Naji Mohamed Abdulla

Naji Mohamed Abdulla has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. Naji began their career in 1999 as a Software Engineer at Wipro Technologies, where they worked on 64-bit porting of Oracle Enterprise Server and Teradata Database software, as well as developing a gateway module and redesigning the scratch memory management system. In 2004, they moved to Torry Harris Business Solutions as an Engineer, where they developed telecom top-up applications and used XML for event handling between pre-paid and post-paid systems. In 2007, they joined Juniper Networks as a Member Technical Staff, where they stabilized Cavium Hardware acceleration in Secure Access Platform, improved the MAC authentication performance numbers for the NAC solution, and enhanced the data-path performance of WAN acceleration product. In 2014, they moved to Pulse Secure as a Sr Staff Engineer, where they worked on the Policy Engine for Access Control and Application Monitoring using eBPF, and configuring network parameters on VPN gateways through SaaS controller. In 2021, they joined eBay as an MTS2.

Naji Mohamed Abdulla has an extensive educational background. Naji completed their Bachelor of Electronics and Communication from the University of Calicut in 1999, where they studied Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering. Naji then went on to earn their Master of Science in Software Systems from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in 2005. In addition, Abdulla has obtained numerous certifications from LinkedIn, including Cultivating a Growth Mindset (2022), Learning Jenkins (2021), Learning Python Generators (2021), Microservices: Security (2021), VPC Networking: Designing a Software Defined Data Center on AWS (2021), Go Essential Training (2020), Learning Redis (2020), Building APIs with Swagger and the OpenAPI Specification (2020), Learning Python with PyCharm (2020), AWS Essential Training for Architects (2020), Kubernetes: Microservices (2020), Learning Terraform (2020), CCSP Cert Prep: 4 Cloud Application Security (2019), IoT Foundations: Fundamentals (2019), JavaScript: Modern Browser APIs (2019), Learning Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (2019), Linux Foundation Cert Prep: Virtualization (Ubuntu) (2019), Software Design: Modeling with UML (2019), Elasticsearch Essential Training (2019), Learning Chrome Web Developer Tools (2019).