Senior Research Scientist
FireEye, Inc.
Total years of experience :15 years, 3 Months
Senior Research Scientist - Web drive-by attacks - Malware Analysis - Zero Day Attacks - Advanced network forensics
Leading the web analysis and automation processes related to web drive-by attacks including exploit kits and other miscellaneous attacks + payload analysis. Reverse engineering of web attacks, creating new web attacks from scratch using known attack traffic for analysis & testing purposes as well as other goodies using open source penetration testing platforms.
Conducting Labs for subjects like Operating Systems, Embedded Systems, Object Oriented Programming, Data Structures, etc. Besides this, doing research projects in the field of embedded systems, Digital Signal Processing and Networking.
I worked on and completed two projects while being in this company.
1) I designed a Digital Video Broadcast (cable) Receiver module using STi5197 development environment provided by ST Microelectrinics.
2) I developed a TimeCOS Smart Card based authorization CAS system for this project using TimeCOS based smart cards.
3) Later on, I undertook a project in which a Digital Video Broadcast (satellite) Receiver was developed using Montage Technology's CS2200 development environment.
4) I developed various Linux based card sharing protocols using which, data from various users was transmitted online to a remote server and the server used to perform those operations using its own dedicated and pre-programmed Smart Card, returning the results to senders in order to implement a remote card based secure access system.
I lead the Embedded Systems department in this company after being handpicked by the management since I had been doing various industry based projects during my educational life in the university. We used to design various embedded system modules. I also undertook a Digital Design project and implemented various designs using FPGAs.
I carried out some projects during my student life and one of the major projects which I did was for Micro Electronics (Private Limited). I made an automatic re-configurable Battery Charger which could charge Li-Ion, Lead Acid, Ni-Cad, Nickel Metal Hydride batteries without modifying the hardware and just doing slight changes to the software.
I did several extra industry based projects to support myself financially throughout my career. I participated in programming competitions, received various certificates and above everything, my final year project which was on Analog Speech Scrambling / Descrambling was something that polished me the most. One of the biggest honors for me is that the Engineering Economics and Management text book which is being taught in the university was written by my professor and my research work has been made a part of this book in the field of Islamic Economic system and alternatives of conventional insurance.