About

Kirankumar Patil is a highly motivated and self-starting Senior Staff Engineer at Palo Alto Networks with extensive experience in software and firmware development. He is a hardworking and innovative individual with a strong work ethic and a passion for learning new technologies. Kirankumar has a proven track record of delivering well-tested, high-quality technology pieces and takes personal interest in providing his clients with the best possible outcome. With over 9 years of relevant experience, Kirankumar has worked on a variety of projects including SDN, micro-segmentation, NAND flash, virtualization, DPDK, SSD, load balancer, CLI server, and more. He has a good understanding of networking concepts and protocols such as OpenFlow, ARP, TCP/UDP, ICMP, DNS, BPF, and NFC. Kirankumar also has experience in debugging and multi-threading. Kirankumar has a good working experience and understanding of Linux internals and has worked on programming languages such as C, C++, and shell script. He has worked with tools such as Spirent, Wireshark, ctags, cscope, code collaborator, Git, Bitbucket, and debuggers such as Readelf, GDB, Lauterbach, Trace32, and JTAG. Currently working as an MTS3 at VMware, Kirankumar has also worked with Colortokens, Inc. as an MTS and Seagate as a Firmware Engineer. At Colortokens, he worked on a security product based on micro-segmentation and implemented DPDK to bypass the kernel, which significantly increased performance. He also worked on DNS, DNS response send to analytics through Kafka, and Linux and CentOS installers. At Seagate, he worked on firmware development for enterprise SSD, focusing on 3D NAND media interface in a multi-core storage SoC. Kirankumar holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering from PES College of Engineering. His tech stack includes Software Engineering and Kafka. Kirankumar is a team-oriented individual who cherishes technology ownership and is passionate about delivering the best possible outcome for his clients.