Academic CV - Punit Gupta

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Punit

Gupta

Software Engineer at Facebook Inc., Menlo Park, California, USA

Security, Large Scale Distributed Systems, Data Infrastructure, Monitoring & Observability, Security & Privacy in Log Analytics

Bay Area, California, USA

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About

An expert, innovator & researcher in the Technology Industry with more than 14 years of industry experience and specialization in Cyber-Security (Web Security, Cloud Security, Network and Enterprise Security), Secure Remote Access, Clientless-SSLVPN, Application-Networking, Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Digital Workspace.

Record of multiple inventions in those domains. Successfully authored and submitted 8 patent publications so far. 6 of those patents have been already granted/approved by ‘United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)’ while remaining 2 are under-process. These patents are also highly cited.

Successfully incorporated those inventions into commercial products and services that have benefited organizations, industry and workforce around the globe.

Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=uVOgl1oAAAAJ

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/punit-gupta-32868049/

List of granted/approved patents: https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=IN%2Fgupta-punit&d=PTXT

List of all patents (granted & pending): https://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=gupta+punit&FIELD1=IN&co1=AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=PG01

Research Interests

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Cyber-Security (Web Security, Cloud Security, Enterprise Security)Secure Remote Access Clientless-SSLVPN Application Networking Large-Scale Distributed Systems Privacy Digital Workspace Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

Professional Skills

Systems Programming

LDAP

TCP/IP

C++

Algorithms & Problem Solving

ADC

Distributed Systems

Cloud Computing

HTTP

SSLVPN

Data Structures

Clientless-SSLVPN

Security (Cloud, Web, Enterprise Security)

Application Networking

Python

Work Experience

Software Engineer

Facebook July 2021 - Present

Menlo Park, California, United States

Principal Software Engineer

Citrix October 2018 - July 2021

San Francisco Bay Area

Staff Software Engineer

Citrix December 2016 - September 2018

San Francisco Bay Area

Staff Software Engineer

Citrix October 2014 - November 2016

Bengaluru Area, India

Senior Software Development Engineer 2

Citrix October 2012 - September 2014

Bengaluru Area, India

Senior Software Development Engineer 1

Citrix November 2010 - September 2012

Bengaluru Area, India

Software Development Engineer

Citrix July 2007 - September 2010

Bengaluru Area, India

Education

IIIT Hyderabad

2005 - 2007

Master of Technology (M.Tech.) , Computer Science & Engineering

Patents

Systems and methods for securely and transparently proxying SAAS applications through a cloud-hosted or on-premise network gateway for enhanced security and visibility

Issued | Sep 15 2020 | US | 10,778,684

https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=2&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=gupta-punit.INNM.&OS=IN/gupta-punit&RS=IN/gupta-punit

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Systems and methods for policy driven fine grain validation of servers' SSL certificate for clientless SSLVPN access

Issued | May 12 2020 | US | 10,652,229

https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=3&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=gupta-punit.INNM.&OS=IN/gupta-punit&RS=IN/gupta-punit

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Split-tunneling for clientless SSL-VPN sessions with zero-configuration

Issued | Oct 20 2020 | US | 10,812,448

https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=gupta-punit.INNM.&OS=IN/gupta-punit&RS=IN/gupta-punit

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Systems and methods for a unique mechanism of providing `clientless SSLVPN` access to a variety of web-applications through a SSLVPN gateway

Issued | Nov 19 2019 | US | 10,484,336

https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=4&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=gupta-punit.INNM.&OS=IN/gupta-punit&RS=IN/gupta-punit

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Accessing enterprise resources while providing denial-of-service attack protection

Issued | May 17 2016 | US | 9,344,426

https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=6&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=gupta-punit.INNM.&OS=IN/gupta-punit&RS=IN/gupta-punit

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Systems and methods for using end point auditing in connection with traffic management

Issued | Feb 16 2016 | US | 9,264,429

https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=7&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=gupta-punit.INNM.&OS=IN/gupta-punit&RS=IN/gupta-punit

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Systems and methods for using end point auditing in connection with traffic management

Issued | Sep 23 2014 | US | 8,844,040

https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=8&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=gupta-punit.INNM.&OS=IN/gupta-punit&RS=IN/gupta-punit

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Systems and methods for enabling an application management service to remotely access enterprise application store

Pending | US | 20140366080

https://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=9&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=%22gupta+punit%22.IN.&OS=IN/%22gupta+punit%22&RS=IN/%22gupta+punit%22

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Prizes and Awards

Hackathon Winner

Citrix Systems | Aug 2019

Citrix Rock Star Award

Citrix Systems | Jun 2019

Hackathon Runner Up

Citrix Systems | Aug 2017

Citrix All Star Award

Citrix Systems | Mar 2014

Dean's Merit List (Masters at IIIT Hyderabad)

IIIT Hyderabad | May 2007

Scholarship during Masters

Government of India (Ministry of HRD) : through GATE-2005 | Feb 2005

Scholarship & Merit-Certificate for securing 19th rank in State of Madhya Pradesh in Higher Secondary (12th Grade) Examination

Government of India (Ministry of HRD) : through National Scholarship Scheme | Jul 1999

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