Abhijit Herekar
Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhijit Herekar is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience building secure, distributed systems at the intersection of AI, networking, and security, currently focused on protecting agentic AI services and applications. He combines deep kernel- and user-space networking expertise—hands-on with SK_BUFFS, custom CNIs, OVS, and SD-WAN routing—with modern ML-driven threat detection, low-latency distilled models, and observability/guardrails for AI apps. His background spans Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Qualcomm Atheros, and research roles, and he codes primarily in Go, C++, Python and Java while operating production systems using Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch. Notably, he brings practical experience converting networking primitives into secure, microservice-friendly architectures and experiments with UEBA and anomaly detection tailored to agentic workflows. Based in California, he pairs academic training in computer networks from USC with a practitioner’s knack for shipping resilient, performant infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science (Computer Systems and Computer Networks), Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science (Computer Systems and Computer Networks) at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelors in Engineering Electronics and communication, Bachelors in Engineering Electronics and communication at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversitySt. xaviers high school
Github Skills (122)
prompt-engineering10
vertex-ai10
llama-index10
llmops10
proxies10
elemental10
router10
gateway10
azure-openai10
langchain10
llm10
segmentation10
openai10
anthropic10
service-mesh9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
acuvity/litellm
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Python SDK, Proxy Server (LLM Gateway) to call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI format - [Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, VertexAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Sagemaker, HuggingFace, Replicate, Groq]
Contributions:14 reviews, 4 PRs, 35 pushes in 3 months
abhijitherekar/pod-debug
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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