Sivakumar Gurumurthy
Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSivakumar Gurumurthy is a Principal Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with two decades of hands-on experience building cloud orchestration, SDN, and high-performance management and control planes. He has designed scalable microservices and container orchestration solutions (Docker, LXD, OpenStack, AWS) and driven runtime performance improvements across x86 line-card and multi-core architectures. His background spans foundational work at Juniper on Contrail and PXE-booted line-card management, to platform migration and secure auditing for LinkedIn’s PaaS and current architecture work at Palo Alto Networks. Equally comfortable in low-level C and systems work as well as Python/Ansible-driven automation, he has a track record of containerizing complex build and deployment environments to simplify developer workflows. A frequent mentor of offshore teams and an open-source contributor, he blends practical engineering with cross-team leadership to deliver production-grade infrastructure. Notably, he has repeatedly turned device-level JUNOS integrations and virtualization hacks into repeatable orchestration patterns that scale across cloud and router platforms.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Degree In Mathematics Mathematics, Bachelors Degree In Mathematics Mathematics at University of MadrasMasters in Computer Applications Computer Science, Masters in Computer Applications Computer Science at Madurai Kamraj University
Github Skills (28)
management8
puppet8
python8
ansible8
server8
cobbler7
controller7
juju7
server-manager7
ssh7
ansible-role6
automation6
devops6
netscaler6
napalm6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Juniper/contrail-server-manager
May 2015 - Mar 2018
contrail server management
Contributions:121 commits in 2 years 10 months
server-managementserver
Juniper/contrail-packaging
Feb 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:18 commits in 3 years 2 months
packagingvnc
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