# Giridhar M Sharma > Software Developer at Broadcom Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/giridharmsharma - 15+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering - Architecting and developing a Kubernetes-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for enterprise security products (NSX Security Services Platform) - Building Linux OVA appliances with containerized microservices for automated infrastructure provisioning - Implementing Cluster API (CAPI) based infrastructure automation for Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management - Developing platform services using Go and Temporal workflows for reliable distributed orchestration - Platform engineering: deploying and managing core Kubernetes components (Contour ingress, cert-manager, Cluster API controllers) - Enabling multi-tenant platform consumption for product verticals (NSX Intelligence, Bare Metal Security) - Performance profiling and optimization of Go applications using pprof, heap analysis, and goroutine debugging - Expertise in VMware NSX software-defined networking and datacenter virtualization - CI/CD pipeline design with Jenkins, Concourse, Helm charts, and Gerrit-based code review workflows - Container orchestration: Helm chart development, Kubernetes operators, deployment strategies - Experience with hypervisors (VMware ESXi, KVM) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) - Python for test automation frameworks and systems programming - Datacenter networking: L2/L3 protocols, Fibre Channel storage, EMC storage systems ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Broadcom Jan 2021 – Present | palo alto ### Senior Member of Technical Staff @ VMware Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Member of the Technical Staff @ VMware Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Palo alto ### Sustaining Engineer @ Juniper Networks Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 • Analyze the customer issues reported in detail and root cause the problem by performing additional debugging and troubleshooting. • Provide software technical engineering support, including configuration assistance and troubleshooting of Juniper products and other peripheral systems, networking equipment, servers, and clients for timely resolution of issues in customer environment. • Worked on troubleshooting lot of L2 through L5 level protocols such as STP, LACP, VRRP, TCP/IP, BGP etc. • Document and reproduce customer problems, and coordinate fixes by development engineering. • Provide engineering support, which includes handling escalations for global technical support teams. ### Software Test Engineer @ Cisco Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Jose Cisco ONEPK API testing with N7k: • Developed test plan for Cisco's Open Networking Element Kit (ONEPK) API's. • Wrote test codes to test QoS ONEP API's using python SDK. • Configured various QoS policymaps and classmaps on cisco nexus 7000 though ONEPK java APIs and tested with traffic using Ixia. TIE tool development: • Was part of development of internal tool for QE (storage) known as TIE as Jammer. • TIE existed as initiator and target emulator. We implemented Jammer functionality on it. • Built a hack in NXOS to redirect the packets from supervisor to Octeon line card Platform testing in Cisco MDS switches • Tested new MDS platform 9706 with FC line card. • Executed the test cases as part of platform testing. • Build the topology and configured the FC traffic using JDSU. Golden automation testing: • Worked on various MDS switches and storage devices as Test engineer. • Developed a web tool for golden team for easy management of sanity submission. • Worked on Sanity and regression scripts in TCL as part of golden testing team. ### Graduate Research Assitant @ Oklahoma State University Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Stillwater, OK • Installation and Maintenance of Linux servers and storage. • Installation and configuration of software such as cadence on Linux servers. • Backing up data to the remote backup server. ### Assoc Implementation Engineer @ EMC Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 • Deployed and configured EMC Clariion, Symmetix, Celarra, SAN switches and Directors at various customer sites. • Configured and Deployed EMC software such as Mirrorview, Snapview, Sancopy and backup software known as EMC Networker. • Design project implementation plan as a part of project management. ## Education ### Master of Science in Computer Science Oklahoma State University ### Bachelor of Engineering in computer science Visvesvaraya Technological University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/giridhar-m-sharma-41290b8 --- Source: https://flows.cv/giridharmsharma JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/giridharmsharma/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12