About

Prashant Iyer is a highly skilled Software Engineer II - Security at Databricks with over 6 years of relevant experience. He has a strong technical background in Golang, Python, C, C++, Java, and Haskell, and is experienced in building robust, highly scalable web service applications using Golang, Python, and JavaScript frameworks. He also has experience in writing and consuming RESTful web services, version controls, AWS, and Python scripting. Prashant has a proven track record of successfully contributing to projects on Network (IoT, VPN) and System Security (AFL, OSS). He has also contributed to the efi-whitelist project at Intel Security, designing a tool for detecting corrupt, invalid, or missing efi binaries in the system by validating contents of firmware on supported systems. Moreover, he has analyzed and instrumented Security assessment tools like chipsec, AFL, and OSS-fuzzer to detect vulnerabilities in open-source C/C++ libraries. Prashant's technical expertise extends to relational and non-relational databases like MySQL, Mongo DB, Cassandra DB, and DynamoDB. He has a strong understanding of search engine optimization, which makes him a valuable asset to any team. His knowledge of containers like Docker, web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AngularJS, NodeJS, and databases like Elastic Search, PostgreSQL, and MySQL further adds to his diverse skill set. Prashant has previously worked as a Software Development Engineer at McAfee, where he worked on the Secure Home Platform and Safeconnect VPN projects, using technologies like C, Python, Golang, AWS, and Linux. He has also worked as a Software Engineer at Shipt. Overall, Prashant is an accomplished Software Engineer with an impressive range of technical skills and experience in building secure and scalable web services.