Arvind Srinivasa Babu

Senior Staff Engineer building secure, high-performance systems at scale.
I specialize in distributed systems, networking, product security, AI-assisted software engineering, and turning complex engineering challenges into elegant, scalable solutions.

:: WHOAMI

About

Arvind Srinivasa Babu
Senior Staff Engineer
Netskope · Bengaluru, India
Companies
NetskopeTrellix (Musarubra US LLC)McAfee India Private LimitedIntel SecurityProtechsoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

I am a Senior Staff Engineer and software architect with 15+ years of experience building secure, high-performance systems across Windows, Linux, and macOS.

My work focuses on modern C++, systems programming, networking, endpoint security, and cross-platform product architecture. I design and evolve software that operates close to the operating system, handles complex network traffic, and must remain reliable across large enterprise environments.

I have led platform modernization initiatives, re-architected monolithic components, improved build and delivery systems, and driven security architecture reviews and threat modelling across the software development lifecycle. I am also exploring how agentic AI and developer tooling can accelerate code understanding, architecture, debugging, and engineering productivity.

Systems Engineering
Modern C++, cross-platform architecture, concurrency, performance, and diagnostics
Networking & Security
TCP/IP, TLS/DTLS, secure connectivity, SASE, threat modelling, and secure design
Architecture & AI
Distributed systems, platform modernization, developer tooling, and AI-assisted engineering
15+
Years of Experience
4
Publications
1
Patent
68M+
Endpoint Product Scale
:: PATENTS

Patents

Methods and Apparatus for Secure Configuration of a Compute Device

Granted
Arvind Srinivasa Babu, Arthur S. Zeigler
US12244736B2 · Assignee: Musarubra US LLC (Trellix) · Filed 2023 · Granted 2025

Describes securely configuring an ePolicy Orchestrator endpoint installer — signing the embedded configuration with a certificate so it can be authenticated and verified as tamper-free at install and execution time.

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:: PUBLICATIONS

Publications

Structure, Design, Extensible and User Experience – Foundations for an Automation Framework

Published
Arvind Srinivasa Babu, Abhishek Sharma, Hemant Prasad

Our team works on a native application that is deployed on tens of millions of machines worldwide. Frequent release commitments, new features and the agile process, stresses our need to increasingly speed up our validation process and our use of automation. Over the course of the past decade, we developed couple of frameworks focused on features, services, or just simply automating our test suites. This worked well in the short-term but was unable to scale with our validation processes, which grew with every feature and release. In this paper, we will highlight some of our pitfalls and how we overcame them by structuring our automation suite, segregating design, test suites, and considering the user experience in adding new test cases and extending the framework itself.

Embedding Security in Product Life Cycle

Presented
Arvind Srinivasa Babu, Deepti Chauhan

A product goes through several processes before it is released into the market. An oversimplified process will involve a lot of planning, analysis, design, development, testing and marketing before a release. But how many products involve security in this lifecycle? During a product's lifecycle, a lot of new features, bug fixes and other development activities take place which essentially means that new code is being added. Though this code might stand up against good product test cases, what is the confidence level that this new code has not opened a backdoor or added a vulnerability that would allow an attacker to exploit, monitor or cause damage? This paper will explain how some best security practices can be incorporated within a product lifecycle. We will also demonstrate why it is essential to maintain threat models up-to-date for every release which allows automation of security test cases as the product evolves. Automated security test cases allow us to add security as part of a Continuous Integration(CI)/Continuous Delivery(CD) pipeline. There are several open source tools that allow testing different aspects of security on a product, we will glance over some of these tools and the functionality they bring to security testing.

Testing Cloud Hosted Solutions in Production

Presented
Arvind Srinivasa Babu, Sajeed Mayabba Kunhi, Joshy Jose A

The evolution of software from a simple application running in an isolated system to a multi-node solution in a network and now to a geographically distributed cloud solution with hundreds or thousands of nodes, has brought about new testing challenges. Testing strategies which work well in one model are not always applicable to others. While many of the tests for a cloud-hosted solution can be done by replicating a subset of the actual production environment, some tests need a production-like environment to be effective. This could be challenging if the hosted solution is complex or large. Though one might successfully replicate the production environment for testing, it is very difficult or too expensive to replicate end user behaviour, as the sample set of users in cloud could be very large. One option to overcome the given problem is to perform the testing in a live production environment. This paper attempts to bring forth the challenges and possible suggestions for testing cloud hosted solutions in a live production environment.

A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm Approach to a Departmental Class Timetabling Problem Using Efficient Data Structures

Published
Arvind Srinivasa Babu, Chockalingam R, S. Kavitha

The application of Genetic Algorithm with a local search operation performed within its loop has provided very accurate results, but the algorithm take a lot of time to arrive at an optimal solution. This paper describes the use of a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm using efficient data structures to automate the construction of a departmental class timetable. This problem is concerned with the allocation of faculty resources to concerned Student-Groups and their corresponding timeslots. The quality of the solution is determined in terms of a penalty value which determines the degree to which various constraints are satisfied. This algorithm is tested over established datasets and the performance of the algorithm over different datasets. The result has confirmed that this algorithm in conjuncture with efficient data structures is able to produce high quality solutions for a departmental class timetable with short span of time. It is thus concluded that organization of data plays a major role in the performance of the Hybrid Genetic Algorithm to produce high quality solutions.

:: EXPERIENCE

Experience

Netskope
Jul 2025 – Present · 1 role
Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
Jan 2022 – Jun 2025 · 2 roles
McAfee India Private Limited
Apr 2017 – Dec 2021 · 3 roles
Intel Security
Jul 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 role
McAfee India Pvt. Ltd.
Aug 2011 – Jun 2015 · 3 roles
Protechsoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Aug 2009 – Jul 2011 · 3 roles
:: EDUCATION

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Data Science and Engineering
BITS Pilani · Work Integrated Learning Programme (WILP), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 2021–2023
  • Completed coursework with a CGPA of 6.6/10.
  • Relevant Coursework: Data Mining, Graph Algorithms, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Statistical Methods for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence.
Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering (SSNCE)
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
Anna University · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · 2005–2010
  • Was part of the presentation team responsible for making the main presentation video for the National Level Technical Symposium - "Paradigm 2007"
  • Participated in a Two-day hands-on workshop on "Cell Architecture and Programming" held at SSNCE on Sept 12-13, 2008.
  • Attended the International Conference on High-Performance Architectures, Algorithms & Computing held at SSNCE on July 11th, 2007
  • Dissertation titled "A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm Approach to a Departmental Class Timetabling Problem Using Efficient Data Structures" 2009,Published in International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA)
S.B.O.A Matriculation and Higher Secondary School
XII Standard
Tamil Nadu State Board · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · 1990–2005
  • Secured 1151/1200 in board exams.
  • Secured 100% in Maths and Chemistry.
:: Expertise

Expertise

Languages
C++CPythonGoJavaC#
Systems Programming
Modern C++ (C++11/14/17/20)Win32 Native DevelopmentCross Platform DevelopmentMultithreading & ConcurrencyMemory ManagementPerformance OptimizationSystems DebuggingKernel Mode Development
Networking & Security
TCP/IPUDPTLS / DTLSSecure Access Service Edge (SASE)Security Service Edge (SSE)Zero Trust NetworkingEndpoint SecurityNetwork Diagnostics (Wireshark)
Software Architecture
Distributed SystemsSoftware ArchitectureHigh Performance SystemsScalable Client-Server ArchitecturePlatform EngineeringTechnical Design ReviewsEngineering Leadership
Cloud & DevOps
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon S3CloudFrontIAMGitHub ActionsCI/CDBuild Automation
AI Engineering
AI-assisted Software DevelopmentAgentic EngineeringClaude CodeOpenAI CodexMulti-Agent DevelopmentPrompt EngineeringAI-powered Code ReviewsRepository Knowledge Systems
Developer Tooling
GitGitHubGitHub ActionsVisual StudioBazelCMakeWireshark
Professional Expertise
Root Cause AnalysisPerformance EngineeringTechnical MentoringArchitecture GovernanceCross-functional CollaborationEngineering Productivity
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