# Pavan Kumar Nallabothu

> Staff Engineer

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/pavankumarnallabothu

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Aviatrix
Jan 2021 – Present

### Security Researcher @ McAfee
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | United States
• HTTP/2 feature design and implementation for McAfee NSP.
• Developed signatures to detect various vulnerabilities, malware and enterprise threats.
• Enhanced protocol parsing code for attack signature detection.
• Developed code and attack signatures to enhance coverage and performance of McAfee IPS for various tests such as BPS, NSS, NGIPS and DCIPS.
• Developed code for exploit generation and evasion testing.
• Research on and release emergency coverage for many zero-day vulnerabilities.
• Enhanced botnet DAT file generation by using data from telemetry and malware replication framework.
• Develop and maintain Splunk infrastructure.
• Developed and enhanced software infrastructure for the team.
• Automated tasks and developed various tools for internal use.
• Release signature set on a weekly basis.
• Setup and troubleshoot servers, VMs and network for botnet/malware research.
• Support customers with all their requirements with code, vulnerability coverage, performance issues etc.,
• Handled and resolved many escalations.

### Software Engineer @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara, CA

### Security Researcher Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Santa Clara, California

### Instructional Student Assistant @ San Jose State University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Jose


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical Engineering
San Jose State University

### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electronics and Communications Engineering
Bapatla Engineering College

### Intermediate Education in Higher Seconday Education
Vignan junior college, Vadlamudi


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pavan-nallabothu

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Last updated: 2026-04-12