Paras Jain

Paras Jain

A Technology professional with 5+ years in building scalable cloud security solutions at NetApp and networking products at Qualcomm. Experience in delivering customer-centric features, with a focus on driving efficiency and cross-functional collaboration.

Work Experience:

5.3 Years

Industry:

Technology

Function:

Software Engineering

Work Experience

NetApp India Pvt. Ltd. (An American MNC that provides cloud data services and storage solutions to its enterprise customers) | Bengaluru

  • Member of Technical Staff - Spot Security
    • Led Backend API development for core product modules including risk analysis and compliance features, contributing to 20% expansion of product portfolio.
    • Architected and implemented, critical features such as Auto Remediation, Azure Topology, and CloudTrail Events analysis, directly addressing customer requirements. Thus, achieving multi-cloud support and feature parity with competing products.
    • Enhanced product performance and user experience by reducing API response time for risk-based event insights from 10+ seconds to a under 5 seconds through database optimization, consisting of millions of rows.
    • Established technical integration framework across 20+ member multi-cultural team enabling foundational work for Auto Remediation and Notifications features.
    • Mentored and guided backend developers in technical design, engineering planning, and code reviews, building towards team growth and project success.
    • Developed the on-demand data collection ETL pipeline using AWS services like Lambda, Step Functions, SQS and CloudFormation, enabling real-time collection of customer cloud account configurations to provide updated results and improve customer experience.
    • Broadened product security coverage and strengthened its compliance capabilities by developing AWS and Azure based security rules aligned with critical industry standards (SOC2, NIST, HIPAA), implemented through automated Python scripts and integrated into the product cloud stack and pipeline.
    • Designed an algorithm for Azure Cloud Network Topology feature to identify overlapping network configurations and leverage graph visualization (keylines) to provide customers with actionable insights into their security architectures.
    • Developed a highly requested customer feature: the Reporting Engine, providing detailed risk profiles, compliance reports and threat assessments to empower customers with comprehensive insights for evaluating and strengthening their cloud security posture.
    • Managed and optimized the AWS CodePipeline for the API repository, ensuring seamless and timely feature releases across development, testing and production environments.
    • Authored Product Requirement and Engineering Planning Documents for major features, collaborating closely with product managers and cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with customer requirements and business objectives.
       

Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd. (An American MNC driving advanced wireless and networking technologies)

  • Engineer - Advanced Routers
    • Collaborated within a 30-member Advanced Routers team focusing on Snapdragon X55 chipsets to facilitate robust connectivity between routers, clients, and 4G networks.
    • Designed and implemented customer centric features such as Parental Control, Bandwidth Control, and MACsec, in the domain of Ethernet security and traffic control, that are being used by 20+ Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) as part of their flagship features in mobile routers.
    • Led end-to-end design and implementation of crucial features, resolving and closing 100+ customer queries through successful fixes and code patches.
    • Improved memory efficiency in low-memory chipsets by 40% through reducing memory leaks in the Soft Access Point (SoftAP) application service.
    • Co-led the successful launch of the SDx65 chipset for the SoftAP team in India to validate 20+ legacy features and successfully completed kernel upgradation to version 5.4 for the latest chipsets.
    • Directly collaborated with customer engineering teams to gather requirements and deliver agile, ad-hoc features tailored to evolving customer needs, ensuring high customer satisfaction.
    • Partnered closely with platform engineering, integration and quality assurance teams to deliver robust product features through rigorous checks and stress-tests.
    • Independently managed feature ownership requiring understanding of chipset architecture and hardware-software integration, including resolving critical issues in flagship products like Voice over IP Call crashes.
    • Contributed to a key initiative to streamline new hire onboarding, developing comprehensive knowledge trainings that reduced the remote training period during the pandemic from 2 months to 1 month.
Accomplishments
  • Recognized in the Top 25 out of 200+ teams in PM Dissect Competition conducted by IIM Ahmedabad, 2025.
  • Granted company stocks and bonuses at NetApp as reward for cumulative performance during 2023-2024.
  • Received patent approval for a wearable device and the method of operating the device to perform multiple functions seamlessly as part of the project “Wear N Go” in 2023.
  • Received Orion Insta Award in 2021 for outstanding contributions and efforts at Qualcomm.
  • Granted company stocks and bonuses at Qualcomm as reward for performance during 2020-2021.
  • Promoted to Engineer position from Associate Engineer at Qualcomm, in 2021.
Education
  • B.Tech (Electronics and Communications Engineering), Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, Delhi
Certification
Extra-curricular
  • PGPX Placement Committee Vertical Head for Technology (July 2025 onwards)
  • Elected PGPX Secretary to IT, Infrastructure & Dorm Affairs Committee (April 2025 – June 2025).
  • Volunteering at Teach for India, teaching 40 students of class IV at Nigam Pratibha Vidyalaya, Delhi, since Jul’24.
  • Completed German Levels A1 and A2 during 2021-2022.
  • Served as member of the Theatre Club, Weave Design Club at IIIT-Delhi, 2018-2019.