Utkarsh Kushagra

- Contributing to the Network Security team delivering PAN-OS, the backbone of all hardware, virtual, and containerized next-gen firewalls. Successfully delivered major releases, including 10.2 (Nebula), 11.0 (Nova), 11.1 (Cosmos), and 11.2 (Quasar). - Owner and lead for a low-latency, high-throughput write-ahead logging system for quality framework data and event logs, ensuring data integrity and security through a robust automated backup mechanism. - Led the MTTR initiative for the NGFW portfolio, collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize code delivery times and improve operational efficiency. - Assisted in designing heat-seeking regression systems that left-shift quality by leveraging code coverage and change-based analysis. - Developed streamlined data pipelines and smoke tests, integrating and organizing workflows across disparate and unstructured data sources. - Made significant design contributions towards the adoption of new tools like Sourcegraph Cody for co-pilot and gcov for code coverage

- Employee #6 in the newly established NGFW charter in India, contributing to the development of ML-powered Next-Generation Firewall solutions, including PA-Hardware, PA-VM (Virtual Firewall), PA-CN (Container Firewall), Panorama, and more. - Played a key role in scaling the Engineering and R&D Network Security team from its inception to over 200 members in India Development Centre -Led Project PASTA (Predictive Analysis for Selective Test Automation), which won first prize among 250+ ideas at the NetSec ’21 Hackathon.

- Developed COVID Monitoring System for JSS Hospital using FARM stack and microservice architecture. - Designed a regex based text parser in Python to analyze Medical documents with AWS-Comprehend integration and NLP correction. - Integrated in-house conversation engine to WhatsApp using Twilio and custom REST APIs. - Designed and deployed MySQL database along with CRUD interface for Hospital Information Management System (HIS). - Designed and deployed MongoDB to aggregate real time user generated data captured through conversational AI chatbots - Participated as Technical Lead in UAT with seed clients.

- Design a Web Scraper in Python to gather medical metadata on medicines, conditions etc. - Developed CI/CD pipelines using Docker deployments and Jenkins integrations. - Developed tools for infrastructure automation, monitoring and maintenance. - Technical documentation, Confluence, JIRA Management.