• Innovative, hard working with strong software development expertise and careful attention to detail and quality. • Proven ability to quickly and effectively (self-) learn new technologies and programming languages and adapt to new environments and methodologies. • Successful in researching, designing, developing, and managing concepts and software with a mind for business objective and high-level vision. • Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and educate across teams and organizations. Technical Skills: • Object-oriented development: C#, C++, Java • Web development: HTML, Javascript, JQuery, CSS, PHP • Database development: MySQL, SQL • APIs: OpenAuth/ID, RESTful, SOAP, Google, Web Services • Platforms: Windows, .NET, Mac, Unix (an old friend)

Principal Software Engineer; Mobile Team, Technical Architect @ From February 2014 to Present (1 year 9 months) Cambridge, MASr. Architect and Developer @ Responsible for end-to-end software product development and deployment. SaaS Platform Development • Independently designed and implemented a robust version 1.0 SaaS Platform for Direct Mail bidding and project management based on an earlier Beta implementation for a client. • Added extensible frameworks and complex features such as role-based access control, auditing, account management, flexible project state model, notification and task module, and a template-based messaging layer. • Responsible for entire product life cycle including requirements analysis, design, development, internal demos, QA, release engineering, and product release. • Authored functional specifications as part of the design process and 100+ page technical documentation as reference for future development team (with Visio, class, and database diagrams). • Development: MS .NET C#, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, SQL Product Conception and Development • Filed a provisional patent for a unique interpretation of email marketing data. • Designed and implemented a Beta version of a product that would highlight this new concept with data analysis and visualization tools. • Development: MS .NET C#, client of RESTful APIs, OpenAuth, OpenID From January 2013 to February 2014 (1 year 2 months) Burlington, MAProgram Manager, Security @ Part-time telecommuting position to oversee the security of integration efforts between Groove and existing MS Technologies. • Designed and managed features to integrate MS Office Groove's strong cryptographic protocols (using RSA, AES, HMAC, PKI) into Microsoft’s SharePoint Server and Active Directory. • Conducted security reviews throughout the product-base. From 2005 to 2007 (2 years) Development Manager, Security Architect @ Managed the company’s security development team including responsibilities as a primary team developer, cross-organization security consultant, and a representative spokesperson facing outside clients and developers. • Designed and implemented unique (patented) security and cryptographic protocols, to deliver state-of-the-art cryptographic/security-enabled features, above and beyond FIPS/NIAP requirements - for on-wire and on-disk protection and authentication of data. • Security liaison to various departments, including ---> Legal (for patents and federal regulations) ---> Documentation (for FIPS/NIAP docs and end-user/admin docs) ---> Sales & Marketing (for customer presentations and public media) ---> Education (for teaching platform developers) ---> Product Management (for architecting features from customer requirements). • Performed security reviews and worked extensively with various development leads to ensure secure implementation of their features. • Collaborated extensively with the UI team to design and develop (patented) user-friendly always-on security features throughout the product-base. • Development: C++, ATL/COM; Platform: Windows NT, Windows 98. From 2002 to 2005 (3 years) Beverly, MAPrincipal Software Engineer, Security Czar - Infrastructure Team @ Actively engaged in the startup atmosphere with contribution to the original development of the platform’s infrastructure - an effort to deliver a scalable, widely distributable, robust, secure yet user-friendly, communications product. • Co-implemented a multi-process, cache-coherent, performance-sensitive storage system built upon Windows Shared Memory. • Engaged in design discussions and brainstorming sessions on various features of the platform. • Designed and implemented security protocols for various features in the product, using standard cryptographic algorithms such as AES, HMAC, PBKDF, and RSA. • Analyzed and addressed performance issues using off-the-shelf profiling tools. • Debugged and tested various multi-threading and synchronization issues. • Wrote extensive internal and external documentation of the various security aspects (guarantees, weaknesses, protocols, etc.) of the product. • Development: C++, ATL/COM; Platform: Windows NT, Windows 98. From 1998 to 2002 (4 years) Beverly, MASenior Research Engineer - Web and Security Technologies @ • One of the principal engineers of a widely distributable, commercially available, embeddable, Java- compliant Virtual Machine. • Designed and implemented support for dynamic class loading and the algorithm for class garbage collection. • Designed and implemented support for variable display in the VM debugger. • Advisor for the design and implementation of Java Reflection support. • Tested extensively and corrected the implementation of the Java Native Interface. • Language: C++; Java; Platform: HP-UX. • One of the principal authors of an approved DARPA research proposal on policy enforcement for mobile code. From September 1997 to August 1998 (1 year) Research Assistant - Advanced Network Architecture @ • Investigated a safe mechanism for placing more flexible policies on Java applets. • Designed and implemented a parser for a simple constraint language with which users can specify history-based policies on applets. Also introduced a feature for dynamically labeling applets according to their past actions. • Presented a scenario of a time-delayed storage channel that is introduced with history-based conditional accesses. • Designed and implemented logging facilities for storing applet accesses to system resources. • Language: Java; Platform: Solaris. From September 1996 to May 1997 (9 months) Cambridge, MATeaching Assistant - Laboratory in Software Engineering (6.170) @ • Taught object-oriented concepts and techniques relevant to the production of scalable, extensible, and reliable software systems. Topics included programming methodology, abstraction, specification, design, and testing. • Responsible for a recitation section of 25 (2nd- 4th year) students. • Language: C++; Platform: Solaris. From September 1996 to December 1996 (4 months) Cambridge, MATeaching Assistant - Structure & Interpretations of Computer Science (6.001) @ • Taught an introductory CS course covering topics such as abstraction, data structures, object-oriented programming, and compilers. • Responsible for 30 (1st year) students in tutorials of 3-4 students each. • Language: Scheme; Platform: UNIX. From February 1996 to May 1996 (4 months) Cambridge, MA

BS, MEng, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 1992 to 1997 Stuyvesant High School From 1988 to 1992 Nimisha Asthagiri is skilled in: Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Agile Methodologies, Software Engineering, Security Management, SaaS, Distributed Systems, Security, XML, Product Management, Java, Databases, Integration, Scalability, SQL