# Pramod Yadav > Principal Architect | Expert in Cloud Security & AI Systems | Designing Scalable, Reliable, and Intelligent Platforms | Engineering Leadership at Scale Location: Aromas, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/pramodyadav I’m a Principal Architect passionate about building scalable, intelligent, and secure cloud systems that enable innovation at global scale. With over a decade of experience designing and leading complex distributed systems, I specialize in cloud security, AI-driven architecture, and large-scale platform engineering. My career has been built on bridging deep engineering execution with strategic architectural vision — ensuring technology investments drive measurable business outcomes. At Palo Alto Networks, I help define and evolve the architectural direction of cloud security platforms trusted by enterprises worldwide. I work across engineering and product teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and intelligent systems, while mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of technical excellence. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence (SJSU), I’m expanding my expertise in machine learning, intelligent systems, and applied AI for cloud security. This academic foundation complements my professional experience and supports my long-term goal of contributing at the intersection of engineering innovation, AI strategy, and organizational leadership. Core Focus Areas: • Cloud-native architecture & distributed systems • AI & automation in security engineering • Platform scalability & reliability • Technical leadership & team development • Aligning system design with strategic business outcomes I believe impactful architecture combines technical mastery, clear vision, and empathy for people and systems — enabling organizations to innovate securely and scale confidently. ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2020 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States ### Staff Software Engineer @ Walmart eCommerce Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale ### Architect @ Nisum Technolgies Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Freemont, CA ### Technical Lead @ Blackhawk Network Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Pleasanton, CA Plan, schedule and execute all stages of enterprise software, hardware and system implementations. Assess business implications for each project phase and monitor progress to meet deadlines, standards and cost targets. Interact with stakeholders, gather high level business requirement and translate into work units. Participate & Lead design and development activities. Develop Web Services (RESTful) API within micro services framework to expose data augmentation and manipulation. Design ETL framework for Master Data Management. Generate, analyze and publish weekly data quality reports to keep right control on data set. Involved in deployment of application on Tomcat on AWS using Jenkins and AHP. Resolved numerous project issues including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep and divergent business and user needs. ### Senior Application Developer @ Gravitas Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 Lead team through performance improvements across Oder Management System (OMS) with in the business through use of distributed and scale able systems. Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams. Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones. Interact with the Clients, Business Analyst and Subject Matter Experts (SME) to understand and gather high level requirement. Participated in Technical Design and Development towards building application prototypes of an enterprise scale OMS platform. Involved in developing front and back end interfaces using Spring, Hibernate and Web Services. Design and develop Trade Capture screens for different asset types & Global Security Master (GSM) Interface from scratch for managing security master. Implemented ETL process for one time security master setup based on client feed. Interface to load historical data into new trade account system and output feeds to custodians and ALGO for risk management. Develop MIS and Client reports out of Cogency for reporting and regulatory purpose. Implementation of reporting and configuration Dashboard. Interacting with clients to gathering requirements towards trading interface. Implementation of Drools Rule Engine for validating Inbound and Outbound data to/from MSCI. ### Application Developer @ J.P. Morgan Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 Involved in Analyzing Software Requirements, Specification, Design and implementation of application. Created detailed design documents using UML (like Use case, Class, Sequence, and Component diagrams) using Rational Rose. Design and develop front end using JSP, JSTL, and Expression Language. Prepare and review the technical design for the system that adheres to the MVC architecture using Front Controller, Business Delegate and Data Access Object patterns. Designed and implemented the logging mechanism using Log4j API. Implemented Client Side and Server Side validations using Spring Validation Framework. Write and modify database stored procedures, triggers, functions, and PL/SQL Scripts in TOAD to improve database performance. ### Application Developer @ Rave Technologies Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 | Mumbai Area, India Gathering Requirements from Product Manager. Development using the Oracle Portal Framework. Analysis and Implementation of new Interface with Adobe Flex, which included writing the integration framework. Managing and coordinating the Weekly and Quarterly Live Client Release. Writing and executing JUnit Test Cases. Developer Training & Onsite/Offshore Coordination. ### Software Engineer @ CGI Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 Understanding 3270 screens components and designing HTML mockup. Preparing use cases and high level interfaces and classes. Development of JSPs, Struts Action and Form bean classes for business functionality. Implemented dummy request and response queue in IBM MQ. Delivering quality modules with proper documentation. ## Education ### Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence San José State University ### Bachelor's degree in Information Technology Montclair State University ### Bachelors in Information Technology St. Xavier's College ### HND in Computing Edexcel University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sp1ffygeek --- Source: https://flows.cv/pramodyadav JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/pramodyadav/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12