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Pooja Shah

San Mateo,CA

Summary

Goal-oriented professional with experience in fast-paced environments. Forward-thinking when reviewing project requirements to determine efficient solutions. Composed professional when working under tight schedules and limited budgets to achieve innovative designs and exceeding objectives.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager, Software Dev Engineer

Trellix
10.2023 - 03.2024
  • Lead and owner of IVX Cloud
  • Continued to enhance and improve IVX Cloud and Email Security products via individual development efforts
  • Delivered new features and detection capabilities to customers.
  • Collaborated with product management, sales and customer support to plan quarterly and yearly roadmap
  • Completed SOC2 audit as engineering lead
  • Successfully and efficiently investigated and resolved customer escalations seen in IVX Cloud and Email Security products

Manager, Software Dev Engineer

Trellix
04.2023 - 10.2023
  • Continued to enhance and improve IVX Cloud, Email Security, and Auto-Classification products via individual development efforts
  • Successfully deployed IVX Cloud in multiple AWS commerical and govcloud regions.
  • Led development/re-implementation and integration of McAfee’s Chimera system into Auto-Classification
  • Designed an efficacy framework and Auto-Classification portal for new engine integration

Associate Manager, Software Dev Engineer

Trellix
08.2021 - 04.2023
  • Continued to enhance and improve IVX Cloud, Email Security, Auto-Classification and Guest Images products via individual development efforts
  • Created roadmap for feature development and release
  • Coordinated with QA, product management, customer service and sales for new feature development.
  • Investigated and deployed hotfixes for customer escalations
  • Spearheaded 23R1 Guest Images release
  • Developed a plugin framework to automate new detection engine integration with Auto-Classification

Senior Software Development Engineer

FireEye
07.2017 - 08.2021

IVX Cloud

  • As part of the early-stage development team, I helped create IVX Cloud, an config-driven cloud-based service that rapidly scans submitted content to identify malware.
  • Integrated IVX Cloud with various cloud services including MS Teams, MS Outlook, MS SharePoint, Azure, and Salesforce
  • Responsible for monitoring and maintaining the performance of the Intelligent Virtual Execution (IVX) engine in IVX Cloud
  • Implemented multiple features and conducted investigations on reported bugs/customer escalations in both commercial and GovCloud AWS regions

Email IVX

  • Collaborated on the enhancement of IVX Cloud's functionality through integration with Email Security product
  • Managed GovCloud Email IVX deployments for optimal performance
  • Directed the enhancement of features while also handling customer escalation investigations, debugging, and product maintenance across various commercial and GovCloud AWS regions

Guest Images (GIs)

  • Collaborated with hypervisor and virtualization teams to enhance Guest Image functionality and boost malware detection
  • Innovated a new mechanism for accelerating and optimizing Guest Image upgrades, resulting in improved performance

Web UI Artifacts

  • Designed and developed a scalable and efficient config-driven system for managing UI plugins in multiple detection products
  • Developed user-friendly plugins for displaying analyzed data from submitted objects and URLs
  • Designed infrastructure for UI plugins enabling daily updates and deployments of new artifacts and plugins

Titan

  • Redesigned and implemented FireEye Dynamic Threat Intelligence Cloud in AWS
  • Achieved optimized system capability for successful management of vast volumes of malicious and telemetry data

Automated Triage System (ATS)

  • Ensured successful feature development and fixes for ATS
  • Developed a proof-of-concept random-forest classifier for analyzing customer submissions and identifying false-negatives

Software Development Engineer

FireEye
05.2015 - 07.2017

Guest Images (GIs)

  • Constructed Windows, OS X, and Linux VMs to investigate and analyze advanced forms of malware
  • Maintained back-end framework of Guest Images
  • Developed automated system to create Guest Images for both Windows and OS X
  • Enhanced efficiency of updating procedures by implementing improved measures for GI creation, download, and installation
  • Effectively addressed customer concerns related to Guest Image download and installation

Automated Triage System (ATS)

  • Developed telemetry data gathering framework

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA
03-2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA
06-2014

Skills

  • Python
  • C
  • C
  • Java
  • AWS Lambda
  • ElasticSearch
  • S3
  • SQS
  • SNS
  • Athena
  • DynamoDB
  • KMS
  • EC2
  • ECS
  • ECR
  • Firehose
  • IAM
  • SOC2
  • FedRamp
  • REST APIs
  • Django
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub
  • Perforce
  • Agile
  • Waterfall
  • Scrum
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration

Timeline

Senior Manager, Software Dev Engineer

Trellix
10.2023 - 03.2024

Manager, Software Dev Engineer

Trellix
04.2023 - 10.2023

Associate Manager, Software Dev Engineer

Trellix
08.2021 - 04.2023

Senior Software Development Engineer

FireEye
07.2017 - 08.2021

Software Development Engineer

FireEye
05.2015 - 07.2017

Master of Science - Computer Science

California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
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