Curriculum Vitae

Alexander Slesarev

Calgary, AB | XXX-XXX-XXXX | alex.slesarev@gmail.com | https://nuald.blogspot.com

Software Engineering Technical Leader - Cisco Meraki | 2021 - present

  • Assisting in deployment and optimization of Secure Threat Services ecosystem (Snort, Talos Intelligence integration, Click, C/C++, Lua, Go, Python, Ruby, Redis).

  • Extend and redesign MX Security Features (AMP, STS) to work in IPv6 and mixed IPv4/IPv6 networks (Click, C/C++).

  • Extend and redesign MX Security Features (STS, NBAR) to efficiently work on high-end MX appliances having multi-core Click (lockfree algorithms, Click, C/C++, Lua, Go, Rust).

  • Upskilling the company employees and new hires on MX Security Features, Click configuration, cryptography (including FIPS and PCI certification) and performance optimizations.

Lead Software Development Engineer - NuData Security/Mastercard | 2014 - 2021

  • Designed and created a codegenerator for the shared classes and enumerations (Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, Objective-C, Swift, Gradle/Groovy, ANTLR4, JSON, YAML).

  • Created mobile SDKs with the biometrics monitoring features (iOS, Android, UWP).

  • Created SDKs to communicate with the analytics servers (Python, JavaScript, Perl, REST).

  • Created a cryptography core of a custom 3DS SDK (TypeScript/JavaScript, JWT, ECDH-ES, X.509).

  • Assisted in developing the analytics engine used for monitoring and preventing malicious activity against web endpoints (PHP, Python, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, HDFS/S3, OpenAPI).

  • Supervised the security certification of mobile 3DS SDKs (iOS, Android, NIST SP 800-22).

  • Improved the development environment tooling (Java, Ruby, Python, Go, AsciiDoc, Docker).

  • Upskilling the team members on cryptography and operating systems internals.

Team Lead/Software Developer - Fortinet | 2011 - 2014

  • Embedded Python language into FortiGate and FortiAnalyzer (C/C++, Python, Cython).

  • Assisted in developing and performance tuning of FortiGate JSON API (C/C++).

  • Assisted in developing FortiGate WebUI (C/C++, Python, JavaScript, Cython, Jinja, Django).

  • Assisted in fixing security vulnerabilities like CSRF, XSS, DDOS etc (C, Ruby, Metasploit).

  • Improved the development environment tooling (Python, Jenkins, Gerrit/Git).

  • Improved the hiring process by introducing the written tests and levels of complexity.

Project Manager/Lead Software Developer - Elena Engineering | 2004 - 2010

  • Designed and created a teleconferencing system (C++, Qt, FFmpeg, UDP, RTP/RTCP).

  • Created a management plane for a Rapidly Deployable Network System (C#, C++, CC EAL 4, FIPS 140-2, SNMP, SOAP, VoIP, PSTN, QoS, PoE, WAP).

  • Created an EPOC32 (Symbian OS) PDA management system (C++, MFC, TFTP).

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