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K. Narasimha Reddy

Bangalore

Summary

Having 18+ years of experience in development of network infra for Palo alto Firewalls, Cisco routers, switches and wireless controllers, also involved in development of 2.5G and 4G of 3GPP protocols (PDN Gateway), and networking protocol stacks in telecom, networking, Expertise in efficacy and delivering customer adaptability features

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Engineer

Palo Alto Networks
07.2022 - Current

Title : Infra(High-Availability) for Next-Gen Firewalls
Role : Technical lead
Description: Enhancing pan-os infra to support RHEL-9 kernel features like Cgroups V2 and High-availability, Process restartability and software manager for next gen firewalls and panorama which manages firewalls.
Supporting high-availability in various modes like active-active and active-passive modes to provide configuration and session synchronization.

Title : Panorama - firewall management
Role : Technical lead and Team management
Description: Implemented customer usability features, CFD backlog reduction
Most firewall breaches are caused by firewall misconfigurations. Panorama monitors, configures and automates security management
Panorama reduces network complexity with logical, functional device groups and simplifies network management with global policy control and visibility. In addition, it minimizes dwell
ime for threats on your network with actionable data, highlighting critical information for response prioritization.

Keep firewall rules consistent across your network

Gain visibility into traffic and actionable insights

Identify infected hosts and spot malicious behavior

Optimize firewall configuration and reduce errors

Scale security management as your organization grows

Parallel Wireless Networks
01.2022 - 07.2022

CISCO Systems India Private Limited
07.2010 - 01.2022

Samsung India Software Operations (SISO)
01.2008 - 01.2010

DGB Micro System
01.2006 - 01.2008

Education

B.E - Electronics and Communication

Madras University
01.2001

Intermediate -

Board of Intermediate Education

SSC -

Board of Secondary Education

Skills

  • C
  • C
  • LLVM
  • Clang compiler
  • Linux Internals
  • Network sub system
  • LTE
  • Python
  • GSM
  • UMA
  • GPRS
  • EDGE
  • 3GPP Standards
  • TCP
  • IPv4
  • IPv6
  • UDP
  • ICMP
  • IPv6 FHS features
  • Debug and Analyzer tools
  • GDB
  • UDB
  • PDB
  • Hitachi workspace
  • JTAG
  • Wireshark packet analyzer

Areas Of Interest

To work on Linux internals and system infra for next gen technologies

Timeline

Principal Engineer

Palo Alto Networks
07.2022 - Current

Parallel Wireless Networks
01.2022 - 07.2022

CISCO Systems India Private Limited
07.2010 - 01.2022

Samsung India Software Operations (SISO)
01.2008 - 01.2010

DGB Micro System
01.2006 - 01.2008

B.E - Electronics and Communication

Madras University

Intermediate -

Board of Intermediate Education

SSC -

Board of Secondary Education
K. Narasimha Reddy