Hussaina Begum N.

About Hussaina Begum N.

I have 21 years of experience in designing and developing security products and solutions for operating systems and networking stacks.My work experience so far:VMware India R&D Pvt. Ltd:Development of L3VPN features on NSX-T from 2.2 release on wards, some features added- Aggregation APIs to report the VPN status and statistics from NSX-T Edges to NSX-T Manager- Bypass rules support for VPN- Stateful HA support for VPN- Operations and serviceability improvements - exporting VPN metrics to Wavefront/TSDB- Crypto compliance related work for VPN- REST API implementation for configuring L2VPN/L3VPN sessions on a new Edge platform. Cisco Systems- Development & Support of Identity, Base Security and MACSec features of Catalyst 2K/3K/4K switches- Development of Wired Guest Access feature for Catalyst 4500 switches- Contributed to NAT feature development for one of the Catalyst 4500 switching platforms- Lead the L2 security services effort on a new vendor based ASIC and new CPU architecture.Citrix Systems- Designed and implemented features(ICMP support, HA) of a new Citrix Access Gateway product & CloudGateway product- Contributed to support efforts of the SSLVPN functionality of existing NetScaler product- Sustenance efforts of ICA Proxy mode, Clientless VPN, modulesIBM India Systems & Technology Labs- Developed a security hardening tool AIXpert(AIX Security Expert) for AIX Operating system, an Enterprise level server operating system in AIX 5.3 release- Contributed to RBAC implementation on AIX 6.1 release- Implemented IPSec/IKEv2 (RFC4306) protocol for AIX 6.1 release.My community engagement so far:WomenWhoCode Pune- Delivered a session on Docker networking - Planning and execution of an eight part series on \"Data Structures and Algorithms for interview preparation\"- Delivered sessions on Time Complexity analysis and Dynamic programming as part of the DSA seriesOpensource contributions- Contributing to CNCF Sandbox project Meshery, as a maintainer for mesheryctl - Program Committe member for ServiceMeshCon EU22, KubeCon EU23, KubeCon China23, KubeCon NA23, KubeCon EU24, KubeCon IN24 and KubeCon IN25APNIC- APNIC52 and APNIC54 fellow - APNIC56 Fellowship Committee Member

Experience

1. Sr Staff Engineer

   Netskope

   Oct 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• National Institute of Technology Calicut

  M.tech, Computer Science & Engineering

  2002 — 2004

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Xml
• Ike
• Network Security
• Gdb
• 802.1x
• Systems Programming
• Catalyst Switches
• Computer Security
• Access Gateway
• Ipv6
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Cryptography
• Cloud Computing
• Operating Systems
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Rbac
• Ksh
• Openssl
• Shell Scripting
• Vpn
• Perl
• Linux
• Unix
• Problem Solving
• Debugging
• Software Development
• Switching
• Dbx
• Network Address Translation (Nat)
• Security
• Awk
• Cisco Ios
• Professional Mentoring
• Unix Security
• Algorithm Analysis
• Tcp/Ip
• Ibm Aix
• C
• Patents
• Ipsec