Talha Tariq

Current

Software Design Engineer at Microsoft

Past

Technical Consultant at Sun Microsystems
Technical Consultant at NCR Corporation

Education

Royal Holloway, U. of London
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

Connections

156 connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

Talha Tariq’s Summary

• 3 years of experience in a customer-facing position in enterprise software development & technical consulting role.
• Experience in infrastructure planning, software architecture & design of distributed system environments including security recommendations, failover techniques, disastor recovery, system integration and application partitioning.
•Domain knowledge of financial industry and private commercial banking. Worked on numerous projects involving development, integration and implementation of electronic banking and transaction based systems across 6 countries in EMEA.
• Domain Knowledge of Telecom & Smart Card Industry (GSM/ UMTS Architecture, SIM lifecycle, JavaCard programming, NFC and RFID Standards and applications)

Talha Tariq’s Specialties:

• Excellent knowledge of Security Services, Cryptography, OS Internals, penetration testing, malware research, reverse engineering, software and security testing

Talha Tariq’s Experience

Software Design Engineer

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Security Research and Software Development in eXtreme Computing Group (XCG) at Microsoft Research. Working in High Assurance Trusted Computing, Virtualization and Cloud Computing Futures.
Technical Consultant

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)

November 2007 — May 2008 (7 months)

Developed a number of applications on JavaCard, SunSPOTs and Solaris Virtualization.
Technical Consultant

NCR Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NCR; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 4 months)

• Development and Implementation of monitoring, security, fraud detection & transaction based systems for e-banking, financial, and payment industries with pre-sale analysis & post-sale implementations for key accounts and projects.

Talha Tariq’s Education

Royal Holloway, U. of London

MS , Information Security , 2007 — 2008

Graduated with Distinction

Activities and Societies:

Campus Ambassador for Sun Micrososystems leading the open source developer community on campus.
Member of the London Open Solaris Users Group (LOSUG)
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

BS (CS) , Software Engineering, Network Security , 2001 — 2005

Activities and Societies:

FAST Networks and Linux Security Group, Design Incharge of ONLINE , IEEE, Procom , Open Source R&D