Summary
Santosh Madugundi is a Principal Engineer based in Pleasanton, CA with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and platform services across networking and security domains. He has progressed through roles at Palo Alto Networks, Cohesity, VMware and Cisco, bringing hands-on expertise in DevOps automation, CI/CD, and large-scale distributed systems. Early work on malware analysis engines, ELK/Splunk integrations and VM orchestration shows a strong grounding in security telemetry and observability. Santosh combines systems-level programming (Java, Python) with configuration management and cloud automation (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Docker) to reliably ship platform features. Colleagues value him for bridging deep engineering with operational pragmatism and for tackling hard integration problems across hybrid cloud environments. He’s quietly comfortable moving between low-level tooling and higher-level architecture, which makes him effective at turning research prototypes into production services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Software Engineering at San José State University
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Jb Institute Of Engineering and Technology
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English, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi