Rahul Gopinath

Cybersecurity Researcher

Education

20172010

Ph.D. Computer Science

Oregon State University Oregon, US
20102008

M.S Computer Science

Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois, US
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B.Tech Civil Engineering

Kerala University Thiruvananthapuram, India

Experience

Now2022

Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor)

The School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia
  • Faculty in Computer Science, focused on software engineering.
20222017

Scientific Staff

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarland University Saarbrücken, Germany
  • Postdoctoral researcher in cybersecurity, focused on fuzzing.
20172017

Intern (01 -- 03)

Galois Inc. Arlington, US
  • Worked on the DARPA CFAR (Cyber Fault-tolerant Attack Recovery) project
20142012

Summer Intern (07 -- 09)

Puppetlabs Inc. Portland, US
  • Contributed Solaris 10 and 11 support for Native Factor bringing parity with the Ruby Factor.
  • Implemented a common build environment for Solaris, Windows, and FreeBSD Native Factor, build toolchain and its dependencies.
  • Worked on Postgresql streaming replication and failover. Developed initial puppet module for Postgresql clustering.
  • Developed release tasks for Solaris 11 packages for Puppet, Factor and Hiera
  • Handled preliminary release of Solaris 11 IPS Package for Puppet 3.0.0
  • Worked with Q.A and Ops to enable Solaris infrastructure in Puppet Labs
20102004

Member of Technical Staff

Sun Microsystems Bangaloor, India
  • Integrated various Apache modules and Squid cache for OpenSolaris.
  • Built framework which enabled non-root, relocatable installations of opensource components and developed common service functions library for Sun Web Stack.
  • Worked in web server clustering with session-failover capability and reverse proxy, implemented TCL shell scripting for administration.
  • Contributed implementation of FTP, (SSL) CONNECT and SOCKS protocols for proxy server.
  • Contributed to caching subsystem including cache manipulation tools, cache eviction, and implementations of ICP and CARP cache coordination protocols.
  • Contributed to light-weight session failover – a clustering framework for Web Server.
20042002

Member of Technical Staff

Quark Media House Mohali, Chandigarh, India
  • Worked in load-balancer and cache implementation for Quark Document Server farms.
  • Worked in Simple messaging and XSLT presentation layer for Quark Web Server.
20022000

Developer

SunTec Business Solutions Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
  • Implemented SOAP Service API for the billing interface, provided domain sensitive caching and transaction control in the client for billing engine.