Resume of Manoj Kasichainula

More than ten years of professional software development focused on security, scalability, reliability, and performance
Experience with many phases of the software lifecycle including requirements, use cases, analysis, design, implementation, optimization, documentation, maintenance, and system administration
Development on Unix flavors such as Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and AIX since 1992. Exposure to Win32 development
Languages including C, Python, Java, Perl, SQL, and assembly. Currently learning Scheme
Member of the Apache Software Foundation and HTTP Server Project since 1999

Design and implement standards and a prototype for identity federation using SAML and Shibboleth
Supervise contractors and help in the building of a reverse proxy solution for load balancing, identity management, and customer request routing using Netegrity SiteMinder, Apache, Spread, and mod_backhand
Shepherd incubation of ideas and technologies, including data center automation, collaborative development practices, and open standards
Serve as an technical resource for unsolved problems

Designed and built security using X.509 certificates for SourceCast, a web-based system allowing multi-vendor collaborative software development. This included developing a protocol to allow wrapping a standard CVS client in two-factor certificate authentication. The system is based on Apache, CVS, mod_ssl, and OpenSSL.
Planned and implemented mechanisms that provide 99.9% availability for critical customer infrastructure, including watchdogs and hot failover using a Network Appliance filer
Designed and developed a custom single sign-on system for use with standard web browsers, based on Java servlets and MySQL
Built releases, performed installations, did troubleshooting, and maintained systems running SourceCast
Examined cracked Linux and FreeBSD servers, including apache.org, and helped secure them
Provided expertise from open source communities on development processes and developer relations

Developed key code for Apache 2.0, including support for hybrid multiprocess and multithreaded operation on Linux and AIX using pthreads
Represented IBM in the Apache Group
Designed and prototyped a Java-based distributed application development tool and server

M.S. in Information Networking
GPA: 3.7
Designed and implemented an extension of Mobile IP to streamline movement overhead
Wrote a highly-available, client-server, distributed, IP-based multimedia system in C++

Contributions to open source projects including Apache httpd, the Linux kernel, ALSA, and mutt
Ported the open source S3 Savage driver for XFree86 to the SuperSavage engine
INI Fellowship (1996)
Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (1995)

Manoj Kasichainula