Reshma Giliyal
Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolReshma Giliyal is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Jose with 10 years of experience building test frameworks, automation tooling, and cloud-native features across networking and telecom domains. Currently at Palo Alto Networks, she designed a Python E2E activation test framework, leads UI automation in TestCafe, and mentors new engineers while coordinating multi-team production releases. Her background spans automation development at Aeris—where she built cloud functions, Dockerized services, Java listeners, and a Django results dashboard—and early work at Cisco contributing bandwidth and network-profile features to the open-source Contiv project. Reshma blends deep QA instincts with hands-on software development, frequently moving between JavaScript, Java, Python, and infrastructure tooling to turn flaky systems into reliable pipelines. She holds a Master’s in Computer Engineering from San José State University and brings a proven track record of shipping automation that accelerates product stability and delivery.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at San José State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Telecommunications Engineering at B. M. S. College of Engineering10th 86.5%, 10th 86.5% at jawahar Navodaya VidyalayaP.U.C 83.5%, P.U.C 83.5% at Vivekananda PU college
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Github Skills (12)
api-rest10
rest-api10
go10
api-design10
restful-api10
networking9
container9
network9
model-view-controller8
dockers7
kubernetes7
docker7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
contiv/netplugin
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Container networking for various use cases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 14 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Reshma primarily contributed to the development of the Contiv network plugin, focusing on the addition and management of network profiles. Their work included adding new data structures for Netprofile objects, implementing REST API endpoints for managing Netprofiles, and integrating Netprofile functionalities with Endpoint Groups. They also introduced features for bandwidth and burst control, enhancing network traffic shaping capabilities within the Contiv model. Further contributions include adding list commands for servicelb and other Contiv models.
casesuse-casescontainer-networkingnetwork-automationnetworking
reshmagiliyal/netplugin
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:45 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
casesuse-casescontainer-networkingnetworkingdocker
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