Saikiran Madugula is a Software Engineer at SonicWall, where he has contributed to network security engineering for over 16 years. Prior to SonicWall, he developed Linux kernel features for bandwidth shaping, firewalling, and load-balancing at DBAM Systems, and worked on packet capture and flow management software at Netronome Systems. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky, where his thesis research focused on self-healing geographic routing protocols in mobile ad-hoc networks.