ARJUN RAMKRISHNAN NAMBIAR
SECURITY RESEARCH ENGINEER
SUMMARY
• An optimistic and dynamic Computer Science Engineer (Masters) with 2 years of academic & research experience in Cryptography, Anonymity and Network Security.
• Co-authored a paper to appear at the 13th ACM CCS’2006.
• Excellent programming skills in C, C++ and Java Programming.
• Knowledge of tools involved in pentration testing, web application security concepts like buffer overflows, cross site scripting vulnerability, reverse engineering and use of debuggers like gdb, as well as concepts important to anti-virus like packers, complex viruses.
• Enjoy working in teams. Strong communication skills.
• Spirent Certified Performance Analyst(SCPA) with limited penetration testing experience.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant
• Thesis titled “Towards a stronger Peer-To-Peer Anonymous Communication Systemâ€.
• Presented thesis work at the South Central Information Security Symposium(SCISS’06).
• As part of the iSEC Lab, was involved in determining a solution for the stepping-stone detection problem using robust watermarking techniques.
PUBLICATIONS
• 13th ACM Conference of Computer and Communication Security(CCS’2006): Co-authored a paper titled "Salsa-A Structured Approach to Large Scale Anonymity" with Dr.Matthew Wright, accepted into research track program (acceptance rate:14.8%).
PROJECTS
• Salsa: A Structured Approach to Large Scale Anonymity.
• Implementation of RSA in Java.
• Implementation of a variant of the Simple DES algorithm.
• Implemented a Buffer Overflow attack on a FTP Server.
• Designed Implemented an SMTP Server/Client pair using socket programming in Java.
• Implemented the TCP Go-Back-N reliable data transfer protocol in C++.
• Configured and setup a network using ns-2 and demonstrated QoS characteristics for Differentiated Services.
EDUCATION
• M.S, Computer Science and Engineering. University of Texas at Arlington, 2006.
• B.E, Electronics Engineering. Mumbai University, 2001.
RELEVANT COURSEWORK
• Network Security and Cryptography.
• Computer Networks-1 & 2.
• Operating Systems- 1 & 2.
• Advanced OOP.
TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS
• Security Tools: Ethereal, Firestarter, Snort, Ossec, Airsnort, Aircrack, Kismet, Iptables, Spirent Avalanche, Reflector, Metasploit Framework, gdb, nmap, nessus, packit, arpspoof, tcpreplay.
• Languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, Shell script, Mysql.
• Platforms: UNIX, Linux, Windows (NT, XP).
• Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, FTP, SMB, S/MIME, SSL, TLS, PGP, Kerberos, X.509.
• Algorithms: 3DES, AES, Blowfish, RC4, RSA, DH, Elliptical Curve, MD5, SHA, DSA.
AWARDS AND LEADERSHIP
• Awarded Network Security Research Scholarship by Department of CSE, UTA.
• Member of High-School and RAIT (college) Basketball teams that qualified for semi-finals at State level.
• Elected as Sports Secretary for RAIT and served on School Student Council for three consecutive years.
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