About

Narendra P. is a highly skilled Lead Member of Technical Staff with over 20 years of relevant experience in the tech industry. He is currently working at Salesforce, leading efforts on WebAuthN, High Assurance Session Policy Handlers, and Multi Factor Authentication in the Auth Verification team. His primary responsibility is to add features to the Salesforce cloud to keep it secure, ensuring Fedramp Hi and FIPS compliance. He also specializes in information security using Java PKI and cryptography framework. Before joining Salesforce, Narendra worked at IBM as an API Connect Security Architect, where he led the APIConnect security team in building a highly flexible and pluggable authentication framework that supports various user registration and authentication modules like LUR, LDAP, and Auth URL. He was also responsible for implementing certificate generation/handshake modules for different versions of APIConnect systems so that various trusted subsystems could connect securely using dynamically generated certificates on mutual TLS enabled socket channels. Narendra is a technology enthusiast and a Sun certified Java programmer. He has experience in Java, Nodejs, Mongo, LDAP, Rest, Cassandra, OAuth, OIDC, Cryptography, k8 secret management, and Performance. Narendra is also a Business Process Management Application and SOA Architect. He has architected solutions for customers in various areas such as Java, JMS, Webservices, Messaging, and High Availability (Network Deployment). He has built solutions across verticals such as insurance, banking, and travel on WPS/WID. Narendra holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Warangal. He is a software engineer with extensive experience in Salesforce, Java, MongoDB, Cassandra, NodeJS, and infra. Narendra has been a Senior Software Engineer for over 20 years and has worked with numerous companies during his career. He is a development focal point for all security audits, export regulation, APIConnect penetration risk assessment, CISO review, application scans, and PSIRT. Narendra is a highly skilled and experienced professional who can add value to any organization he joins.