# Prativa Bawri

> Staff Software Engineer at VMware by Broadcom

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/prativa

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, CA
Working on certificate and password management for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), an on-prem platform for managing compute, storage, and networking infrastructure. 
                                                                                        Designing and implementing secure lifecycle workflows for certificates and credentials including rotation, validation, trust store synchronization, and maintaining PKI trust chain integrity across VCF components. Experience working with TLS certificates and internal CAs such as VMCA, along with standard OpenSSL-based tooling. 
                                                                                                Also working on centralized password policy enforcement and secure credential lifecycle management for platform accounts.

Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL

### Staff Software Engineer @ VMware Carbon Black
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, CA
Designed and developed an Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solution that involves alert deduplication, classification, enrichment and correlation of EDR, EPP, IDS, NTA alerts. Building threat graphs by correlating enriched alert data to help visualize and triage incidents.

Designed and developed Managed Detection and Response (MDR) features like Threat Hunting that enables SOC analysts to find threats in historical data by utilizing the Carbon Black’s query language to write Indicator of Compromise (IOCs)

Led the migration of core applications from AWS to GCP after the acquisition by Broadcom, re-architecting infrastructure from AWS managed services to Kubernetes Operator-based Custom Resources (CRDs)
running on GKE.

Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, REST, OpenAPI, AWS services (SNS, SQS, ECS, Lambda, Aurora, S3, Kinesis, OpenSearch, DynamoDB), PostgreSQL, Apache Flink, Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus.

### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware Carbon Black
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
1. A lead engineer to build a Managed Detection and Response(MDR) platform that integrates seamlessly with Carbon Black Cloud. This is to increase efficacy of MD Analysts to be able to handle 100k endpoints per L1 Analyst.
2. Design the architecture of various micro-services involved in MDR.
3. Build features for efficient alert classification, correlation, triage and investigation and fatigue reduction.
4. Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, Python, AWS services (SNS, SQS, ECS, Lambda, Aurora, S3, Kinesis), Apache Flink, PostgreSQL

### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto
1. Lead the integration of SaltStack in vRA to enable manage software lifecycle on machines provisioned via vRA.
2. Developed port-forwarding through vRA by allowing NAT rules to be specified on network components connected to vSphere VM and NSX Load Balancers.
3. A lead contributor to the open-source project that enables integration between Terraform and VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) which allows Terraform users to request and provision vRA IaaS resources such as machine, network, load-balancer, along with initial setup of cloud accounts, zones, and projects across multiple public and private clouds.
4. Mentored a summer intern to develop an open source Visual Studio Code extension to author vRA blueprints in VS code and create and manage vRA (on-prem and cloud) deployments helping boost adoption of vRA.
Technologies: Golang, Java, Springboot, Typescript

### Member of Technical Staff 3 @ VMware
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California
An Open-source VMware Terraform provider for vRealize Automation (vRA) 7
1. Developed a self-contained deployable integration between Terraform and vRA 7 which allows Terraform users to provision and update infrastructure on private or public cloud. This enables developers to quickly provision infrastructure and adopt vRA without worrying about the complex UI and APIs of vRA 7
2. UI development for various features in vRA like quick setup to guide the users through infrastructure configuration. This includes adding cloud accounts, creating cloud-zones, projects, network and storage profiles, thereby, laying the foundation for infrastructure provisioning and management.
Technologies: Golang, Angular, Protractor for UI E2E

### Member of Technical Staff 2 @ VMware
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto
VMware Cloud Assembly: An Infrastructure as Code(IaC) automation SaaS solution designed to expedite infrastructure consumption and application delivery across multiple clouds

1. Contributed to blueprint service to allow user to author IaC and orchestrate new and existing deployments with pluggable providers (compute, network, storage, AWS CFT)
2. Added Kubernetes as a provider in blueprint to manage applications running on pods
3. Integrated the automation service with Git to enable blueprint versioning
4. Integrated with VMware Marketplace to consume published blueprints
5. Designed and developed a pluggable CLI framework for the automation service
Technologies: Java, Golang, Sprint boot, Angular 5

### Intern, vRealize Automation @ VMware
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater Boston Area
vRealize Suite: A hybrid and a multi-cloud management platform for IT automation.
1. Designed and developed vRealize Production Test to monitor the production health of vRealize Suite deployment 
2. Focussing on health monitoring from the initial deployment to the operational phase
3. Provide fast detection and remediation by generating clear reports
4. Reduced the time, effort and cost of managing the outages in SDDC
5. Significantly reduced GSS support tickets by making the customers self-equipped
Technologies: Java, TestNG, Google Web Toolkit

### Student Worker @ Computer Science Outreach & Education - UT Dallas
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Taught computer programming, web-page designing, animation and game designing to schools students and working professionals.

### Software Engineer @ IBM Software Labs
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Bangalore
Hardware Management Console(HMC): A virtualization solution to deploy and manage systems and virtual machines on IBM Power Systems
1. Designed and developed System Template and Partition Templates aimed at automating the configuration and management of virtual machines in Power Servers.
2. Developed template support for I/O and CPU virtualization features like, virtual Ethernet, vSCSI, vFC, Shared Storage Pool, SRI-OV, Shared Processor Pool, Micro-partitioning, etc.
3. Achieved significantly reduced manual efforts and configuration from a week to 5 hours. 
4. Supported globalization of HMC into 17 different languages.
Technologies: Java, REST,  JAX-RS, Vaadin


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas

### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Tezpur University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/prativa-bawri-b9797351

---
Source: https://flows.cv/prativa
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/prativa/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-12