Girish Padia

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About

I am Girish Padia, working in Computer Centre, PRL since November, 2006. Some of my interests in work areas are; Linux Server Administration, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Database Administration, Website security, Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing (VAPT), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Shell scripting, Web Programming, etc.

Scientist/Engineer-SD

  • Joining Year: 2006
  • Website: https://www.prl.res.in/~padia/
  • Phone: +91 79 26314036, 9409057307
  • City: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

My prime responsibilites at PRL includes; PRL - Website Security, Vulnerability Analysis and Penetration Testing of DOS/ISRO websites and Web applications, Management of Application Virtualization, Administering various servers [like; webserver, CoINS, CoWAA, intranet, relay email server, Sandesh, nextcloud], Recruitment Application, Software Development for PRL needs, Utilizing various services of AWS, Database administration and backup/restore of Sybase (CoWAA) and MySQL databases,Providing various MIS data to PRL Administration/Accounts/Chair PPEG, etc.

Key Skills

I have started my career in Computer Application field in year 2000 after completion of post graduation. I started to work from MS-DOS operating system and have seen various technologies till today. I have vast experience of handling various tasks and different software. I am narrating few skills here but it is NOT limited to this list only.

Operating Systems: RHEL/CentOS, Debian, Arch Linux, Kali Linux and Microsoft OSes 80%
Programming Languages & Libraries: PHP, Python, Shell Script, NodeJS, etc. 95%
Software & Tools: Sybase, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite, MongoDB, Git, Vim, Apache, iptables, Kernel-based Virtual Machine, Nmap, sqlmap etc. 75%
Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, JS, Drupal, Bootstrap, markdown, Mod Security, Reverse Proxy, haproxy, etc. 95%

Education Qualification & Career History

Education Qualification

Master of Technology (IT)

2013

Karnataka State Open University

Master of Computer Science (CS)

2011

Sikkim Manipal University

Post Graduate Diploma in Advance Computer Application

1999

Saurashtra University

Bachelor of Science (Computer Applications)

1998

Saurashtra University

Career in PRL

Scientist/Engineer-SD

Jan-2020 - Present

Scientist/Engineer-SC

2016 - 2019

Sr. Scientific Assistant

2011 - 2015

Technical Assistant

2006 - 2010

Computational Projects

I have been invloved in many computational project since my joining of PRL. The projects ranges from software development, web applications, mobile applications, shell scripting, database relted challanges, etc.

  • All
  • Web Server
  • Virtualization
  • Security
  • AWS
  • Software

Seminar/Workshop/Outreach activities

Information about various Seminar/Workshop/Outreach activities

Outreach Activity

Built and demonstrated Raspberry PI based beowulf HPC cluster at the Science Fair, IIT Gandhinagar and at PRL during NSD-2018.

Seminar

Participated in Hindi Orientation Program at PRL on 29/01/2016.

Seminar

Participated in Hindi Technical Seminar at PRL on 29/04/2016.

Workshop

Attended workshop of Web Security Testing held at ISRO-HQ

Presentation

Gave presentation at ISRO-HQ on my script ”mail-to-matrix” which can send email details on matrix client and helps you to get important server alerts on mobile device.

Workshop

Participated in HPC workshop during 13-14/10/2016.

Workshop

Attended HPC LSF workshop 29th January 2019.

Workshop

One-day workshop on “Switching the gears of the mindset” held at ISRO-HQ.

Training

Two days training on “Cyber Security for Digital India” organized by ESCI – Hyderabad.

Committee Member

  1. Member of Computer Committee, PRL.
  2. Member of COINS T & E Committee-II constituted by ISRO HQ.
  3. Member of IT and ITeS Program - Task team for Applications on Cloud constituted by ISRO HQ.
  4. Member of 7CPC implementation committee at PRL.
  5. Member of National Science Day -2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 committee.
  6. Member of Tender Evaluations Committee of Biometric Access Control System.
  7. Member of of inter-centre Hindi Technical Seminar -2017.
  8. Member of Hindi Pakhawada Committee - 2018.
  9. Member of Hindi Technical Seminar 2019.
  10. External expert for the Smart India Hackathon organized by GOI and hosted by Space Application Centre and GTU at Ahmedabad.
  11. Member of team to implement Online Payment in PRL’s various recruitment.
  12. Member of Software Quality Assurance committee for PRL’s payloads XPS and AXPS of Chadrayan-2.
  13. Member of implication of Content Security Policy (CSP) header implementation of DOS/ISRO website.
  14. Member of Website Improvisation Committee.
  15. Conveyer of Technical Evaluation Committee for the procurement of Application Virtualization Solution at PRL.
  16. Member of Cyber Security Mock Drill of ISRO
  17. Member of IIIP committee of ISRO.
  18. Member of Skill Test and evaluation of Permanent post of Assistant of ISRO/SAC.
  19. Member of Recruitment of Computer Operator Trainee.
  20. Member of Recruitment of Office Trainee.
  21. Member of JRF 2020 Online Interview Committee
  22. Member of ISRO Cyberspace Competitions (ICC-2020) for online quiz software
  23. Member of Hindi Pakhawada Committee - 2020
  24. Member of National Cyber Security Awareness Month Task Team (ISRO)
  25. Member of Security Testing of Instant Messaging Platform
  26. Member of Technical Committee, Webinar on “Dr. Vikram Sarabhai and PRL)
  27. Member of National Science Day 2021 celebration at PRL (Complete online mode)
  28. Member of Inter-Centre Committee for sharing software best practices (ISRO)
  29. Member of Inter-Centre Cyber Security Audit Team (DoS/ISRO)
  30. 2023
    1. Member of ViKAS scholarship 2022, 2023
    2. Member of Conference Management Committee FGRC 2023
    3. Member of T & E of Data processing software for Chandrayaan-3
    4. Convener Cybser Security Mock Drill Level - 7 (CSMD L-7)
    5. Member of the Inter Centre Committee for Digitalization and Online Workflow of CHSS Process (DoS/ISRO)
    6. Chairman of Constitution of Committee to study technical feasibility to conduct NSD and VIKAS Scholarship screening test in online mode
    7. Recruitment as per Advertisement No: 01/2023 (0123)
    8. OMR based result evaluation of JRF-2023 batch