Sanju Kumar
Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolSanju Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer based in Washington, DC, with a multi-decade foundation in telecommunications and over a decade leading testing, SRE and DevOps initiatives for security and networking products. He has recently focused on product quality, test frameworks and developer productivity at Google and now Palo Alto Networks, bringing hands-on expertise in CI/CD, cloud-native tooling (K8s, Docker, GCP), and test automation across PyTest, Selenium and Playwright. Sanju has led cross-functional teams through incident management, release orchestration and performance testing for complex distributed systems, and has driven integration of testing into pipelines to accelerate safe releases. His background in core telecom node testing and OSS/BSS platforms gives him rare depth in protocol conformance and carrier-grade reliability alongside modern cloud practices. Notably, he pairs strategic engineering leadership with day-to-day technical contributions—designing test frameworks, automating monitoring and resolving escalations—to close the loop between development, QA and production. He holds advanced training in data science from the University of Colorado Boulder, underscoring an analytical approach to quality and observability.
6 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BTech Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, BTech Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Motivational PathwayMaster of Science - MS Data Science (AL & M/L), Master of Science - MS Data Science (AL & M/L) at University of Colorado Boulder
Hindi, English
Github Skills (6)
bash-completion9
bash9
shell9
bash-configuration8
trading2
finance2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
itsmesanju/pythonSkills
Feb 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:250 pushes in 3 years 1 month
itsmesanju/MSDS
Jun 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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