Shresta Seetharam
Staff Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShresta Seetharam is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building L2/L3 platform software and cloud-delivered security services from San Francisco. Currently at Palo Alto Networks, she focuses on machine-learning-driven URL classification for threat detection, blending applied ML with systems engineering. Her background includes platform and network infrastructure roles at Sonus and Cisco, and research on Statistical Relational Learning (Hinge-Loss MRFs) during a Computer Science MS at UC Santa Cruz. Fluent in C, C++, and Python with Java open-source contributions, she’s comfortable taking research ideas into production-grade virtualized and appliance-based solutions. Colleagues rely on her for bridging rigorous academic methods and practical security engineering at scale.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Santa Cruz - Jack Baskin School of Engineering
English, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (10)
psl10
php7
markdown3
machine-learning2
macos2
network1
monitoring1
network-analysis1
network-flow1
security1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shrestabs/ucsc-incominggrad
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:59 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
shrestabs/settings
May 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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