Raja Karmegam
Principal Engineer at Netskope
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRaja Karmegam is a Principal Engineer based in Bengaluru with 9 years of deep experience building distributed back-end security systems focused on protecting data in transit. He has designed and shipped TLS interception for SASE Secure Web Gateway products and implemented TLS 1.3 with out-of-band PSK across multiple companies, combining hands-on C systems work with cloud-native signing and certificate automation using AWS services. Raja has contributed security-critical patches to the widely used OpenSSL project, including TLS 1.3 key exchange and cipher-suite fixes, reflecting real-world cryptography and interoperability expertise. His background spans integrating hardware crypto engines, DTLS for constrained devices, and high-availability switchover features, showing a rare blend of embedded, network, and cloud security engineering. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, production-ready solutions that turn complex protocol requirements into auditable implementations.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech Computer Science, Master of Technology - MTech Computer Science at Mepco Schlenk Engineering CollegeBachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sree Sowdambika College of Engineering
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Github Skills (10)
ss10
sslv310
ssl10
openssl10
encryption10
cryptography10
tls1310
decryption10
api-design9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openssl/openssl
Jan 2019 - May 2020
TLS/SSL and crypto library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:19 commits, 21 PRs, 124 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Raja's contributions primarily focused on enhancing TLS/SSL and crypto library functionality within the OpenSSL project. They implemented and tested TLS 1.3 key exchange and ciphersuite support, including FFDHE key exchange algorithms. Additionally, the user addressed a crash related to early data transmission with out-of-band PSK using AES CCM, demonstrating involvement in security-critical aspects of the library. The commits also involved bug fixes and API enhancements related to key exchange, security, and cipher suites.
crypto-librarycryptographyssltlscrypto
TalkWithTLS/TalkWithTLS
Oct 2018 - Sep 2022
Talk With TLS: [D]TLS usage Samples, Test and much more
Contributions:411 commits, 51 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 years 11 months
tlsssl
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