Vallabh Patade
Senior Staff Software Engineer In Test at Palo Alto Networks
California, United States
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Top SchoolVallabh Patade is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Test with 12 years of experience building and leading QA and automation efforts across networking and security products. Currently at Palo Alto Networks after steering Gigamon’s Fabric Manager VMware cloud Functional QA team, he has a track record of cutting manual testing by 70% through automation and pragmatic testing strategies. He brings deep hands-on expertise in API, UI, and network testing using tools like Robot Framework, Cypress, Python, Terraform, VMware/NSX-T, and traffic tools such as iperf and Spirent. Previously at Fortinet and Apple he created page-object automation frameworks and saved weeks of manual effort by automating configuration migration and web testing. Comfortable as both a technical lead and Scrum Master, he pairs cross-team knowledge sharing with documentation improvements to make complex networking products easier to test and use. Based in California with an MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, he combines protocol-level networking insight with scalable test automation practices.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at San José State UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE Electronics and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronics and Telecommunications at K. J. Somaiya Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (6)
discrete-event-simulation8
dynamics8
modeling-tool8
modeling7
simulation7
system-dynamics7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
vpatade/ReactColorToolApp
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Dragoon-Lab/LaitsV3
Aug 2014 - Dec 2014
Dragoon: a tutor for system dynamics modeling
Contributions:40 commits in 3 months
tutorsimulationdiscrete-event-simulationdynamicsmodeling
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