# Vijay Bulusu

> High-performance Networking & Security Specialist

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

- Technical Lead experienced in high traffic, highly distributed, fault tolerant enterprise grade
Security and SaaS solutions on private and public clouds
- 15+ years of hands-on experience in the design and development of high performance software at large companies and startups
- Deep understanding of security/networking protocols and concepts
- Capable of delivering results in an unstructured environment by making progress while requirements are in evolution

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Aurascape
Jan 2025 – Present

### Principal Architect @ Aviatrix
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Principal Engineer @ Salesforce
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Securing Salesforce workloads on public clouds as part of the Network Security organization. 
- Building a Network Observability Platform for Salesforce workloads on Public Clouds. 
- Defined and Implemented the network security architecture for Salesforce workloads on GCP. Built a self-service framework for service owners to manage their security and network segmentation policy
- Efficacy evaluation and deployment of Web Application Firewall(WAF) for securing Kubernetes
workloads. Developed control plane components for policy orchestration

### Software Architect @ Zscaler Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2022 | San Jose
Building and Scaling critical components of Zscaler’s SASE platform securing 200+ Billion web transactions/day(as of 2021) doubling every 20 months. Specifically:
- SSL/TLS including MITM proxy, Cloud HSM integration for MITM, policy enforcement, traffic visibility, protocol stack and hardware offload
- Traffic forwarding to cloud including a fully multi-tenant IPSec-as-a-Service stack, DTLS based proprietary tunneling solution and DNS based traffic forwarding; Won Excellence Award for building fully multi-tenant IPSec stack
- Forward proxy supporting both transparent and explicit proxy modes; Won Excellence Award for building a policy framework to enforce policy during network and node failures
- Overall reliability and scalability of customer traffic processing nodes contributing to 99.999% service availability; Won award for solving problems affecting cloud manageability/stability
- Collaborate with Product Management to translate strategy/requirements into actionable tasks
- Work with Customers and Support to resolve product deployment/customization challenges

### Staff Software Engineer @ Juniper Networks
Jan 2006 – Jan 2012 | Sunnyvale
Architected and Delivered critical IPSec modules for multiple Juniper platforms with varying capabilities. Developed clean interfaces for maximum code reusability across platforms. 
- Lead developer for the High Availability(HA), PKI and Config Management modules for IPSec. Implemented scalable light-weight designs for distributed platforms
- Developed a distributed IPSec VPN solution to improve IKE session scaling and ramp-up by moving IKE from a centralized control plane daemon to linecards  
- Developed IKEv2 to help position SRX5800 as security gateway in the LTE market

### Research Assistant @ Louisiana State University
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
Researched several fun problems in wireless network security; Published research work in highly reputed peer-reviewed journals and conferences


## Education
### MS in Computer Science
Louisiana State University

### Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
Indian Institute Of Information Technology - Calcutta, West Bengal University of Technology


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05