Kartik Pande
Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKartik Pande is a Principal Software Engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building secure, scalable systems across cybersecurity, cloud, and access management. He progressed through technical and customer-facing roles at Palo Alto Networks—moving from solutions engineering into senior staff and principal engineering—demonstrating both hands-on delivery and strategic product influence. At PwC he designed globally distributed access management for millions of users and built CARTA-inspired automation, showing a strong blend of security architecture and practical engineering. Kartik contributes to open-source security tooling such as Checkov, authoring infrastructure-as-code checks for AWS RDS and improving test coverage, which underscores his focus on preventing cloud misconfigurations early. He pairs a formal MS in Information Systems with a background in test automation and front-end tooling, giving him a rare cross-domain fluency from QA to principal-level architecture. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who turns complex compliance and cloud risks into automated, testable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Systems, Master of Science - MS Information Systems at University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of BusinessBachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Github Skills (8)
infrastructure-as-code10
terraformer10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
devops10
terraform10
testing10
python9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bridgecrewio/checkov
May 2021 - Nov 2022
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:87 reviews, 228 commits, 63 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Kartik primarily contributed to the Checkov project by implementing and refining infrastructure-as-code checks, specifically focusing on AWS RDS instance configurations within CloudFormation and Terraform. Their work involved creating new checks, writing tests for those checks, refactoring existing tests, and fixing issues related to these checks. They also updated existing checks and refactored the code. Their work also included related test updates and general code cleanup.
gcppolicy-as-codecomplianceaws-securityaws
kartikp10/dotfiles
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
dotfiles on macos
Contributions:2 PRs, 44 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
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