 patra.ajit@gmail.

com

 Bangalore, India
AJIT PATRA
 +91 9845204068 Engineering Director /Staff Engineer

 +91 9845204068

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajit-

patra/

 https://github.com/ajit-patra

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SUMMARY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

20+ years experienced Director / Staff Engineer - Data Encryption Sep '19 - Present

Engineering Leader &

American Express Bangalore, India
Architect with a track record
Spearheading an engineering team & acquainting them with necessary updates to
of leading teams to
achieve organisational goals
conceptualise & deliver
Driving the design, delivery and verification of crypto libraries, distributed system &
software solutions across
cloud-based solutions
diverse industries.
Monitoring design, consistency, and functionality of projects throughout their
Exceptionally efficient in
execution while ensuring timely delivery
strengthing development
Coordinating with architects, R&D teams to understand the parameters of design
processes by adopting latest
requested by partners
technologies and tools by
Supervising the executions and implementation of project plans in addition to managing
forging robust relationships
human & financial resources
with partners and relevant
Achieved the business objectives and deliver delightful products by collaborating with
stakeholders. Comprehensive
peer leaders, architects, and other cross-functional partners.
experience in software
Improving the cross functional productivity by defining best practices for design
architecture, development,
reviews, code reviews, performance bench-marking for the evolving team
planning, execution and
Streamlining the process and technology framework with necessary knowledge &
qualification of products in
inputs to enhance the overall value
multiple programming
Key Achievements
languages. Skilled at
Slashed the infrastructure cost 50% by modernizing the Whole Disk Encryption Reporting
developing improvement
service for tracking the non-compliant Amex devices
programs to emphasize
Decreased the yearly licensing cost 30% by building a in-house real-time tokenization
employee empowerment and
SaaS and Bulk Crypto solutions with better performance improvement and increased
worker participation by
TPS
establishing fair performance
Increased team's productivity by building a generic framework for functional and
metrics within the
performance measurement for the tools, SDKs and APIs
organization. Demonstrates
Increased partner satisfaction from 80% to 95% within a span of 2 years
team planning and

coordination to improve

product quality and increase Sr Engineering Mgr / Principal Engineer - Sep '14 - Sep '19

productivity Cryptography Research

Rambus Bangalore, India

KEY SKILLS
Directed the architecture, design and development of the the IoT Software Service,

Languages: Java/J2EE,
Crypto Manager and Key Manager Service products

Go, C#, C++, Nodejs

Coordinated the technical and business discussions relative to future architect

direction across cross-functional teams

Scripting: Unix, Shell and
Designed and Developed a python-based Test Framework along with Mock Servers to
Python
automate functional & system testing on rubbernecks cluster

Distributed systems Conducted POCs to illustrate approaches to technology & business problems

Liaised with teams of 20+ contractors to execute projects within deadlines

Messaging Queue:
Evaluated engineering deliverables and initiating appropriate corrective measures

Kafka, RabbitMQ,
throughout the project lifecycle

Zookeeper
Key Achievements
 Upgraded the native Crypto Manager platform to HTTPS App Server with open source
Microservices, Docker &
tools
Kubernetes, Helm
Designed and implemented the mesh network on the K8s cluster for secure, encrypted

Cloud: OpenShift, Azure, peer node communication

GCP Designed and implemented a simulator to simulate the personalization of 10M virtual

chips similar to the customer environment

Database: MySQL,
Mentored over 5 team members through a weekly session and 1-on-1 meetings
Postgres, MongoDB,
Contributed to the open source community for IoT Azure python SDK for managing
Cassandra, Redis,
device twins in large volume
memcache, InfluxDB,

Cosmos, Elastic Search

Principal Engineer - Architecture May '14 - Sep '14

Testing Tools: TestNG,

Diebold Nixdorf Mumbai, India
JUnit, PyTest, mockito,
Researched and drafted the architecture diagram, engineering plans for the the
Robot Framework,
modernization of the transaction flow of ATM
RestAssurred, Selenium,
Educated the team by providing feedback with design and review sessions by reviewing
SauceLab, Firebase Test
documents, specifications and code
Lab, Wiremock, NUnit,

Mountebank

Staff Engineer - Platform Security Oct '04 - May '14

Performance Tools:
Infineon Technologies Bangalore, India
Visual VM, JMeter,

Administrated the design and development of enterprise scale service for managing the
Gatling, Locust

desktops with TPM devices

Frameworks: Springboot, Executed the development of the TPM stack for the TPM Professional Package software

go-kit, Nodejs-express, solution

django Built Generic Authentication Device solution with due-diligence for new

business/opportunities
User Interface:
Implemented embedded linux solution on beagle board to integrate the hardware
AngularJS, React, WPF
secure element

Collaborated with application engineers and clients to develop system designs for
Cryptography: Trusted

enhancing user experience

Platform Module (TPM),

Drove the system test strategy & verification for the secure chips by designing a generic
Secure Key Box (SKB),

framework
Hardware Secure Module

Key Achievements
(HSM), PKI, Cryptoki,

Improved the testing strategies for signing of custom CSP & reduced the round trips
Crypto Service Provider

with Microsoft by 99%

(CSP), OpenSSL,

Resolved the critical integration issues in production at Germany with 99% yield in a
pyCrypto, BouncyCastle,

short span of time

SDLC Tools: Git, JIRA, Designed a custom Crypto Service Provider (CSP) to secure the 3rd party applications by

Artifactory, Nexus, using the cryptographic keys protected by TPM

Jenkins, Confluence Assisted the development team to make TPM v1.2 Management Suite Windows Vista

Ready
Apache Spark

CERTIFICATIONS Developer Aug '00 - Oct '04

Integral / Aztech Soft / Softspace Network Bangalore, India

Leadership: Harvard

Certificate in Leadership Developed, tested, and improved the codeDeveloped different components of Integral

Excellence Forex product and customized for various customers

Security: Certified Cloud quality of multiple desktop based application using Microsoft stack

Security Professional Debugged EAI products and determined the root cause of the problem related to design

(CCSP) | Jun, 2020 and validated design features

Agile: SAFe Certification Assisted the Lead Architect with implementing the features of the ERP product by

PATENTS adhering to the product team's feedback

EDUCATION
Diversified Software

Protection for

Cryptographic Keys Utkal University Jun '95 - Jun '99

BE - Metallurgical and Material Science IGIT, Sarang, India