Ramkumar Kandasamy
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRamkumar Kandasamy is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with about 14 years in IT and 11+ years building cloud products, currently driving reliability and performance at Palo Alto Networks. He blends deep test architecture and automation expertise with hands-on engineering of cloud-native stacks using HAProxy, Nginx, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB and container platforms like Docker and Kubernetes. Ramkumar has owned scale and performance for 100+ microservices, built CI-integrated performance pipelines, custom JMeter plugins, and tooling to capture and mock SaaS traffic—deliverables that have measurably improved CI health visibility and test fidelity. His background spans middleware, network emulation (Shunra), and storage security testing for world-leading backup services, giving him a rare cross-cutting view of infrastructure, protocols and user-impact. Comfortable collaborating with developers and product analysts, he pairs pragmatic engineering with test-first thinking to turn complex distributed systems into observable, performant services.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Anna University, ChennaiBachelor of Computer Application, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Application, Computer Science at Madurai Kamaraj University
English, Tamil
Github Skills (9)
graph8
bubble8
java8
android8
kotlin7
mpandroidchart7
panning7
scaling6
charts6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
palaniramkumar/BloodDonor
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
palaniramkumar/ExpenseManager
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:142 commits, 124 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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