# Atul Gosain

> Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/atulgosain

A seasoned technical leader with 15 years of experience in architecting and developing systems. These systems were typically designed to be distributed, scalable and extensible.
Most of my work has been involved in the ideation, creation, and enablement of software systems like infrastructure at the application layer like WAN optimization, Elastic Load Balancing etc. 
Experienced in the domains of Networking, network management, security etc. 
I have been developing systems using languages and frameworks like Java, Spring, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc. Also adept at enabling agile architectures using application infrastructure systems such as Kubernetes, Docker, Apache Kafka, Zookeeper and distributed databases. 

Apart from work, I have wide-ranging interests in areas like Finance, Cryptocurrencies, Business and product management, Machine Learning, Autonomous driving etc. I would love to use my experience to further the progress in these areas.

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2020 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States

### Senior Staff Engineer @ Lumina Networks
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Jose
Opensource participation in ODL for Netconf, yangtools, callhome project.
Design and deployment of services on Kubernetes.

### Sr. Technical leader @ Brocade
Jan 2010 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Software Defined Networking
* Designed/Developed SDN applications for Policy Manager, ZTP Server, VNF Manager based on OpenDaylight and Openstack.
* Provided PKI support to ZTP application - SSH key based authentication support for netconf callhome application and certificate based trust establishment for bootstrap application. 
* Contributed to opendaylight projects for netconf, yangtools, callhome etc to better support our applications and customers.
* Developed in Java, Python. Used Yang models for ODL applications and TOSCA definitions for VNF provisioning. 

Virtualization and private cloud (Application Resource Broker) 
* Designed, developed and led the team for providing elastic load balancing capabilities to Brocade ADX. 
* Enabled the customers of ADX to scale their applications up or down as per the performance SLA's for the application. 
* Used virtualization computing capabilities from VMWare, KVM, Openstack etc and NoSQL DB like MongoDB. Built using Java, Spring, Hibernate technologies.

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010
Network Management System for Cisco WAAS.
Technologies used were Java, MySQL, Cassandra etc.

### Technical Lead @ Yahoo!
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Yahoo Hotjobs. 
Yahoo Enthusiasts.

### Software Engineer @ Cisco ODC
Jan 2003 – Jan 2006
Cisco Works
VSPT (Voice Service Provisioning Tool) for PGW (PSTN Gateway)


## Education
### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science
YMCA University of Science & Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/atul-gosain-b19a076

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Last updated: 2026-04-12