Sahana Prasad
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolSahana Prasad is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in security-focused systems, cryptography, and embedded network stacks. Based in Nuremberg and currently at Red Hat, she combines deep C/C++ systems work with expertise in IPSec, TCP/IP, public-key and post-quantum crypto. Her master's in Communications Engineering from TUM and research roles (including a Fraunhofer thesis on microarchitectural attack analysis) underpin a strong analytical approach to secure protocol implementation. An active open-source contributor, she made notable LibreSwan contributions adding IKEv2 digital-signature support (RSA-PSS, ECDSA) and ASN.1 handling to ensure interoperability. She brings a rare blend of academic research, production-quality networking code, and hands-on cryptographic engineering to challenging security problems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Communications Engineering, Master's degree, Communications Engineering at Technical University Munich
English, Kannada, Hindi, German
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Github Skills (14)
ipsec10
it-security10
keyv10
c-programming10
cryptography10
security10
rsa9
asn19
ecdsa9
testing8
netcore6
visual-studio-code6
nuget-package6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
libreswan/libreswan
Aug 2017 - Sep 2018
libreswan
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 14 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Sahana primarily contributed to the LibreSwan project, focusing on implementing and enhancing IKEv2 protocol support, particularly around digital signature authentication. Their work involved modifying core C code to support RFC 7427 and RFC 8247, including adding support for RSA-PSS and ECDSA signatures. They also added test cases to ensure interoperability and addressed code redundancy. This included implementing ASN1 related functions and adding configurations to accommodate new authentication methods.
libreswanipsec
sahanaprasad07/libreswan
Jun 2017 - Dec 2020
libreswan
Contributions:58 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 6 months
laravelreactlibreswan
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