Revathi Sabanayagam
Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRevathi Sabanayagam is a Principal Software Engineer in San Jose with nine years of hands-on experience building high-performance edge and security systems for CDNs and enterprise networks. She has deep expertise in API gateways, distributed systems, and Layer 7 security, and has architected custom Go-based web servers and eBPF-driven tunneling solutions that remove operational bottlenecks and enable hitless, high-throughput production traffic. At Palo Alto Networks and Edgio she delivered CDN-like edge capabilities, scalable WAF/DDOS/BOT defenses, and a patented stateless browser challenge, improving attack blocking and rate-limiting accuracy in large-scale deployments. Comfortable across C/C++, Go, Python and systems-level Linux tooling, she combines low-level protocol work (TLS, connection pooling) with REST-driven control planes for dynamic, observable infrastructure. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic architect who prefers elegant, production-tested primitives over brittle complexity, and who routinely mentors junior engineers while driving cross-team migrations and refactors.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
St.Anne's Higher Secondary SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Anna University Chennai
Github Skills (14)
modsecurity10
waf10
load-testing7
stress-testing7
h27
http6
http-server6
curl5
parallel5
restful-api3
resty2
rest2
rest-api2
server2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
RevathiSaba/iptree-test
Jul 2019 - Jun 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
Edgio/waflz
May 2019 - Feb 2023
multitenant ModSecurity compatible WAF engine from Edgio
Contributions:46 reviews, 105 PRs, 281 pushes in 3 years 9 months
wafmodsecuritymultitenant
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