# Amogh Budhkar > Staff Software Engineer at Uber Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/amoghbudhkar Strong team leader open to learning any new cutting edge technologies. Highly innovative and results oriented technology leader with more than 13 years of experience in the software industry. Worked in both startups as well as large companies in all phases of SDLC using both Waterfall as well as Agile methodologies. Led scrums of sizes 8-9 involving UX/UI/Backend/QA/PM, etc. Led small teams across geographies for triaging bugs & customer escalations. Posses excellent communication skills. Have experience working in small teams of 2-3 as well as large teams of 15-20 engineers and also cross team collaborations. 15+ years of experience in Software industry 11+ years of experience in Networking & Network Security 6+ years of experience in Java/SQL 5+ years of experience in Distributed systems 5+ years of expertise in building security products such as IAM - ABAC, Payments Security, fine grained access control, Rate limiting, Account lockouts, Password complexity, Password history, Password expiration for web platforms 5+ years of experience in Agile methodologies mainly as a Scrum master while working on Software Engineering responsibilities in parallel 2 years of experience in GoLang, Python Domain Expertise: Networks & Security, IAM, RBAC, REST API, DoDin APL, PSD2, Payments Security, Distributed Systems, System Design Languages - Java, Golang, Python, C, TCL/Expect Databases - Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MYSQL, Oracle SQL Tools & API - Elastic Search - Kibana, Logstash, Grafana, Git, JIRA, Swagger, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio Code, Oracle JDeveloper, PL/SQL Developer, Visual Sourcesafe, M3 Timeseries DB for metrics aggregation ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Uber Jan 2020 – Present Building Zero Trust Architecture(ZTA) systems at Uber scale with heavy focus on Reliability - Design/Develop authentication and authorization middleware for service to service and personnel access - Onboard/Integrate Payments services to strong auth mechanisms to meet PSD2 compliance - Design & Implement Audit logging pipeline for auth - Petabyte scale - ELK, Kibana, Hive - Design & Implement backend RPCs for authorization platform (gRPC, thrift over tchannel) - Design & Implement self service onboarding using Cadence.io - Built feature for Incremental rollout of authz policies - Platform Authorization / Secure Service mesh - Using Gen AI and advanced prompt engineering with various models to build Security Agents for speeding up adoption and help customers debug/resolve issues in minutes (MCP auth tools) - Use Claude APIs to speed up resolution during auth adoption ### Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead, Backend @ RedSeal, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Jose, California [Java/SQL/Swagger/JUnit] - Lead Engineer for design and development of various Product Security features (Strong Passwords, Password History, Password Expiration, Account Lockout) to get RedSeal into DoDIN APL (Formerly UC APL) product list - Lead Engineer for design and development of fine grained Access Control features using PostGreSQL Row Level Security - Lead Engineer for design and development of Data Ingestion REST APIs and backend - Expertise in DB migrations using Flywaydb - Scrum master for multiple releases ; Interact daily with UI/UX/Backend/Product teams for collaboratively providing simple solutions for complex customer use cases ### Staff Software Engineer @ A10 Networks Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area A10 Application Delivery Controllers L4-L7 A10 Harmony for Network management and policy enforcements [C, JSON, REST, Python] for ADC, SSLi, TPS solutions Lead engineer for prototyping and developing A10's Thunder Convergent Firewall Develop various enhancements for A10's SSLi product. [C, OpenSSL] ### Senior Software Engineer - Services & Routing Group @ Cisco Systems Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 - Designed & Developed AppNav-XE solution on IOS XE for ASR, CSR (Cloud Services Router) and ISR router platforms. (AppNav-XE is a component that intelligently distributes traffic from a router to services) Developed control-plane, IOS XE forwarding manager, data plane messaging infra for inter-box communication high availability. - Lead engineer to fix, assign & track defects, status updates, discuss and fix EFT issues. ### Software Engineer - Security Technology Group - IOS @ Cisco Systems Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 - Developed and prototyped Branch Policy/Identity Router paradigm on ISR router platform that distinguishes QoS services such as bandwidth and allows/denies access control , URL filtering, etc for various users based on profiles like employees, guests, visitors. Delivered demo and presentations to various internal organizations [C, IOS, XML, XACML] - Software Feature Development, Maintenance & Documentation in Cisco IOS ACL, Object-group ACL, IOS IPS, IOS Flexible Packet Matching – a Deep Packet Inspection technology [C, XML] - Developed several tools for Unit test and other automations such as file conversions [HTML, PHP, TCL/Expect] - Developed tool using kernel level “pktgen” for performance and throughput measurement [UNIX, bash, pktgen] ### Graduate Research Assitant @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Electrical & Computer Engineering Research and development of various Identity Management solutions and research and implement prototypes for identity management projects under Dr. Doug Blough in Georgia Tech Identity Management Research Group 1) Identity Management and Location Based Services – Implementation of privacy policy of users who are queried for their location, application of this service on devices such as smart phones. [JAVA, XML] 2) Attribute Negotiations using XACML - Implemented Policy Enforcement Point (PEP), Policy Decision Point (PDP), allow request-response based on defined policies, allow policy updating through GUI for a basic resource access using Sun's XACML engine 3) Extending the Sun's implementation of open source XACML engine to provide a more flexible solution of resource access control. ### Computer Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Computer lab devices networking responsibility, Computer hardware and software inventory management, Website development in Coldfusion and MYSQL ### Summer Intern - Security Technology Group (STG) @ Cisco Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | San Jose, CA - Developed tool for testing regexes on ISR router for signature based detection [TCL/Expect, XML, tcpreplay]. ### Asst Systems Engineer Trainee @ Tata Consultancy Services Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 - E-Governance project for State secretariat of Gujarat, India – Worked on Integrated Workflow Document Management System (IWDMS) for automation of document flow in the hierarchy of officers. [Java/J2EE] - Maintenance of a Job flow and Job Search System for GE client for hiring employees, using Struts framework, Jboss Server, PL/SQL developer and other Performance monitoring tools.[Java/J2EE] (Mar 06-Jun 06) ## Education ### MS in Information Security Georgia Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Engineering Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amoghbudhkar --- Source: https://flows.cv/amoghbudhkar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/amoghbudhkar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12