Sarat Kongara

Distinguished Architect

San Jose, California, United States

About

• Systems programmer with over 18 years of experience in designing Enterprise Security Software • Distinguished Software Engineer/Architect responsible for Control and data plane platform, hardware and security/certifications • Actively building SDP/Zero Trust Secure Access Platform • Experience working with Cloud appliances and SaaS solutions across multiple cloud environments AWS, Azure • Experience in building Physical, virtual and cloud ready appliances • Extensive knowledge on highly scalable systems, performance and Cloud environments • Focus areas include enterprise/federal security, remote access (SSL and IPSec), networking, Content Intermediation proxy and Reverse Proxy and Web Security • Deep understanding on OpenSSL based PKI, Crypto infrastructure • Experience with compliances certifications like FIPS (Level 1 and Level 3) and common criteria certifications • Extensive working knowledge on different layers of stack from L3 to L7 including different browsers, web based applications and cross platform support • Worked across different layers software stack all the way from Javascript application to the Kernel • Understand performance scaling issues for different kind of implementations like thread based, non-blocking event based, task oriented, micro-service oriented architectures • Extensive experience on different authentication mechanisms, single-sign-on, role based access control support for web applications. • Strong customer focus with experience in handling customer escalations with large deployments • Experience in dealing with SIRT issues, web security

Experience

  • Distinguished Architect, Security at SolarWinds
    Aug 2021 - Present · 5 yrs

  • Pulse Secure (11 yrs 10 mos)
    • Principal Engineer
      Jul 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 1 mo

    • Distinguished Software Engineer
      Oct 2019 - Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    • Sr. Staff Software Engineer
      Oct 2014 - Jul 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Juniper Networks at Tech Lead/Sr. Staff Software Engineer
    Jun 2013 - Sep 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Juniper Networks (8 yrs 10 mos)
    • Staff Software Engineer
      Aug 2008 - Jun 2013 · 4 yrs 11 mos

    • Member, Technical Staff
      Sep 2004 - Aug 2008 · 4 yrs

  • Sr. Systems Engineer at Wipro Technologies
    Jun 2000 - Aug 2004 · 4 yrs 3 mos