Founder

WideField Security · San Francisco Bay Area

Present

WideField Security helps enterprises combat identity attacks by detecting, remediating, and preventing threats across SaaS, cloud, and on-prem environments. Founded by cybersecurity veterans behind category-defining innovations in SASE, anti-phishing, and anti-malware, WideField is shaping the future of identity security.

Software Architect

Zscaler · Greater Seattle Area

5G - Emerging Technologies

Founding Architect

Stealth Startup · Los Gatos, California, United States

Architect

Netskope · San Francisco Bay Area

- Responsible for architecting, building and owning the management plane architecture, using modern cloud technologies like Kubernetes, Pulsar, Kafka, ClickHouse, Mongo etc. - Engineering Architect for taking the entire Netskope product through FedRamp Certification. - Responsible for architecting the Production layout and scaling. - Architect for the complete Auth story of Netskope Product (SAML, WS-Fed, OAuth, IdP Integrations with OneLogin, Okta, PingIdentity etc.)

Principal Engineer

Netskope

Senior Staff Engineer

Netskope

Staff Engineer

Netskope

Netskope is the cloud app analytics and policy company that brings IT and the cloud together. Only the Netskope platform provides complete visibility into cloud apps and enforces sophisticated policies to make them safe, compliant, and high performance. With Netskope, people get their favorite cloud apps and the business can move fast, with confidence.

Staff Engineer

Juniper Networks · Bangalore

Project: SSL VPN Product Info: Juniper Networks Secure Access leads the SSL VPN market with a complete range of remote-access appliances. Responsibilities: I am involved in the development and maintenance of the security components. Different venders have different authentication servers, the Juniper SSL-VPN has to have the provision for configuring and communicating with various authentication servers. My role involves • Enabling SSL-VPN to communicate with RSA-ACE, Radius, PKI (Certificates), NIS, SAML 2.0-SSO. • Development and maintenance of the Authentication & Authorization flow for the product. • Responsible for reviewing other component’s deliverables. • Contact point for AAA for the product. • Analysing, fixing Web Security related issues [XSS, XSRF..] for AAA. • Responsible for the Role, Realm and Policy framework of the product.

Member of Technical Staff

Juniper Networks

Senior Software Engineer

Kodiak Networks · Bangalore

Project: Real Time Exchange (RTX) Product Info: Kodiak’s Real Time Exchange (RTX®) platform provides a unique and powerful dispatch service (two-way half duplex voice calls within a group, PTT [ Push-To-Talk ], AVS) and presence solution. Responsibilities: • Analyzed, designed and developed the transport layer for the product which uses SMSC as the transport. Implemented the GSM Standard 3.40 for Messaging in the GSM network. • Designed component on UML Concepts with Magic Draw • Analyzed, designed and developed the Group SMS Application. • Did Requirements identification, consolidation and providing effort estimation. • Did interfacing with the Hand-Set Team for defining the protocol between the handset and the GroupSMS Application. • Component built on inbuilt fault-recovery and presistency mechanisms. • Analyzed, designed and developed the CDR [Call Data Records] Dispatcher and the billing processor. • Involved in Requirements identification, consolidation and providing effort estimation.

Software Engineer

Nokia Siemens Networks · Bangalore

Project: Home Location Register-Innovation Product Info: The Home Location Register (HLR) is the main database of permanent subscriber information for a mobile network. Responsibilities: • Analyzed, designed and developed the Man-Machine subscriber Admin interface component. • Involved in Requirements identification, consolidation and providing effort estimation. • Made sure that system is compatible with GSM/GPRS/UMTS standards. • Developed modules for translating command line to XML format. • Designed component on UML Concepts with Rational Rose. • Worked on Lawful Interception Feature for HLR. • Worked on Backward Migration Tool, which provides a mechanism for fallback from HLRi [ Home location register Innovation ] to HLRc [Home location register Classic] in case of adverse conditions like an application crash.