# Shashank Naik

> Principal Engineer at Netskope

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

Software development engineer with experience in cloud-scale networking, load balancing, inline traffic processing at high scale, HTTP, SSL decryption, cloud security, and, PKI.

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Netskope
Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
As a principal engineer, responsible for operationalizing load balancing along with direct server return to vastly increase scale of cloud data plane.

As a principal engineer, responsible for designing and implementing features for a SSL decrypting proxy, including certificate management, and proxy chaining.

As a manager responsible for leading a 11 member team owning mission critical services in the cloud that provided functionality for SSL and HTTP traffic inspection, the real time policy matching framework, and the PKI infrastructure for the suite of cloud security products.

As a principal engineer, responsible for enhancing Netskope's PKI infrastructure, building a certificate authority, and providing tech leadership for the PKI engineering team.

### Member, Technical Staff @ Riverbed Technology
Jan 2010 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, California
HTTP/HTTPS Proxying and Content Caching Service
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As a technical lead, worked with various engineering teams and the product management group, to define requirements and architect the integration of a HTTP/HTTPS proxy service  that provided content caching on Riverbed's WAN Optimization Appliance.

As an individual contributor, part of the team that implemented major aspects of the web-proxy service, including the following,
Local termination of HTTP and SSL sessions
Selective SSL Decryption and Certificate Management
HTTP Content Caching
Manageability through REST API

As an individual contributor, designed and partially responsible for implementing a RESTful service to provide manageability to the caching service. [Python, REST]

File System Protocols Optimization
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As an Individual Contributor, worked on developing and maintaining the optimization engines for CIFS, NFS, and SMB2 file system protocols for Riverbed's WAN Optimization Appliance.

As an individual contributor, designed, and implemented optimizations for the WebDAV extensions to HTTP.

As an individual contributor, part of team that worked on development and maintenance of a CIFS client and the data pre-population system to warm the segment store on Riverbed' WAN Optimization Appliance using the CIFS protocol.

### Software Engineer @ SITA
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Bohemia, New York
As an individual contributor, worked on developing a device management middleware solution that interfaces transparently with peripheral devices such as general purpose printers and scanners at airports.

### Senior Member, Technical Staff @ Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2003 – Jan 2007
Part of team that worked on the design and development of Metadata Repository Creation Assistant (MRCA) and Oracle Application Server Cloning.
Worked on developing software for the Oracle Application Server (10g, 10g R2), Oracle SOA Suite.


## Education
### M S in Computer Science
Stony Brook University

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12