Vinay Thotakura

Software Engineer at Meta

Bothell, Washington, United States

About

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). • Awarded “Information Assurance Professional Certificate” by Mississippi State University. • Designed a novel data structure index-ordered Merkle tree (IOMT) which permits a resource constrained trustworthy module to maintain the integrity of a dynamic database of records stored in an un-trusted location. • Developed a new routing protocol Collision Resistant Temporally Ordered Routing Algorithm (CR-TORA) for ad hoc wireless mobile networks which has better performance than its peers, and also has inbuilt characteristics to handle collisions. • Proficiency in various programming & scripting languages like: C, C++, JAVA, and Perl • Experience in parallel programming, especially in multithreading using Pthreads. • Knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite, and also studied various security mechanisms like: DES, HMACs, Digital Signatures, Asymmetric key exchange, PKI, PKD, Kerberos, SSL, and IPsec.

Experience

  • Staff Software Engineer at Meta
    Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Staff Software Engineer at Uber
    Jan 2021 - Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Sr Software Engineer at Twitter
    Jan 2019 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs

  • Software Engineer II at Microsoft
    May 2014 - Jan 2019 · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • Software Engineer at Epic Systems
    Apr 2011 - May 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    • Involved in the design and implementation of the workflows that involve receiving and storing of samples into the Beaker laboratory system. • Developed an activity that displays a list of outstanding tests to the end-users. • Worked on transforming Epic’s internal data (stored using Caché) to a relational database, for customers to generate reports. • Performed Quality Assurance (PQA) of the Beaker system for quality and performance checks.