About

Pardu Ankireddy is a seasoned Software Engineer with 9 years of experience in IT Projects covering Analysis, designing, and architecting of L2/L3/L7 protocols in Networking. He is currently working as a Software Engineer 2 at F5 Networks, where he has gained expertise in cloud-native technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. He is also doing an Advanced Cloud Computing Certification from IIT Kanpur. Pardu has experience in projects to support L4-L7 protocols used by service providers (Diameter and SIP) to be orchestrated by Kubernetes. He has also worked on converting virtualized solutions to containerized solutions. His expertise on cloud-native technologies has enabled him to work on Local Traffic Manager (LTM) of BIGIP with Application Protocols (Diameter and SIP). Pardu has experience working in Agile Environment and Agile Methodologies of Scrum and Kanban. He follows daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospective for sprint. He has also worked with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework). Pardu's expertise in end-to-end testing right from platform validation, feature validation, and automation, which involves identifying test cases, manual testing followed by automation of features, has made him a valuable asset to any team. Prior to joining F5 Networks, Pardu has worked with Extreme Networks as Senior Associate QA Software Engineer and HCL as a Software Engineer. At Extreme Networks, he was part of the SQA Automation Team, where he worked on Layer 2/3 Protocols and Features with TCL/Python. He was also part of the Platform Verification Team, where he did manual testing of Layer 2 Features. At HCL, he was part of the L2VPN and Data Center Development Test Team in Cisco ODC and worked on Layer 2/Layer 3 Feature Testing, which included manual/automation testing. Pardu holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science from Bapatla Engineering College. He is skilled to think, decide and execute work in a timely manner and contribute to the team based on personal capability in his area of expertise. His relevant experience is 10.44 years, and he has a tech stack that includes Software Engineering, test, Kubernetes, QA, Docker, and Python.