Sanika Gawhane
Staff Product Security Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolSanika Gawhane is a Staff Product Security Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and automation frameworks across VMware and Palo Alto Networks. She specializes in software automation and integration, having led a multi-cloud, multi-OS container and image-building framework that automated build-scan-sign-store pipelines using Python, Go, and Jenkins. Comfortable across Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/Azure, and container registries, she bridges platform engineering and secure release engineering to deliver production-compliant artifacts. Her background includes low-level firmware work and MATLAB research, giving her a rare blend of systems-level troubleshooting and high-level platform automation. Based in Palo Alto, she pairs an MS in Computer Engineering from UW–Madison with hands-on open-source collaboration in image-building and Kubernetes tooling.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (27)
kubernetes10
velero10
terraform10
gcp10
kubernetes-deployment10
infrastructure10
k8s10
vcenter10
testing9
vsphere9
kubernetes-cluster9
api9
packer-plugin8
cluster-api8
bosh8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SanikaGawhane/image-builder
Jun 2020 - Sep 2023
Cross provider Kubernetes image building utility.
Contributions:181 pushes, 33 branches in 3 years 3 months
providerbuilderkuberneteskubeletkubernetes-provider
SanikaGawhane/k8s.io
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023
Kubernetes files for various *.k8s.io sites
Contributions:8 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years
k3dsitesk8skuberneteskubernetes-files
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