# Naveen R.

> Software Engineer at Zscaler

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/naveenr

Experienced and enthusiastic software developer who loves solving interesting problems!  Experience developing robust and scalable solutions in networking and distributed systems. Well versed in TCP/IP stack delivering various features over L2-L7 layers both control and data plane. 

Always open to new challenges and learning new technologies.
Interests:
Security, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, SDN.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Zscaler
Jan 2022 – Present | San Jose, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ F5 Networks
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Part of F5 SSL Orchestrator dataplane development team responsible for intercepting traffic and
steering to different security devices for inspection.
* Worked on containerization of existing components for modular BIGIP. This involved refactoring
components to run as Docker container leveraging the new CI/CD pipeline.
* Developed dataplane module for native integration of Shape Bot Defense solution with F5 BIGIP. This
involved implementing state machine needed for processing HTTP requests and interacting with Shape
Server for bot detection. This increased the performance of solution compared to existing iRule
solution.

### Staff Software Engineer @ A10 Networks, Inc
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ A10 Networks, Inc
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | San Jose
1) Designed and implemented control and data plane features in ACOS multi-core platform.
2) Implemented GiFW GTP control protocol support.
3) Implemented GiFW Scaleout support. This allows to add 8 devices in the cluster running GiFW application. The cluster management was done leveraging the Zookeeper infrastructure.
4) Implemented GRE tunnel support for DDoS product.
5) Worked on the Ericsson Smart Service Router project in integrating the A10 CGNAT solution on Ericsson SSR. Implemented feature support for the network virtualization and High Availability features on SSR using Ericsson SDK’s.
6) Also delivered other L2/L3/L4 features including management ACL's, object groups and support enterprise customers to resolve the issues.

### Software Engineering Intern @ A10 Networks
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Jose , California
1) Worked on the L2/L3 features for ACOS 4.0.
2) Resolved numerous bugs in the control plane for ACOS 4.0

### Software Engineer @ Huawei
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Bangalore
1) Instrumental in delivering NGIN (Next Generation Intelligent Network) services to the customers across the globe for GSM/UMTS/IMS networks involving in entire software development life cycle (user requirement understanding to design, development and testing) of the telecom services following Agile methodology.
2) Developed NGIN applications in C++ on the Huawei NGIN platform.


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
North Carolina State University

### Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Electronics and Communication Engineering
Government Engineering College Thrissur

### 10 in +2, Mathematics, Computer Science
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Thrissur


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/naveen-r-588b1818

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Last updated: 2026-04-12