# Vish Ramamurthy

> Staff Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vishramamurthy

Seasoned technology professional with deep expertise in building distributed, scalable systems for premium brands (Palo Alto Networks, Verizon, Harman, AOL). Proficient in developing REST-based microservices with Spring Boot and a strong focus on test-driven development, security, observability, and performance optimization. Experienced across all major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and adept at leading cross-functional, globally distributed teams in fast-paced, agile environments. Proven track record delivering production-grade software, mentoring engineers, and collaborating closely with customers to resolve complex issues.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2018 – Present | Santa Clara, CA
Developing cloud security products for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The technology stack includes streaming technologies such as Apache Storm, Kafka Streams, Amazon SQS; Groovy, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL; Spring Boot and microservices; GCP Pub/Sub, BigQuery; Kubernetes; Java, Gradle, and Maven.

Key Strengths

1) Microservices and REST APIs
- Java/Spring Boot, Spring Cloud
- API Gateway, security hardening
- Tracing, observability
- Designing and implementing scalable architectures

2) Cloud & DevOps
- GCP, AWS, Azure; Kubernetes; Docker
- CI/CD pipelines (Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, Travis, Harness)

3) Performance & Security
- Latency tuning, parallelization, caching
- API security: OAuth/OIDC, SAML, JWT, mTLS
- Identity management: Okta/Ping

4) FedRamp and High Availability
- Involved in FedRamp compliance (AWS and GCP GovCloud) and HA (high availability) set up in GCP

5) Collaboration & Leadership
- Cross-functional coordination (Product/Program Management, DevOps, InfoSec, DBOps)
- Sprint planning, mentoring juniors and interns

6) Customer & Stakeholder Focus
- Direct engagement with customers to resolve issues
- Marketplace integrations; IT systems coordination

7) AI-assisted Development
- Using AI coding tools (Sourcegraph Cody, Google Gemini, GitHub Copilot) for software development over the past year

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Evident.io
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Pleasanton, CA
Worked on cloud security products for AWS and Azure. Technology stack consisted of Apache Storm, Amazon SQS, Groovy, Kafka, Spring Boot, microservices, Java 8, Gradle. Company was acquired by Palo Alto Networks

### Lead Sys Consultant/Software Engineer @ Verizon Labs
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara, CA
Worked on VOD (Video on Demand) content processing system for Go90(mobile) and IPTV offerings. Technologies used include Scala, micro services, Spray, Akka, Mongo db, Git, sbt, Jenkins, Travis

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Rovi Corporation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Santa Clara, CA
Project lead for a cloud based, web services platform, to expose the company’s metadata products as REST based api’s to customers (Comcast, Pandora, iTunes, Google, Samsung).

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Aha Radio
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, CA
Aha Radio was the first interactive, on-demand, personalized radio that safely connects consumers to their favorite audio and Internet content on demand while in the automobile and on the go. 

Hands-on Technical Lead for building the content discovery and management platform using REST based api's. Developed a mobile application for content discovery using the JQuery Mobile framework. Worked on the next generation api for content discovery, which allows clients to build richer applications. Integrated the platform with Google Analytics and coordinated development with the offshore team.

### Project Lead @ Citrix Systems
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
Hands-on project lead for a complete rewrite of the citrix.com portal. Project used Java/J2EE/Spring, Alfresco CMS and Agile technologies.

### Sr. Software Engineer @ AOL
Jan 2003 – Jan 2009
Worked on social media applications like Blogs, Personalization and Chat.Project Lead on Blogs.


## Education
### M.S in Computer Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology

### Master of Science - MS in Mechanical Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology

### Basic & Advanced Android Programming
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension

### Basic iOS programming
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension

### Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
University of Mumbai


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vish-ramamurthy-8b559b1

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Last updated: 2026-04-12