Experience
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
San Jose, California, United States
Department: Nginx+, PD
Position: Principal Software Engineer
Responsibilities: new features development, legacy code maintenance.
• SME in MQTT, Keyval, Active Health Checks, JWT Auth.
• Significantly reduced traffic overhead by implementing JWT key caching. (С)
• Implemented keepalive mode for Active Health Checks, contributing to system robustness (C).
• Pioneered the integration of Nginx+ into the growing IoT market through the implementation of new MQTT stream preread and filter modules (C).
• Leading a development team in the creation of a new module.
• Actively participated in technical and design discussions.
2013 — 2022
2013 — 2022
San Jose, California, United States
Department: Access Policy Management module (APM), PD
Position: Principal Software Engineer
Responsibilities: new features development, legacy code maintenance.
• SME in LDAP, MSRPC, NTLM, Active Directory, Kerberos, RADIUS, RSA SecurID, SSO.
• Drove new features development and maintained legacy code, specializing in LDAP, MSRPC, NTLM, Active Directory, Kerberos, RADIUS, RSA SecurID, and SSO.
• Redesigned and re-implemented the LDAP module, resulting in a performance boost of over 20% (C++).
• Key contributor to the MFA team, implementing agents for adding and verifying client devices (C++).
• Designed and implemented OAuth client authentication module (C++).
• Expanded the proprietary ASN.1 library with DER encoding (C).
• Developed libmsrpc, eliminating SAMBA dependency on BigIP and resolving security issues in SMB protocols (C++).
• Ported NAP module of Nginx+ to multiple OS, creating corresponding pipelines in gitlab (C/C++, YAML).
• Established development infrastructure for APM team to work in gitlab (YAML).
• Handled numerous customer cases and internally reported bugs (C/C++, XML, PHP).
2005 — 2013
2005 — 2013
Tomsk, Russia
Department: Access Policy Management module (APM), PD
Position: Software Engineer III
Responsibilities: new features development, legacy code maintenance.
Most memorable projects are:
• designed and implemented AD/LDAP group caches
• designed and implemented support for nested groups by AD/LDAP modules
• support for paged results returned by AD/LDAP server
• support for UPN suffix for AD – users across a forest can log in seamlessly
• AD Auth performance improvement by including PADATA in very first AS-REQ
• implemented clientKey encryption mechanism for APM module of BigIP
• designed and implemented session variable modifiers for APM module
2004 — 2005
2004 — 2005
deployed and maintained few LAN segments based on Windows Server 2K+ and Linux (RedHat/Debian families)
2003 — 2004
2003 — 2004
maintained ISP internet access service based on several linux (RedHat) servers (gateway, billing system, local web services, customer web services)
developed web-application (Perl) to manage and control BroadBand Wireless Access equipment (BreezeAccess) via SNMP. The system includes daemon process (linux C) to update stats from endpoint devices.
Education
Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics