Hi, I’m
Pruthvi Panyam Nataraj
Bengaluru
Summary
I am a seasoned software professional with over 20 years of experience in designing and developing optimized, scalable software solutions. My expertise spans Network security, OS/Application security, Distributed Systems, Virtualization, and Cloud services. I have consistently focused on innovative problem-solving, which has resulted in the issuance of 20 patents to date. I now aspire to transition into Cybersecurity Engineering, building on my background in security-focused software development. I aim to help develop solutions that protect critical business applications, defend against modern threats, and drive innovation by harnessing the power of AI.
Overview
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Consulting MTS
11.2025 - Current
Job overview
- AI-Native Network Emulation Platform (OCI)
- Architecting a high-fidelity platform to emulate complex OCI network topologies, aiming to eliminate production risks and manual bottlenecks during large-scale configuration changes.
- Championing an AI-first development workflow by leveraging OpenAI Codex within a Spec-Driven Development (SDD) framework; ensuring high consistency between specifications and auto-generated code while significantly reducing rework.
- Developing an AI/ML-based recommendation engine to automate emulation and validation workflows, while integrating a natural language summarizer to generate standardized pre-deployment reports.
Cisco
Senior Software Technical Lead
10.2020 - 11.2025
Job overview
- Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) design and development on Firewall device
- Client-less and client-based ZTNA enforcements on Firewall
- Designing complete solution including authentication, authorization policies, posture and identity integration
- Threat defense and health monitoring features
- Skills: Zero trust network access (ZTNA), Network Firewall, Intrusion Prevention Systems, Threat defense, C/C++ programming
- Outcome: A comprehensive Zero-Trust solution on Firewall appliance
HPE-Aruba Networks
Master Software Engineer
04.2017 - 09.2020
Job overview
- Developing private cloud platform for deploying the NMS services
- Building the cloud platform using Linux, Docker, Kubernetes and other cloud and distributed systems technologies
- Developing health monitoring, notification and recovery infrastructure for monitoring the deployments
- Skills: Private Cloud platform development using Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Python and other Distributed Systems technologies
- Outcome: An On-Premise platform, which is on par with Aruba cloud solution
Juniper Networks
Staff Software Engineer
09.2014 - 03.2017
Job overview
- Virtualizing the Control Plane of Juniper's MX routing platform using Open source software
- My role was to create an end-to-end orchestrator to create and manage the Virtual machines and assign the network resources.
- Hypervisor was RedHat Linux and the open source software KVM, Libvirt, Qemu were used to create VMs.
- Skills: Virtualization(VNF), Network management, Linux Virtualization (KVM, Qemu, libvirt), C programming
- Outcome: Virtualized router was successfully deployed for key customer
IBM India
Advisory Software Engineer
09.2003 - 09.2014
Job overview
- Trusted Execution, a native integrity measurement solution for AIX Operating System
- Trusted Network Connect protocol implementation
- Internet Key Exchange protocol version 2 (IKEv2)
- Domain RBAC (Role based access control)
- Skills: Operating Systems security AIX, IP Security, Trusted Computing, Virtual IO server, virtual SCSI, Kernel/Device Drivers, C/C++ Programming
- Outcome: AIX supported best security features natively on OS
Education
Birla Institute of Technology - Pilani
MS from Software Systems
11-2006
Bangalore UniversityBengaluru
BE from Computer Science
12-2001
Skills
Simplifying security software and systems
Application Security, Network Security
Cloud - Docker, Kubernetes and building microservices
Timeline
Consulting MTS
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
11.2025 - Current
Senior Software Technical Lead
Cisco
10.2020 - 11.2025
Master Software Engineer
HPE-Aruba Networks
04.2017 - 09.2020
Staff Software Engineer
Juniper Networks
09.2014 - 03.2017
Advisory Software Engineer
IBM India
09.2003 - 09.2014
Bangalore University
BE from Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology - Pilani
MS from Software Systems