About

Brijesh Valera is a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in cloud and box-based network security solutions. He is currently working as a Staff Software Engineer at Trellix, which is a combination of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye. Brijesh has a strong background in C programming and has extensive knowledge of IPS/IDS systems, DPI, protocol parsing, traffic classification, and multi-tenant cloud-based application detection. He is also proficient in multi-tenant seamless configuration push. In his previous role as a Senior Software Engineer at Akamai, Brijesh was responsible for developing multi-tenant traffic classification that supports protocols like HTTP, TLS, SIP, and DNS. He also designed and developed a multi-tenant IPS/IDS system called Hawkeye, which supports seamless multi-customer configuration in a single instance. Additionally, he worked on the Security Connector 1.0 VM, which functions like a honeypot that tracks infected machine IPs. Brijesh also has experience in AWS DevOps, VPC management with Terraform and Ansible scripts, and auto-upgrades software through the client. Prior to Akamai, Brijesh worked as a Software Engineer at Cyberoam, where he designed and developed STALO - Application Filter, a kernel module that restricts application usage to users. He also designed and developed Link Watch Dog, which is a WAN link monitoring system. Brijesh was involved in pre-sales and client calls and also worked on Openswan IPSec VPN integration and management. Brijesh holds a Master of Computer Applications from Ahmedabad University and a Bachelor in Computer Application from Dharmsihn Desai University. He is proficient in various technologies such as Software Engineering, AWS, Ansible, Terraform, and DevOps. With over 10 years of relevant experience, Brijesh is a highly skilled and knowledgeable Principal Software Engineer in the field of cloud and box-based network security solutions.