Punakshi Chaand
Senior Software Engineer at Intuit
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolPunakshi Chaand is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building secure, high-performance distributed systems and cloud-native networking controls. Currently at Intuit, she develops Admiral—the global Istio control plane—using Golang, Envoy, Kubernetes and Argo CD, and previously built an eBPF-based CNI for edge devices during an internship at Red Hat. She brings deep Identity and Access Management expertise from multi-data-center Forgerock deployments at HSBC, including OpenBanking/PSD2 journeys, SSO, OAuth2/OIDC, SAML and certificate management supporting millions of users. Academically grounded with a 4.0 MS in Computer Science from the University of Florida and AWS Data Analytics and Deep Learning certifications, she blends systems, security and data skills. Notably, she pairs low-level Linux networking work (eBPF) with cloud orchestration and production rollout/rollback strategies—making her comfortable across kernel, platform and service-control planes.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
12th, Non-Medical, 93.8, 12th, Non-Medical, 93.8 at SGGS Collegiate Public SchoolBachelor's degree, Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, 8.69/10, Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, 8.69/10 at Punjab Engineering College10th, 10 CGPA, 10th, 10 CGPA at Sacred Heart Convent SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at University of Florida
Github Skills (23)
mesh10
kuma10
discovery10
multi-cluster10
k8s10
automation9
service-discovery9
microservices9
istio9
linkerd8
kubernetes8
service-mesh8
proxy7
accelerator7
high-performance7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Punakshi/admiral
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
Punakshi/Deep-Residual-Learning-for-Image-Recognition-Implementation
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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