# Raju M. > Principal Software Engineer at Proofpoint Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rajum Engineering industry leading products in network security and cloud services, combining customer requirements, research and operational perspective. Senior Technical Leader • Software Development • Distributed Architecture • Security Expertise • Cloud Solutions Technical Expertise: Hands-on experience in developing scalable products and services for Threat Intelligence, Malware Detection, Cloud Security, Distributed Systems, Virtualization, Containers (Docker), Orchestration (Kubernetes), Application Identification (AppID), Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), Intrusion Detection (IDP), Unified Threat Management, TLS Proxy, Nextgen Firewall (NGFW), Software Defined Security and Machine Learning based Threat Detection and Analytics. Technology Leadership: Delivered strategic advice in planning, continuous integration, and system delivery; Collaboration with senior engineering and business leaders to identify and resolve key issues, performed deep evaluations of product and technology in the context of funding decisions, competitive analysis, and partner strategy. Non-technical Skills: Strong work ethic; excellent analytical abilities, takes ownership, robust problem-solving methods. Achieved team-level collaboration and earned trust with numerous engineering deliverables. Ability to see the big picture as well as get down to business details. Roles: Principal Engineer, Senior Technical Lead, Technical Advisor, R&D Engineer ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Proofpoint Jan 2019 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Software Architect @ Unknown Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara, California, United States Built cloud native security technologies at an early stage startup building innovative security analytics SaaS product. ### Principal Software Engineer @ Juniper Networks Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, CA Application/Layer 7 Networking and Cloud Security domains including Threat Analytics, Malware detection, Advanced Zero-day threat prevention, Security Intelligence, , IDP and NGFW technologies. Design and deploy large scale security services leveraging virtualization, containers and orchestration in public (AWS) and private clouds. Big data and Machine Learning. ### Senior Technical Leader at Security Business Unit @ Juniper Networks Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, CA Senior technical leader responsible for architecture, integrity, design, implementation, qualification of (all aspects of engineering) L7 security services for SRX products and solutions. L7 Security Services including Adv Malware Detection, Breach Detection, Security Intelligence, Application Security, Unified Threat Management – URL Filtering, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam – Nextgen FW – AppFW, UserFW, Cross-functional collaboration, defining and reviewing technical requirements and solutions. Member of Architecture Board, Patent Review Committee ### Technical Advisor to EVP, Software Solutions Division(SSD) @ Juniper Networks Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Sunnyvale, CA Technical Advisor(TA) to EVP, Software Solutions Division(SSD) at Juniper Networks. Collaborated with engineering and business leaders to identify and resolve key issues, performed deep evaluations of product and technology in the context of funding decisions, competitive analysis and partner strategy. Juniper Services Platform(JSP), Software Defined Networking(SDN), Deep Packet Inspection(DPI), JUNOS high-availability, Log Data Analytics AppIDv2, common Linux distribution. Identify and drive key Edge, Datacenter for executive leadership review. Research and ensure SSD EVP Staff abreast on market, technology, and industry trends. Partnered with the VP of Operations and Director of Communications on high quality divisional and external communication. Synthesized complex technical information into clear messages for internal and external communications. Juniper strategy with industry partners, contributed to partnership health checks, technical integrity of the partner integrated solutions. ### Software Engineer Sr Staff / Technical Leader @ Juniper Networks Jan 2005 – Jan 2012 | Sunnyvale, CA Key contributions to technical integrity, architecture, implementation and quality of Juniper Networks DPI, APPID, IPS, UTM technologies.. Application Identification (APPID), UTM, IPS, Protocol Decoders, Regular-expression and IPS Policy engines, APPDDoS, SSL decryption, SSL Proxy, GTP and GRE Decap, Inline-tap, Logical-systems, virtual SRX, High-availability, In-service software upgrade. Partner technologies evaluation, funding decisions on DPI, Network monitoring and analytics Hardware Assist for Regex matching working with CTO office and Silicon leads. IPS and NGFW performance and efficacy improvements for NGFW, IPS NSS Labs tests. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Nokia Enterprise Solutions Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 Key contributions in architecting, enhancing and implementing security solutions on Nokia’s secure operating system IPSO for carrier class IP platforms, Checkpoint Firewall and VPN integration, Nokia IP cluster technology, Nokia IP VPN management, accelerated flow processing with Checkpoint SecureXL and, Nokia Secure Access System (SSL Gateway) technologies.  CheckPoint FW/VPN Nokia IPSO OS integration, IP Cluster.  Nokia Secure Access System (NSAS) Apache modules ICU, SSL and NSAS modules on IPSO-SX.  Nokia VPN –VPN management scalability, Metahop framework,  Nokia IP40 – Platform development for Nokia’s Security for Branch Office offering. ### Scientist/Engineer @ National Remote Sensing Centre (Indian Space Research Organization) Jan 1998 – Jan 2002 Developed time-critical and complex network software working closely with networking, data acquisition hardware and data processing software teams, in building various real-time system components for satellite data acquisition, pre-processing, archival and delivery.  Satellite Information System(SIS) Web Application Development,  Earth Station Networking and Security SW,  Station Control Computer Systems,  Multifunctional UI, Data Archival and browsing sample imagery. ### Scientific Assistant @ Institute for Plasma Research Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 * Scientific assistance in the development of radio frequency generators and modeled RF energy transmission to ingenuously developed Tokamak. * Involved in several control card design projects for high power DC supplies. ## Education ### MS in Software Systems Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani ### Graduate in Computer Engineering The Institution of Engineers (IEI), Kolkata ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/manthena --- Source: https://flows.cv/rajum JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rajum/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12