Summary
Roy Antonyraj is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years building secure, high-performance distributed systems and infrastructure, currently directing engineering for Prisma Access at Palo Alto Networks. As Co-founder and CTO of Zycada he architected edge network solutions that delivered 10x latency improvements and built multi-data-center replication, high-speed key-value stores, and MFA systems for high-assurance sectors. He combines deep hands-on expertise in security systems engineering, cloud and edge networking, and performance-driven architecture with a preference for elegant, simple solutions that scale. Known for mentoring high-impact teams, Roy turns complex reliability and security constraints into operational advantages and has a track record of shipping production-grade tooling such as a C/C++ vulnerability scanner. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends startup founder grit with enterprise-grade engineering discipline informed by an M.Tech from IIT Madras.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
B.Tech. Electronics, B.Tech. Electronics at Madras Institute of Technology
java, python, c, c++, ruby, perl, lisp, go, javascript