About: Vamsavardhana Reddy Chillakuru is an Advisory Software Engineer working with IBM India Private Limited since 1996 and has over 11 years experience in the IT industry. He is a committer and member of the Apache Geronimo PMC. He received his B.Stat.(Hons.) and M.Stat. degrees from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India in the years 1994 and 1996 respectively. His interests include application security in general and cryptographic security in particular. He is responsible for adding a Certification Authority portlet to Geronimo Administrative Console. His prior experiences include development of a Certification Authority using toolkits from RSA Security Inc., and developing SSL support in DB2 Java Common Client driver.