Mandar Gokhale is a product manager with 12 years of experience building data and infrastructure products across networks, security, and insurtech domains. He combines hands-on engineering experience—from network protocol work and DDoS testing to cloud-native pipelines—with a product mindset that prioritizes user needs and operational constraints. At Acrisure he leads internal data platform efforts used by multiple engineering and analytics teams, and previously spun up a customer data logs product and SRE practices at Duo Security. His background includes deep networking expertise (BGP, TCP/IP, IPv6) and practical open-source contributions to tools like netsniff-ng and legacy web projects, reflecting a knack for fixing subtle protocol and security issues. Based in Ann Arbor, he pairs rigorous technical training (BITS, University of Michigan) with a pragmatic approach to shipping observable, scalable systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Electrical Engineering : Systems, Communications, Signal Processing, Masters, Electrical Engineering : Systems, Communications, Signal Processing at University of Michigan
B.E. (Hons.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B.E. (Hons.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science
A Swiss army knife for your daily Linux network plumbing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Mandar primarily contributed to the `mausezahn` component of the `netsniff-ng` project, focusing on network packet generation and manipulation. Their work involved implementing IPv6 functionality, including the correct use of link-local addresses and handling address family mismatches. They also addressed a bug in reading GeoIP mirror addresses from a configuration file. The contributions centered on enhancing the robustness and correctness of the tool for network testing and analysis.
Contributions summary:Mandar primarily contributed to bundling dependencies and improving the documentation generation process. They bundled necessary modules, such as Sphinx, for local documentation generation, streamlining the development workflow. Additionally, they addressed a security vulnerability related to project names by stripping HTML tags, improving the application's security posture. Further contributions involved code style improvements via autopep8.
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