# Sandeep Shukla > Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sandeepshukla I am a result-driven, efficient, adaptable and enthusiastic person who likes to work on challenging projects. I have a good problem solving ability and like to take initiative for a given task. I have passion for programming and like to solve challenges. I have worked on several popular and cutting edge technologies. Having ability to think out of box, I like to suggest my ideas and come-up with better solutions. I have strong personal and inter-communication skills. • Over 8 years of Industrial experience as a Backend Software Developer/Engineer • Hands on experience in Python, C++, JAVA • Deep understanding of Distributed Systems and Micro-Services Architecture using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and Kafka • Experienced in writing web services and RESTFul API's using Python, Django and Flask • Experienced working on distributed architecture and asynchronus programming • Ability to write unit-tests and integration tests for application stability • Optimize application and DB to improve overall performance • Strong background knowledge in data structures, algorithms and software design methods • Proven ability to take project ownership • Worked on Agile development methodologies (SCRUM) and Continuous Integration(CI) Specialties: Python, Django, C++, JAVA, Spark and AWS Cloud Area of interest: To work as a developer in the core application team ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2022 – Present | United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Mapbox Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area - Worked in the Telemetry and Data Platform team which drives the navigation, live traffic and movement of MapBox - Process over 400 million miles of data and persist billions of records every day - Develop cutting edge distributed Ingestion pipeline to process Real-Time data using Python, Spark, Scala, Apache Flink, Airflow, and AWS(EMR, ECS, Cloudformation, CloudWatch, Kinesis Stream, Firehose, Lambdas, S3, Glue and Athena) - Work cross-domain with other teams to understand their requirements and provide features - Deliver solid features with tests, monitoring and documents ### Senior Software Engineer @ Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 | United States - Worked on the development of the micro-services based Introspect Security Analytics Engine and Big Data Platform - The Aruba Cloud connect is where all the apps run including other service such as Clear Pass Management and Store - Architect, design and implement backend, middleware (platform) and infrastructure services on distributed systems 
using Python, Java, Flask, Scala, Spark, SQLAlchemy(ORM), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes and Hadoop - Currently working on the next generation, real-time Vulnerability Detection Cloud App for IoET devices across the network - Enhanced ETL pipeline to capture real-time User Entity Behavior Alerts and promote high speed data processing - Lead the high-performance Rule Engine application to produce custom alerts with user-defined rules against real-time network traffic using Apache Drools, Scala and Spark job to promote parallel processing - Designed and developed new RESTful API’s, Web Services and optimized legacy code for faster search and UI rendering - Conceptualized, architected and developed a generic notification framework which tracks and handle critical issues - Wrote a mission-critical, robust and easy to use Data Migration framework for HDFS and Elasticsearch database - Strengthened various critical applications such as Search Data Access layer, Data mapper and ETL workflow ### Software Engineer - Backend Application Developer @ Cyan (acquired by Ciena) Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Petaluma, ca - Worked in the core engineering team as an Application developer - Designed, developed and documented web services and RESTful API's using Python and Django - Worked on Cyan's distributed backbone on improving and adding new functionality - Implemented security measures for an application using protocols such as LDAP and RADIUS - Developed new features, re-factored legacy code and fixed bugs for Network Management System using Python and Twisted (asynchronous programming framework) - Took project ownership and worked on complete project lifecycle ### Teaching Associate (On-Campus) @ Department of Computer Science, California State University-Chico Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 - Assisted the professor in lecture and lab - Performed grading by making suitable test cases ### Intern, Developer @ SAP Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto I worked on Data Services and Business Objects Application. - Developed features and fixed bugs for the Data Services application using Python and C++ - Wrote unit-tests and integration tests for application stability ### Student Web/IT Assistant (On-Campus) @ Student Health Center, California State University-Chico Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 - Developed and maintained Student Health Center website using ASP.NET, C#, jQuery and Cascade tool server - Provided IT Support ### Research Assistant (On-Campus) @ Student Health Center, California State University-Chico Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 - Developed web applications and survey forms for California Pavement Preservation Center using PHP, JAVASCRIPT, JQUERY, HTML, CSS and MySQL as a backend. ### Developer, Intern @ BCS Innovations, India Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 - Worked on “Wireless Surveillance Systems” for robust Server Security using J2SE and J2EE technologies as a part of Bachelor's project - Developed Servlets and JSP's to handle communication between server and client - Applied Black-box and White-box testing techniques to test the application - Fixed bugs to improve the performance of the application ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science California State University, Chico ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Pune University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sandeep-shukla-ai --- Source: https://flows.cv/sandeepshukla JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sandeepshukla/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12