Purushottam Kulkarni

Purushottam “Puru” Kulkarni is a Staff Engineer with the Cybersecurity Research & Development group at Juniper Networks, Inc. Puru has worked extensively in development and implementation of custom cryptographic modules, randomizers, algorithms, and protocols. Puru holds a Master’s degree in Security Informatics (2018) from the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute. Puru also holds a patent in Cryptographic Random Data Generation, and has lead Juniper Networks’ efforts to achieve FIPS 140 certifications for their Linux cryptographic module.