Andrew Afonso
Staff Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Hubbardston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Afonso is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in VM platform engineering and network/security automation, currently shaping PA-VM support across major cloud and hypervisor environments at Palo Alto Networks. Holding a BS and MS in Computing Security from RIT, he blends deep hands-on QA automation, systems integration, and hardware support to ensure robust PanOS feature testing on AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, ESXi, Hyper-V, KVM and more. His background spans incident response and customer-facing security deployments (CyberArk, Meraki) as well as teaching penetration testing and network forensics, giving him a practical perspective on both offensive and defensive tooling. Known for building reporting pipelines and LAMP/Grafana integrations early in his career, he favors automation-first solutions to replace manual workflows. Based in Massachusetts, he quietly bridges academic rigor with production-scale engineering, often surfacing cross-team improvements that increase platform test coverage and reliability.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BS & MS, Computing Security, BS & MS, Computing Security at Rochester Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, Information Technology, High School Diploma, Information Technology at Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical High School
Github Skills (10)
windows6
macos6
javascript6
linux6
editor5
electron5
text-editor4
extraction3
backup2
icloud1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
andrewbluepiano/RasPi3-NoInternetAP
Apr 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
twardokus/csec380-project
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Final project for CSEC 380
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 148 pushes in 2 months
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