Rajeev Vokkarne is a Principal Engineer focused on Azure Security with a decade of experience building and hardening IoT protocols and services. He designs and implements MQTT, AMQP, WebSocket and HTTP REST APIs for Azure IoT Hub while driving authentication and authorization features to keep device communication secure at scale. His background in real-time and telecom protocols (SIP, RTP, CDMA2000, EVDO, LTE) informs pragmatic, low-latency solutions for cloud-connected devices. At Microsoft he has contributed backend fixes and resilience improvements to the widely used azure-iot-sdk-csharp, demonstrating attention to robustness such as thumbprint validation and transport timeout tuning. Based in Sammamish, WA, he blends deep protocol knowledge with practical security engineering to deliver reliable IoT platform components.
A C# SDK for connecting devices to Microsoft Azure IoT services
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rajeev primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the C# SDK for Azure IoT services. Their work involved fixing an issue by adding a missing prefix to the 'using' clause for WindowsAzure.Storage.Blob. They added and refactored code for thumbprint validation, and resolved timing out issues by increasing a timeout constant within the AmqpTransportHandler. This demonstrates a focus on improving the SDK's robustness and functionality.
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Rajeev Vokkarne - Principal Engineer, Azure Security at Microsoft