# Gauri Salaskar

> Staff Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gaurisalaskar

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2022 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Gigamon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Santa Clara, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Gigamon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Santa Clara, California, United States
• Working with Gigamon’s Network Function Virtualization team focusing on the continued development of an infrastructure layer to configure and support different packet processing applications on various public/private cloud platforms.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Gigamon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara, California
•	Enhanced Gigamon’s H-series node efficiency by approximately 8% through the implementation of 
                Data Access Layer for the Unified Gateway.
•	Developed APIs in C to build SQL commands to query the database.
•	Implemented Data Structures to store the data that is put or retrieved from the database.
•	Refactored the code with my team members according to the client’s requirements.

### Product Engineer @ Ushva
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mumbai
•	Worked in a project at the Indian Institute of Technology to integrate IOT (Internet of Things) with        solar energy.
•	Analysed the system requirements to build a smart solar inverter.
•	Using Embedded C in MPLAB IDE, generated a sinusoidal pulse width modulated wave to drive the IGBTs of the inverter.
•	Designed an LCL filter to generate a sinusoidal wave of 230V, 50Hz achieving the Harmonic Distortion to be less than 10%.
•	Simulated the circuit in MATLAB along with a feedback system to check the frequency response and to obtain the desired output

### Systems Engineer @ IGATE Global Solutions Pvt Ltd
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Airoli, Navi Mumbai
•	Worked as an Oracle DBA (Database Administrator) for IGATE's client.
•	Scheduled SQL scripts in Oracle to perform various tasks like purging, indexing, backup, checking the DB status, sizing etc.
•	Used Oracle 12C to extract results for creating monthly reports for the client.  
•	Interacted with the client on a weekly basis for results, updates, and suggestions.

### Student Intern @ Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Implemented and tested a control system used to obtain a desired speed and direction for a DC servo motor for use in radiation sensing robots.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University of Mumbai


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gauri-salaskar

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Last updated: 2026-04-12