# Prashant Dave

> Software Engineer at GS Lab

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

Domain: Network Virtualization, TCP/IP Routing
Virtual Firewall, SD-WAN (Software Defined WAN) Routing, DVS, OVS (OpenVswitch).

System expertise:
C, Golang, python, TCP/IP, SSL, TLS, PKI, Socket Programming, Netlink sockets, Multithreading, IPV4, Bridging, Routing (BGP).

Application development : Core Java, Java Play Framework
Databases          : MongoDB, Cassandra + Titan DB, Redis DB
Tools                   : GDB, Make, Git, Openssl, tcpdump

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ GS Lab
Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
SD-WAN (Software Defined WAN):
- Design & developed Multi-exit WAN Routing (Python, Golang)
- Linux Policy routing using IP Rule & VRF, and Quagga
- Support REST-based configuration for BGP, Route-map, & other routing configuration (Java, Golang, Python)

### Associate Architect @ GS Lab
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Pune Area, India
SD-WAN (Software Defined WAN):
- Feature development & enhancement to existing systems (C, Golang, Java)
- Design Multi-region Cloud Controller (using AWS Lambda & Dynamo DB) in Java Play

SDN Agent:
- Mentor Development team (2 member) in design & development of SDN Agent for L3-L7 Switch
- Functional spec, code review, automation

### Lead Software Engineer @ GS Lab
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Pune Area, India
SD-WAN (Software Defined WAN)
- Design & implement robust & scalable REST-based PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
- Worked on TPM (Trusted Platform Module), Trousers, OpenSSL
- Remote Device Access Control using Reverse tunneling
- Mentoring Development team (6 member) - Requirement gathering, Design & Functional spec, Estimation & work assignment, bug-scrum
- Successfully delivered multiple end-to-end features (PKI, Device Lifecycle & licensing model, Virtual form of Device (on ESXi))

### Senior Software Engineer @ GS Lab
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Pune Area, India
Virtual Firewall
- Worked on Policy Engine
- Policy Engine integration with OpenStack (using OpenStack Nova & Neutron APIs)
- Bug fixes & feature development

### Senior Product Engineer @ Symphony Services
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Pune, India
Designed and developed GUI based Infant breath analyzer in Qt Embedded
- Porting Linux to ARM based STMicrocontroller
- Porting Qt embedded platform for UI development
- Porting CUPS (Common Unix Printing System)
- UART communication to talk to Breath Analyzer to gather data 
- Sqlite for Data storage

### Product Engineer @ Symphony Services
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Designed and developed GUI based Infant breath analyzer in Qt Embedded
- Porting Linux to ARM based STMicrocontroller
- Porting Qt embedded platform for UI development
- Porting CUPS (Common Unix Printing System)
- UART communication to talk to Breath Analyzer to gather data 
- Sqlite for Data storage

### Product Engineer @ CoreObjects
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Pune Area, India
Designed and developed Network controller for Alarm Control System.
- Design, developed and tested Tiny HTTP Server (to run on 16-bit STMicrocontroller)
- UART communication
- SPI protocol to data-transfer between 2 STMicrocontroller
- Network controller engine design & development

### Software Engineer @ Jopasana
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007


## Education
### Msc in Computer Science
Savitribai Phule Pune University

### Bsc. Computer Science
Savitribai Phule Pune University

### N. M. V. High school, Pune


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11