# Prashant Iyer

> Engineering @ Hashicorp

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/prashant

1.	Experienced working on multiple projects on Network(IoT, VPN) and System Security(AFL, OSS).
2.	Strong knowledge in Golang.
3.	Successfully contributed to the efi-whitelist project at Intel Security in designing a tool for detecting corrupt, invalid or missing efi binaries in the system by validating contents of firmware on supported systems.
4.	Building robust, highly scalable web service applications using Golang, Python, JavaScript frameworks.
5.	Experienced writing and consuming RESTful web services, version controls, AWS and python scripting.
6.	Excellent understanding of relational and non-relational databases like MySQL, Mongo DB, Cassandra DB, DynamoDB.
7.	Strong knowledge in Search Engine Optimization.
8.	Analyzing and Instrumenting Security assessment tools like chipsec, AFL and OSS-fuzzer to detect vulnerabilities in open source C/C++ libraries.

Technology:
Technical Skills:       Golang, Python, C, C++, Java, Haskell
Containers:               Docker
Database:                 MySQL, Elastic Search, Cassandra DB, PostgreSQL
Web Technologies:  JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AngularJS, NodeJS

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ HashiCorp
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Xage Security
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Distributed systems & Scaling IAM
Zero Trust

### Security Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Development Engineer @ McAfee
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Santa Clara, California
Secure Home Platform | Safeconnect VPN

Technologies :
• C, Python, Golang
• AWS
• Linux

### Software Engineer Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara, California Area
Member of Advanced Threat Research team, Intel Security Group, Intel Corporation.
https://www.mcafee.com/uk/threat-center/advanced-threat-research/index.aspx

Achievements :
•	Instrumented fuzzing technologies like AFL to find assertion failures and memory leaks on various cryptolibraries, QEMU, VLC, 7-zip and various other libraries.
•	Developed highly specific python scripts containing spidering logic providing downloadable UEFI/BIOS updates.
•	Worked on Platform Security Assessment Frameworks - chipsec.
•	Examined oss-fuzzing for analyzing the open source applications.

Links:
https://github.com/advanced-threat-research/efi-whitelist/

Technologies :
•	C, C++, Python
•	Chipsec
•	Linux
•	AFL-Fuzzer, OSS-Fuzzer, Libfuzzer, gdb


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
California State University, Los Angeles
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Mumbai
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### Vocational Science (Electronics) in Science
SIES College of Arts, Science and Commerce
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/prashant-krishnan-iyer

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Source: https://flows.cv/prashant
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/prashant/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22