Ashish is a published author and researcher with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and extensive experience in building secure systems software from the ground-up. He has worked in the industry for over a decade, coupled with nearly a decade of top-tier academic research. Ashish has presented his work at top-tier academic conferences, such as USENIX ATC, ACM SIGMETRICS, NDSS, and CSS. He also frequently speaks at premier industry conferences as well, such as Open Source Summit, PyCon, Linux Plumbers Conference, BlackHAT, NullCon, and PackagingCon.