Sumeet Ekbote is a software engineer based in Melbourne with six years of professional experience building production systems across startups and established tech companies. He has progressed from research-driven engineering roles and a co-founder stint at Dapr Labs to senior engineering positions at Chronosphere and currently Palo Alto Networks, bringing strong hands-on experience in distributed systems and observability. His background includes improving test frameworks and delivery engines at Microsoft and automating scientific instrumentation early in his career, reflecting a blend of practical tooling and systems thinking. Comfortable moving between product-focused teams and infrastructure work, he has repeatedly taken ownership of reliability and developer productivity improvements. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with experience shipping scalable backend services. An uncommon thread through his career is early work automating microscope operations and POI validation, showing a taste for translating domain-specific problems into robust software.
5 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Victorian Certificate of Education Highschool, Victorian Certificate of Education Highschool at Beaconhills College
:mailbox: SMTP Server + Web Interface for viewing and testing emails during development.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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Sumeet Ekbote - Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks