About

Siva Prasad is a seasoned Sr Principle Software Engineer with over 17 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is currently working at Fortinet as a Sr Principal Software Engineer, where he is responsible for designing and implementing end-to-end functional and performance testing automation frameworks. Siva is proficient in various technologies, including GIt/Gerrit, Kubernetes, AWS, Ansible, Packer, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins CiCD, and more. He has experience in migrating monolithic applications to microservices and working with virtualization technologies like VWare, KVM, AWS, OpenStack, Docker, Virsh, GuestFish, Packer, and more. Furthermore, Siva has expertise in search technologies like Lucene and ElasticSearch, security protocols, vulnerability testing, automation frameworks, scripting languages like Python, Bash, and Perl, provisioning tools such as Puppet, CI-tools like Jenkins, and monitoring tools like Nagios. Siva has worked on various projects throughout his career, including migrating a 12-year-old application from CentOS 6 to CentOS 8, designing and developing upgrade and migration frameworks, managing the CiCd pipeline from scratch, building various appliances like docker containers, OVA, Qcow2, vhd, vhdx, Amazon AMI, IMG for hardware, making product FIPS compliant, and making virtual appliances secure by tracking and mitigating vulnerabilities. Siva holds a Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) degree from Sri Venkateswara University and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Computer Science. He also has experience in Xth Class from ST. Josephs. Overall, Siva Prasad is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer who has a broad range of expertise in various technologies and has worked on multiple projects throughout his career.