About

Kunal Kannav is an experienced Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks with a strong background in several areas, including networking, project management, network architecture, application development, team leading, system testing and troubleshooting, and escalation management. With an excellent combination of education, training, and experience, Kunal has consistently met the highest organizational and project goals and expectations. He is hard-working, driven, and adept at handling multiple tasks simultaneously, with excellent attention to detail and a proven track record of developing and implementing system solutions that meet with consistent success. Currently working as a Software Engineer III, Infrastructure at Proofpoint, Kunal builds, maintains, and scales infrastructure for continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems, leading to an improvement in the time to ship new feature releases. He develops automated workflows and tools in Python for administering and maintaining repetitive tasks, as well as to maintain the sanity of the Proofpoint Infrastructure. Kunal implements monitoring and alerting using Grafana, Nagios, Prometheus for Proofpoint product infrastructure, and deploys and maintains third-party tools and their integration with Proofpoint products in Docker and Kubernetes environment. He also works closely with product engineering teams to define and implement security scanning in their pipeline workflows and fosters a culture of robust documentation as it pertains to release processes and CI/CD. Kunal has previously worked as a Network Automation Engineer at Tesla, where he designed, configured, and managed the enterprise network architecture as a part of the Network Operations team, working closely with Juniper Switches/Routers, Palo Alto Firewalls. He engineered and implemented the automated process of new device onboarding, device configuration, and device monitoring, resulting in improving onboarding time by 70%. Kunal has also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he assisted a professor for the ‘Networking Services’ course, supervised students in their Network Labs, helped them Troubleshoot and Complete their Lab Activities, tutored and assisted students for their assignments to reinforce their concepts and clear their doubts, and graded the Assignments, Quizzes, Exams, and Lab Reports submitted by students. Kunal holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Networks and Telecommunications from Rochester Institute of Technology, a Data Science Professional Certificate from Stanford University School of Engineering, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Mumbai. His tech stack includes infra, Software Engineer, CI/CD, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, AWS