Abhiroop Dabral
Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolAbhiroop Dabral is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Mountain View with 14 years of deep expertise in virtualization, hypervisors, and OS internals, particularly on Intel VT-x and AMD SVM. He has led Palo Alto Networks’ Wildfire Hypervisor and Platform teams, evolving core hypervisor capabilities into production-grade security infrastructure. His background spans research-grade binary instrumentation and dynamic linker optimizations to pragmatic engineering—building VMI features for XEN and automation frameworks for large-scale security products. Known for bridging academic systems research with enterprise delivery, he combines low-level CPU/VM expertise with a proven track record of shipping resilient, security-focused platforms.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (22)
dos5
luks5
kernel-module5
maintenance4
kernel4
linux-kernel4
stress-testing3
debugging3
linux2
image2
imagemagick2
windows1
python1
parser1
vnc1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
llubu/Utilities
Sep 2012 - Oct 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes in 5 years 1 month
llubu/tmp
Sep 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:17 commits in 3 years 6 months
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