- Maintained, hardened, and enhanced MetaDefender ICAP Server (MD ICAP), an OSI layer 7 application implementing the ICAP protocol (RFC 3507) for network content adaptation and security.
- Promoted from Associate Software Engineer after 6 months for contributions to product performance and security.
- Supported global sales engineers in deploying ICAP server for 10+ enterprise clients, integrating with DLP tools and web proxies.
- Improved HTTP/ICAP multi-threaded parsing, increasing throughput by 25% and reducing response time by 30% via refactoring chunked request logic and minimizing resource contention.
- Developed AD/LDAP group caching, configuration import/export, and system health checks, reducing manual setup time and improving deployment efficiency by 24%.
- Led PoC integration of MCP Server into the core product, designing dynamic license workflows and request diagnostics to potentially reduce support tickets by 15%.
- Led PostgreSQL migration from v12.2 to v16.6 across Linux and Windows, resolving compatibility issues and ensuring zero data loss.
- Performed load and stress tests on each release using Xen Orchestra and Grafana, running 100 concurrent clients over 54,200 requests to ensure system stability and identify performance bottlenecks.
- Built a unit test framework with 100% coverage for HTTP and ICAP parsers using PyTest.
- Mitigated DLL hijacking, SQL injection, SAML bypass, and CSV injection vulnerabilities, improving product security by ~20% and ensuring the integrity of exported reports.
C/C++
Python
ICAP
HTTP
PostgreSQL
Linux
Windows
Grafana
PyTest