# Shikhar Dogra

> Principal Software Engineer @ PANW

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shikhardogra

Working as a Principal Software Engineer @ PANW in the Prisma Access team.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2022 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States

### Software Engineer IV @ Cisco
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer III @ Cisco
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | San Jose, California
CSG IOS/XE Kernel Team member.

- Actively involved in the bring-up of new x86, ARM based hardware in enterprise switching, routing and IoT portfolios on Cisco's proprietary IOS-XE based operating system.
- Integral part of the team that designed and built the infrastructure of in-house OpenEmbedded-based Linux distribution for Kernel and SDK build.
- Constantly involved in solving critical customer issues in the base OS: Networking, File Systems, Scheduling, Resiliency, Memory leaks/corruptions and many more.
- Working towards cleaner code between platform-specific and agnostic pieces and also re-writing existing code to make it more generic and contributing back to Open source.
- Actively engaged with the Open source community to look for new features that can be integrated/backported to improve the efficiency and reliability of the OS.
- Responsible for team’s lab setup and management of all in field and under development platforms used for bring up and testing purposes along with automation scripts development to enable their efficient use by the team across multiple time zones.

### Software Engineer II @ Cisco
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, California
CSG IOS/XE Kernel team member.

- Involved in Kernel development for various Cisco platforms under works and in field.
- Integrated the Vendor code for kernel and FOSS on a regular basis and maintained build infrastructure     for SDK builds.
- Maintained existing platforms deployed in field and under development via customer found issues and internally found issues reported as bugs on team.
- Enhanced existing API’s in Cisco's proprietary operating system for application development and improvement.

### Staff Research Associate @ UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Greater Los Angeles Area

### Graduate Student Researcher @ UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
- Building a smart power source by integrating Lithium - iron phosphate batteries with the power grid.
- Designing an automated battery-grid switching mechanism; with an intelligent gateway for input.
- Using Arduino board with Wifi interface to wirelessly take gateway input and a 4 pole double throw relay for switching.
- Implementing the gateway on Raspberry Pi to intelligently decide the input for the switching mechanism, depending on parameters such as the power demands and Li-ion battery pack monitoring.

### Electrical/Software Engineer @ Vantage Vehicle International Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Corona, California, USA
- Build the new Li – ion Battery pack for Low Speed Electric Vehicles range of the company.
- Integrated Orion BMS and Elcon charger with the pack to develop the entire battery management system.
- Worked on an R&D project involving a new type of charging mechanism to be installed in vehicles.

### Chairperson, IEEE NIEC @ IEEE
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
- Managed and supervised a total of 1 technical and 2 non-technical event a month and couple of seminars.

### Treasurer, IEEE NIEC @ IEEE
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011

### Marketing Head(NIEC), IEEE GINI @ IEEE
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
- Interacted and maintained positive communication with other student branches of the section. 
- Planned the publicizing of our branches events and seminars in other student branches of IEEE all over Delhi.

### Summer Trainee @ MTNL
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | ITTM, Shadipur
- Examined Mobile Switching Centers and Base Station Controller’s used by M.T.N.L in its communication systems.
- Trained in the working of a telephone exchange; ranging from basic phone call establishment to various services provided to the user including ISP, ISDN, WLL, broadband.

### Trainee @ Prolific System & Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
- Studied microcontroller architecture, coding in assembly and embedded C language.
- Based on the knowledge acquired, assembled the circuit and programmed a microcontroller for a PC Controlled Car.
- Integrated the embedded circuit with a PC to control the motors on the board via PC input (PC Controlled Car).


## Education
### Master's degree in Electrical Engineering
UCLA

### B.Tech. in Electronics And Communication
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

### Modern School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12