Researcher at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- Research Intern at Microsoft
- Past
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- Campus Ambassador at Sun Microsystems
- Professional Services Consultant at NCR Corporation
- Education
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- Royal Holloway, U. of London
- National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
- Connections
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- 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, recovery/rollback, system integration and application partitioning.
• Domain Knowledge of Telecom & Smart Card Industry (GSM/ UMTS Architecture, SIM lifecycle, JavaCard programming, NFC and RFID Standards and applications)
• Domain knowledge of Banking and Financial Industry (Branch Banking, Consumer products, Operations, Alternate Distribution Channels, Deposits, Settlements), Payments (Cheque clearing and Electronic eXchange), Retail and Airline Industries (Billing, Ticketing, PNR generation, Sabre).
• Excellent development, integration & implementation knowledge with professional trainings and certifications on EMV, CEN-XFS (Extensions for Financial Services), NDC standard for ATMs, ISO-8583 standard for financial transaction middleware’s, UPOS standards for Point of Sale machines.
Talha Tariq’s Specialties:
• Excellent knowledge of Security Services, Cryptography, penetration testing, malware research and reverse engineering, software and security testing, phishing and attack methods.
• Excellent programming and web development skills in major languages, databases and platforms. Very good sense and skill of graphic designing. Sample portfolio can be seen at http://tt83x.deviantart.com/gallery
Talha Tariq’s Experience
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Research Intern
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
May 2008 — Present (3 months)
Graduate Research Intern in Security and Cryptography group working in Manycore computing.
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Campus Ambassador
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — May 2008 (6 months)
Leading the open source developer community on campus promoting the use of open source software.
Promoting Sun’s open source platforms and development tools to professors and researchers.
Developed a number of applications on JavaCard, SunSPOTs and Solaris Virtualization for internal presentations.
Working with Sun Microsystems UK on training of cutting edge new technologies on Java and Solaris platforms. -
Professional Services 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 of monitoring, security, fraud detection & transaction based systems for e-banking, financial, payment and retail industries.
• Architecture design, threat modeling and security code reviews of products.
Talha Tariq’s Education
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Royal Holloway, U. of London
MS, Information Security, 2007 — 2008
- 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)
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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
Additional Information
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Talha Tariq’s Groups:
IEEE,
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Banking Connects member
Talha Tariq’s Contact Settings
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