# Prasanna Kumar

> Software Engineering Leader

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/prasannakumar1

Specialties: Experience in designing, implementing boot code(UEFI, BIOS and FCode), Firmware, Linux and Solaris device drivers, Solaris boot subsystem.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2019 – Present | Santa Clara County, California, United States

### Software Engineering @ Vexata
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | San Jose
Platform bringup, monitoring, infrastructure and tools development for Vexata Enterprise flash array.
Roles and RBAC implementation

### Manager @ Brocade
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | United States
Managed adapter firmware and boot teams(onsite and remote(team of 10 engineers)

### Staff Software Engineer @ Brocade
Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 | San  Jose CA
Designing and developing boot code(UEFI, BIOS, FCode) for host bus adapters and converged network adapters.
Development of adapter firmware for Brocade adapters.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006
Development of boot code for Infiniband adapters and SDP(Socket Direct Protocol)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Topspin Communications
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005
Development of boot code for Infiniband adapters and SDP(Socket Direct Protocol)

### MTS @ Sun Microsystems
Jan 2001 – Jan 2004
Developing and maintaining Solaris x86 drivers,  utils and libraries


## Education
### MTech in Computer Science and Engg
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

### BTech in Computer Software Engineering
Sri Venkateswara University

### Kendriya Vidyalaya


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12