# Srushti Singatagere Basavaraj > Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/srushtisingatagerebasavaraj Senior Software Engineer with expertise in the Design and Development of Backend On-Premise & Cloud Native Services and Platforms. ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2025 – Present | Santa Clara, CA ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Santa Clara, CA Developing a new AI-driven security solution, Action Plan, to simplify and expedite security remediation, reducing the number of alerts by 26x. - Leading and developing key workflows for Action Plan, including Action Plan hydration, lifecycle management, user feedback management using Apache Kafka, API RBAC enablement, and integration with the notification system. - Developed new backend pipelines using Databricks for data aggregations and built new microservice to expose public facing paginated Action Plan APIs. Designed and developed backend architecture for Cloud security data analytics systems, enabling customers to make informed, data-driven security decisions. - Built RESTful microservices and APIs for the Command Center dashboard, providing a centralized, near real-time view of cloud security incidents and risks. - Pre-aggregated alerts data using efficient data pipelines, reducing API response times from 30+ seconds to under 1 second and enabling faster security data processing. - Developed APIs generating key security metrics, including Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) of alerts and Alerts count by Resolution Reason, enabling actionable insights. - Developed and optimized the ingestion of billions of security alerts using MemSQL pipelines for real-time data processing at scale. - Developed efficient ETL pipelines with AWS Glue and Spark for accurate data aggregation and transformation. - Orchestrated Spark jobs with Apache Airflow to automate and scale data workflows, ensuring reliable analytics. ### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States Worked on building a Cloud platform called VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). VCF provides integrated cloud infrastructure and cloud management services to run customer enterprise applications in private environment. As part of the Cloud platform scaling initiative, led the re-design and development of Locking and Functionality services, resulting in a 40% improvement of memory and CPU utilization and enabling parallelism in cluster scale-out and scale-down workflows. ### Member of Technical Staff - 3 @ VMware Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, RabbitMQ ➣ Graphene Platform  Built a cloud native platform to manage a customer’s distributed SDDC from a centralized location. - Designed and developed highly available, multi-tenant Cloud services (Compliance as a Service, Message Broker Service) on AWS that are responsible for monitoring and managing compliance of a Customer’s infrastructure. - Led and developed an on-premise Stateless Agent that ran as a Kubernetes container to evaluate compliance rules. - Mentored and designed an intern project that created a cloud service (Provisioning as a Service) to provision the infrastructure in distributed data centers of choice using Terraform. - Initial POCs:   * Setup Cloud services in VMware managed Kubernetes Cluster (VDP) using Helm  * Setup Service and Customer Organizations in VMware Cloud Services Platform (CSP)  * Assessed the usage of OAuth2.0 flows supported by CSP for authorization. ### Member Of Technical Staff - 2 @ VMware Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | United States ➣ SDDC Pike Place: Developed a platform to deploy and configure SDDC infrastructure capabilities. Defined a Domain Specific Language (DSL) to describe these capabilities and developed a Control Plane component to instantiate the DSL. Used the platform to add "secure workload domain" capability by enabling the AppDefense product. ➣ Imaging Service: Led and developed a lightweight standalone service to image bare metal servers before adding them to the infrastructure. Also, developed a CLI and enhanced existing UI for the service. ➣ ConfigInsight: Developed a RESTful ConfigInsight service for all point-in-time SDDC configuration. Implemented API driven detection of configuration drift and built a Python CLI to invoke the drift detection APIs. ### Software Developer Intern @ IBM, Ltd Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Jose, California Technologies used: Python, OpenStack - Network Security Groups: Developed a python application to analyze the performance of VMs configured with Security Groups in a private Cloud setup. - Virtual Private Network : Analyzed performance of a network in a cloud environment by establishing secured point to point connection between servers using IPsec protocol suite. Used various performance benchmarking tools like Iperf and Netperf. ### Software Engineer @ Akamai Technologies Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Bengaluru Area, India Technologies used - Apex, VirtualForce Pages, Force.com - Designed and developed application on the Force.com platform for global sales and marketing business processes. - Designed and implemented a new workflow to speed up the generation of the quote and agreement documents using VisualForce pages. - Developed features in the Akamai Services shopping cart page using Apex language. Simplified the entire cart for a better shopping experience. ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Computer Science University of Southern California ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer RV College Of Engineering ### Associate’s Degree in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Electronics Vidhya Vardhaka Sardar Patel PU College ### High School Venkat International Public School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/srushtisb --- Source: https://flows.cv/srushtisingatagerebasavaraj JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/srushtisingatagerebasavaraj/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12