# Barun H. > Turning Chaos to System at Monaco Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/barun (Aspirational) 10X engineer fueled by curiosity Currently, not looking for new opportunities but always happy to connect! ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ Monaco Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, CA GTM platform lead 0 to 100 - Early stage engineering direction - Built v0 of many parts of the product ### Staff Software Engineer @ Fiddler Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, CA GenAI lead. 0 to 10. Research -> Ideation -> Implementation -> Customer Feedback -> Scaling and expansion. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Fiddler Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, CA Core ML Monitoring. Helped with platform + customer scaling efforts. Rearchitecting pieces of the platform + delivering core customer facing features to help with customer acquisition and avoiding churn. ### Board Member @ CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Lead program to bring entrepreneurial CMU Alumni on same platform. Build Sprint - https://cmute.io/build-sprint buildsprint.app cmute.io/build-sprint cmute.io/future-founder cmute.io/about ### Fellow @ On Deck Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | United States On Deck No Code fellowship. Shipped : https://smilebright.today/ https://coda.io/d/Design-Sprint_dlBTAJot4Z8 https://crackmle.club ### Senior Software Engineer @ Pensando Systems Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States Distributed systems in GoLang. ### Software Engineer @ VMware Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, California, United States Virtual Device Storage - Cloud Platforms - "vFuzz" Fuzzing framework for ESX built on top of AFL. Built during hackathon at VMware, improving the code coverage for KMS client library (QClient) by 40% - VM Encryption Part of team responsible for performing VM data at rest encryption. Responsible for maintaining library for Key Management Server interaction. Extended existing testing framework in python to enable scale testing locally ### Graduate Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Built a simulator to model LTE network users based on usage patterns. ### Practicum Student @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Design and implement a generic board for sensing on the Arduino Platform. Build a Proof Of Concept application using this generic board. ### Software Engineer @ VMware Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, California, United States Added support for encrypted snapshots of Virtual Machine memory. Involves working with the ESXi Kernel's paging system. ### Software Engineer @ Cisco Systems Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Worked in three projects - Cisco FirePower OS - Next Generation Platform for Security Applications. Was part of the 4 member development team, which worked on Flow Offload Feature which helps improve the efficiency of the system and thus throughput. IPS-Lite (CTO Funded Project) Owned the integration of Snort with Openstack and enabling migration of the System using Docker. This project enabled to install security closest to the point of use in a Virtual Environment and help protect VMs from malicious East-West traffic as well. Cisco Classic Intrusion Prevention System ### Co-Founder - It's Artsy @ Startup Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Systems Carnegie Mellon University ### Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science PES University ### Higher Secondary Board in Science St. Francis Of Assisi Convent High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/barunhalder - Website: https://www.github.com/bhalder - Website: https://barunhalder.vom - Website: https://twitter.com/behalder --- Source: https://flows.cv/barun JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/barun/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05