A Karthick
Sr Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolA Karthick is a Sr. Principal Software Engineer based in Fremont with 16 years of systems and networking software experience, now at Palo Alto Networks. He brings deep expertise in C, Go, Python, Linux kernel and low-level systems—having led several open-source projects including a 32-bit multitasking kernel, a simple threading library, a contiguous allocator and a flat-file DB. His product work spans embedded and high-performance networking—DPDK, kernel drivers, U-Boot and declarative network provisioning via Kubernetes custom controllers and schedulers for latency-sensitive workloads. Early career roles at Veritas, OpenClovis and multiple Norway firms honed his troubleshooting and systems design skills, while conference talks on Linux memory management show consistent community engagement. Notably, he combines vintage OS-level craftsmanship with modern cloud-native networking patterns, making him adept at bridging kernel internals and distributed runtime concerns.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BE, MINING, BE, MINING at Anna University Chennai
Github Skills (21)
code-generator10
middleware10
failover10
code-generation10
hashtable10
logging10
networking4
subproject2
kubernetes2
operating-system2
cloud-native2
service-mesh1
triple1
command-line-interface1
kubebuilder1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
karthick18/threads
May 2010 - Apr 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
karthick18/misc
Jun 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 years 8 months
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