# Punit Mutha

> Engineering leader | Ex- AWS | PANW

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/punitmutha

Acumen in architecture, design and development of multi-threaded, scalable, distributed, platforms with Java and Spring framework. 
Timely execution of the projects. Adept at overseeing all phases of the software development life cycle, from proof concept to implementation.
Leading teams to deliver high quality projects in timely manner. Collaborate with multi-region teams and execute projects.
Solutions provided using:
Java, Microservices, REST, MYSQL, REDIS, Logback/Slf4J, Swagger, JUnit, Mockito, Jacoco, GCP ( Bigquery, cloudsql, deployment manager, cloud build, dataflow), Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Apache Airflow, Jenkins, Gradle, Spring boot, Hadoop,Spark,Istio (envoy), kubernetes, docker, gRPC

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Zscaler
Jan 2025 – Present | Santa Clara, CA
Architecting Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) control plane microservices powering secure access for millions of enterprise users globally

Driving cross-org engineering initiatives bridging control plane and data plane teams to deliver high-throughput, low-latency ZPA tunneling infrastructure

Designing and evolving cloud-native microservices on the ZPA control plane — focusing on policy management, scalability, and resilience at hyperscale

Hands-on with delivering coding, deployment, reviews of high impact projects in ZPA

Pioneering AI-native developer workflows within the platform — including MCP (Model Context Protocol) server integrations to bring LLM-powered tooling into internal engineering pipelines

### Sr software Engineer @EMR @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, CA
- Data Access control features for EMR@EC2
- Fine grain access control with AWS Lakeformation
- Working with Spark, EMRFS, AWS Glue, AWS LakeFormation
- Performance optimizations in Apache Spark queries for OTF formats (Hudi, Iceberg, Delta) tables
- Managing team for multiple projects like Multi-Dialect Views, RecordServer (Data filter layer)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
One of the early phase engineer to conceive and architect Cortex platform that provides high throughput, multi-tenant data-lake in cloud, and an echo-system of diverse set of applications and services that operate on it. 
Designed and created Cortex Platform using Istio (envoy), kubernetes, docker, gRPC, kafka on GCP, GCP Resources like Deployment Manager, Cloud Composer ( Apache Airflow ), BigQuery , Cloud SQL to create and manage resources for multi-tenant micro-services

Use of Hadoop/spark/big data frame works to migrate on-prem data to cloud

Efficient use and update of Kafka topics to manage millions of events coming per second.

Part of the team for security visualization and analytics product which analyzes petabytes of data. The team implemented everything: infrastructure, backend, React frontend. Product heavily used by thousands of customers for visualization, notification and reports.


Solutions provided using:
Java, Microservices, REST, MYSQL, REDIS, Logback/Slf4J, Swagger, JUnit, Mockito, Jacoco, GCP ( Bigquery, cloudsql, deployment manager, cloud build, dataflow), Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Apache Airflow, Jenkins, Gradle, Spring boot, Hadoop,Spark,Istio (envoy), kubernetes, docker, gRPC,

### Principal Member Of Technical Staff @ Oracle
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Principal engineer in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage team.

### Senior Software Developer @ Avalanche Technology Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | fremont, california
File System Development

### Member of Technical Staff @ NetApp
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 | Sunnyvale, California
Member for Deduplication team and WAFL File System team - responsible for optimizing occupied storage space. Also working on optimizing file system performance

### Intern @ NetApp
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | sunnyvale, california
optimization of storage space during file-system snapshot/backup

### Senior Devlopment Engineer @ Calsoft
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007
implementation of journalling driver used for backup.Automated setup installing for unix flavors


## Education
### BE in Information Technology
Pune Institute of Computer Technology

### BE in Information Technology
Savitribai Phule Pune University

### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of Southern California


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12