Teaching Assistant for 14-740 : Fundamentals of Telecommunications and Computer Networks

Performed the following duties:

1) Held office hours every week to help students.

2) Graded homeworks, assignments, quizzes and exams.

3) Held review sessions before quizzes.

4) Answered students' questions on Piazza (a tool for student-teacher interaction)

Worked with the Policy team in the Cisco Network Assurance Engine (Candid), on the ‘Compliance Check’ feature, which will accept Compliance requirements from the network operator and verify whether a given network conforms to the specified requirements. The programming work was primarily done in Java.

• Innovated and developed new features such as 'Up2date' and Telemetry Client-Server Architecture and Database Handler for the Sophos XG (Next-Gen) Firewall, using C programming and Shell scripting

• Increased the security effectiveness of the Sophos XG Firewall from below 60% in 2016 to over 90% in 2017, as reported by NSS labs, by detecting evasion vulnerabilities using penetration testing tools such as Metasploit, Canvas, Evader and BreakingPoint Systems

• Saved 50 Man-hours by implementing a unique re-structuring of legacy code for the Telemetry Architecture

• Used Agile methodologies to co-ordinate and work with teams across Germany, UK and the US

• Received an Accelerated Promotion within 2 years, and had Top company rating for all 3 years