Atharva Gham
Davis, CA
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WORK EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer (Security & Systems), DMV Music Alliance, Washington DC
January 2025 - Present
- Engineered and maintained highly available distributed backend services in Go and Python.
- Diagnosed and resolved performance bottlenecks across a microservices architecture, significantly reducing latency and improving throughput.
- Traced complex deviations to root cause using OpenTelemetry and championed automated self-healing workflows that reduced operational toil by 20%.
- Worked across application and network layers to implement high-signal observability while adapting to changing infrastructure priorities.

Development and Testing Intern, Code Gurukul, Pune, India
June 2021 - December 2021
- Profiled and optimized Linux-based backend services, improving API responsiveness for 4,300+ users.
- Managed server configuration and release workflows using automated Bash tooling across distributed environments.
- Participated in system design reviews and applied algorithmic optimizations to backend API implementations.

CORE ENGINEERING PROJECTS

Event Ingestion and Observability Pipeline
- Designed and implemented a concurrent event-ingestion pipeline with queue-backed workers, retry behavior, and backpressure-aware service boundaries.
- Optimized ingestion logic and network protocols including TLS and IPsec for fault-tolerant, low-latency streaming.
- Managed the lifecycle from system design through production rollout, runtime visibility, and operational hardening.

AI Security & Agentic Workflow Automation
- Conducted adversarial security reviews of LLM-integrated automation agents, identifying prompt injection and insecure tool-use vulnerabilities.
- Designed multi-agent Python-based security automation workflows to triage 1,000+ daily alerts.

Advanced Binary Research & Exploit Development
- Reverse engineered 32/64-bit binaries to understand memory operations and CPU/kernel interactions.
- Utilized GDB and advanced dynamic analysis to trace memory corruption faults and developed optimized C/C++ patches.
- Worked directly with OS-level primitives and memory allocators.

Web Vulnerability Research & Remediation Tooling
- Built automated Python tooling to replicate and fingerprint SQL injection and XSS patterns across production environments.
- Authored secure coding guidance and implemented Semgrep and CodeQL rules in CI/CD pipelines.

Security Monitoring & IAM Compliance Automation
- Engineered a centralized ELK-based monitoring platform ingesting logs from 13+ distributed systems.
- Developed behavioral detection rules and automated response triggers to identify indicators of compromise.
- Automated cryptographic key and SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management to ensure zero downtime and regulatory compliance.

EDUCATION

University of Maryland, College Park
Master of Engineering, Cybersecurity
August 2023 - May 2025

Vishwakarma University, Pune
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering
IBM Cybersecurity & Forensics Graduate Program
August 2018 - July 2022

CERTIFICATIONS

- Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
- IBM Cyber Security and Forensics Graduate

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, Bash, SQL
Systems & Low-Level: Linux Internals, OS Schedulers, TCP/IP Packet Inspection, Socket Programming, System Optimization, Latency Reduction
Distributed Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Microservices, AWS, Azure, High-Availability Architectures
Debugging & Tooling: GDB, Wireshark, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, GitHub Actions, CI/CD
Core Competencies: Root Cause Analysis, End-to-End Project Ownership, Reverse Engineering