# Ibrahim Ansari

> Staff DevOps Engineer @ PANW, ex-AWS…

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ibrahimansari

versatile software engineer with experience across multiple disciplines of engineering

professional experience in: 
- cloud architecture & development (aws, azure, gcp)
- wireless technologies (nfv, 5g, lte, bluetooth)
- observability (elasticsearch, opensearch, grafana, prometheus)
- full stack web design & development (node.js, flask)
- android app design & development
- software testing (ci/cd, automation, lab architecture/design)

also delve in: 
- highly scalable distributed systems
- hybrid mobile app dev (react, flutter, cordova)
- video streaming
- ai/ml (gpt, llm, computer vision, nlp)
- security (cloud, white hat hacking, pen testing)
- data science
- hardware (wireless, robotics, iot, labs, design, fabrication)
- design (ui/ux, mock ups, graphic)
- photography & cinematography 

always learning something new

## Work Experience
### Staff DevOps Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2023 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States
Cortex and Prisma Cloud

### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Worked on managed OpenSearch storage team and optimized snapshot experience

### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
One of the first few SDE's on the Private 5G service, was part of the team till the service went GA at re:Invent 2022

### Software Engineer Intern @ Arista Networks
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara, California
Worked on test automation and google sheets scripting

### Software Engineer @ apisec.ai
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara
Worked on BitBucket and GitLab Issue Tracker integration:
• Interacted with REST API’s and JAVA SDK from BitBucket and GitLab.
• Added ability to create, update, and delete Issues from BitBucket or GitLab projects
to product.

### Software Engineer @ Xekera Systems Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara
Built a Python Web App to interface with Bluetooth Low Energy devices:
• App handled device Over The Air updates using Bluetooth Low Energy GATT.
• Built using Flask and MySQL as the Backend.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Minerva Networks
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Alviso, California
Minerva Video Streaming Android App:
- Worked directly with CTO to define Video streaming application requirements 
- Created UI Mockups for Android App
- Leveraged existing REST APIs for IOT device management to manage IP Camera
- Defined the REST API requirements for Minerva’s Back Office server to adapt to IP Camera Streams

Minerva Client setup box UI test automation:
- Developed scripts in Python and Selenium to automate UI Tests on Set-top Box Client
- Implemented behavior-driven development into testing environment using Behave for Python.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
San José State University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22