Chandra Cheruku
Cortex Cloud - Cloud Security Architect - 2 at Palo Alto Networks
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChandra Cheruku is a cloud security architect with nine years of experience designing and operationalizing integrated cloud, network, and security solutions for enterprise customers. Currently at Palo Alto Networks working on Cortex Cloud, he blends software engineering roots with hands-on cloud-native security (Prisma Cloud/CNAPP) to bridge code-to-SOC workflows. He has led cross-functional initiatives from container orchestration and automation to SDN and cloud orchestration across Cisco, Citrix, American Express, and more. Known for first-principles thinking, he repeatedly converts complex distributed systems requirements into practical, auditable deployments that ship on time. Based in San Jose, he pairs technical leadership with an entrepreneurial curiosity for new technologies and platform-level integrations. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architectures that unite security, networking, and orchestration at scale.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Software Engineering Networking Software, Master in Software Engineering Networking Software at San José State UniversityB.Tech Computer Science, B.Tech Computer Science at Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering
English, Telugu
Github Skills (21)
cwp9
compliance8
security8
devops7
devsecops7
security-automation7
docker7
rancher5
reportportal5
kubernetes5
testing4
pytest4
orchestration4
python3
container3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chcheruk/parameters-build-sample
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Parameters pipeline:
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
parameterspipelineworkflow
chcheruk/microservices-demo
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Deployment scripts & config for Sock Shop
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 comments in 1 day
sockdeploymentshopnodejsconfig
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