Ambarish Malpani

Current

• Chief Grunt at Ghumroo, Inc.

Past

• Commi Volunteer at Do Gooding
• Chief Janitorial Officer at Cenzic, Inc
• Guy Who Knew Stuff About PKI at ValiCert, Inc

• Big Dog at Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
• Supreme Grunt at Valid Logic Systems, Inc

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Education

• U.C.S.B
• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

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Industry

Computer & Network Security

Ambarish Malpani’s Summary

Experience: Releasing products in startups, managing teams, evangalizing, public speaking

Goals: Learn, Do good, Have fun :-)

Ambarish Malpani’s Specialties:

Managing groups, developing teams/people, releasing products, product design, developing products from scratch, programming (mainly in conservative C++)

Ambarish Malpani’s Experience

• Chief Grunt

  Ghumroo, Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  Fund raising, Learning, Crawling, Parsing, Writing HTML

• Commi Volunteer

  Do Gooding

  (Philanthropy industry)

  January 2007 — November 2007 (11 months)

  Teaching (at 2 shelters and 1 school) - some history, some geography, some maths, some powerpoint, some presentation skills
  
  Learning about organic farming, rural India

• Chief Janitorial Officer

  Cenzic, Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; WISH; Computer Software industry)

  October 2003 — December 2006 (3 years 3 months)

  Do stuff. Have meetings. Deal with problems
  
  Hired whole engineering team. Developed the Hailstorm product from scratch. Managed all of engineering, QA, IT, Docs.
  
  Evangalized product

• Guy Who Knew Stuff About PKI

  ValiCert, Inc

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; VLCT; Computer Software industry)

  February 1996 — October 2002 (6 years 9 months)

  Do some work. Talk with folks. Build morale. Do more work. Observe stuff. Talk with more folks. etc.
  
  Ported Apache to Win32
  Tore my hair out and came to love SSLeay (now OpenSSL)
  Learnt more about ASN.1 than I ever want to know....
  Developed the OCSP protocol in the IETF PKIX Working group
  Spoke at Conferences
  Travelled the world :-)

• Big Dog

  Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CDN; Computer Software industry)

  October 1988 — February 1995 (6 years 5 months)

  Worked on Cadence's strategy in the PC world - including moving some of its applications to Windows NT (yes, it was called that once.....)
  
  Managed Cadence's Emacs based Syntax Driven Editor

• Supreme Grunt

  Valid Logic Systems, Inc

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; VLID; Computer Software industry)

  November 1988 — February 1992 (3 years 4 months)

  Developed SystemPLD/SystemPGA - our solution in the PLD/FPGA design space. Developed product from scratch. Got product to healthy sales numbers (forget what they were now - at least a few mil per year)
  
  Major contribution to Concept - our schematic capture program and Valid's flagship product
  
  Worked on network licensing of our products

Ambarish Malpani’s Education

• U.C.S.B

  M.S. , Computer Science , 1987 — 1988

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  B. Tech , Computer Science , 1983 — 1987

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