Work

Most recent first. Campus and production infrastructure to begin with, then WAN failover and virtualization, and firmware and secure boot now.

Firmware Engineer

Quantum Networks

Dec 2025 — now · Remote

  • OpenWrt
  • U-Boot
  • Qualcomm IPQ60xx
  • Secure Boot

Current

  • Implemented verified boot in U-Boot for OpenWrt-based access points, with authenticated kernel and rootfs validation across dual-image flash layouts.
  • Built and validated a complete secure-boot workflow for Qualcomm IPQ60xx platforms: key provisioning, image signing, fuse programming, and boot-chain verification from PBL to Linux.
  • Developed a hardened firmware-signing pipeline with RSA-PSS signing, SHA-384 fuse hashing, and signed recovery images.
  • Diagnosed secure-boot failures through vendor tooling analysis, boot metadata inspection, and controlled fuse generation.
  • Low-level recovery over serial console, emergency download mode, and flash-level workflows.

Intern

Tata Communications

May — Jul 2025 · Pune

  • MPTCP
  • Virtualization
  • SAN
  • VLANs
  • Built a multi-link WAN switching and aggregation engine for seamless failover across uplinks.
  • Deployed a clustered virtualization environment on enterprise rack servers with redundant SAN storage over multipath I/O.
  • Isolated management, cluster, and storage traffic across dedicated interfaces and VLANs.
  • Validated failover under simulated link and controller outages, and wrote the operational documentation.

Systems Engineer and Lead

IRIS, NITK

May 2023 — May 2026 · NITK Surathkal

  • Networking
  • DevOps
  • Virtualization
  • Monitoring
  • Added JWT access control for internal dashboards using a custom-compiled NGINX module integrated with a Rails service.
  • Set up centralized monitoring with Zabbix and Grafana, alerting on certificate expiry, outages, and anomalies.
  • Migrated GitLab Enterprise to a containerized deployment with automated backups and health checks.
  • Migrated 40+ containers and 15+ VMs to a high-availability cluster with zero downtime.
  • Built a Dockerized Moodle test environment for isolated API testing.

Research Intern

NITK Surathkal

Apr — Jul 2024 · Supervised by Prof. Mohit P. Tahiliani

  • 802.1X
  • NAC
  • PacketFence
  • VLANs
  • Designed and deployed a network access control testbed using PacketFence, OPNsense, and VLAN segmentation.
  • Configured VLAN-based enforcement with dynamic device onboarding, DHCP handling, and access policies.
  • Validated end-to-end enforcement with VLAN tagging and PVIDs across simulated endpoint scenarios.