Manoj Kasichainula

• More than 15 years of professional software development and architecture focused on security, scalability, reliability, and performance
• Experience with many phases of the software lifecycle including requirements, use cases, analysis, design, implementation, optimization, documentation, maintenance, and system administration
• Development on Unix flavors such as Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and AIX. Exposure to Win32 development
• Languages including C/C++, Java, Python, Perl, SQL, and assembly
• Member of the Apache Software Foundation and HTTP Server Project (1999-present)

Software Engineer - Security, Google (2005-)

• Security lead on a new infrastructure skunkworks project
• Design and development of compartmentalization changes in production environment
• Security and privacy policy, design, implementation, and leadership for web logging infrastructure
• Security liaison/lead on Google Checkout credit card processing (now Google Wallet)
• Security evaluations of dozens of product launches, including web frontends and backend infrastructure
• Key incident response handling for Aurora attacks

Senior Architect, ADP (2003-2005)

• Design and implement standards and a prototype for identity federation using SAML and Shibboleth
• Supervise contractors and help in the building of a reverse proxy solution for load balancing, identity management, and customer request routing using Netegrity SiteMinder, Apache, Spread, and mod_backhand
• Shepherd incubation of ideas and technologies, including data center automation, collaborative development practices, and open standards
• Serve as an technical resource for unsolved problems

Senior Software Engineer, CollabNet (2000-2003)

• Designed and built security using X.509 certificates for SourceCast, a web-based system allowing multi-vendor collaborative software development. This included developing a protocol to allow wrapping a standard CVS client in two-factor certificate authentication. The system is based on Apache, CVS, mod_ssl, and OpenSSL.
• Planned and implemented mechanisms that provide 99.9% availability for critical customer infrastructure, including watchdogs and hot failover using a Network Appliance filer
• Designed and developed a custom single sign-on system for use with standard web browsers, based on Java servlets and MySQL
• Built releases, performed installations, did troubleshooting, and maintained systems running SourceCast
• Examined cracked Linux and FreeBSD servers, including apache.org, and helped secure them
• Provided expertise from open source communities on development processes and developer relations

Software Engineer, IBM (1997-2000)

• Developed key code for Apache 2.0, including support for hybrid multiprocess and multithreaded operation on Linux and AIX using pthreads
• Represented IBM in the Apache Group
• Designed and prototyped a Java-based distributed application development tool and server

Carnegie Mellon University (1995-1997)

• M.S. in Information Networking
• GPA: 3.7
• Designed and implemented an extension of Mobile IP to streamline movement overhead
• Wrote a highly-available, client-server, distributed, IP-based multimedia system in C++

North Carolina State University (1993-1995)

• B.S. in Computer Engineering, minor in Mathematics
• GPA: 3.9
• Build a user-friendly school scheduling system using Tcl/Tk and Linux

• Contributions to open source projects including Apache httpd, the Linux kernel, ALSA, and mutt
• Ported the open source S3 Savage driver for XFree86 to the SuperSavage engine
• INI Fellowship (1996)
• Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (1995)