About

Tushar Nargunde is a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer at PaloAlto Networks with expertise in Linux Kernel, Networking, TCP/IP, Sockets, Firewalls and C, Python programming. He is a Masters candidate at North Carolina State University, set to graduate in May 2019. With over 7 years of relevant experience, Tushar has spent 3 years working in a fast-paced startup environment in Linux Networking. He is highly motivated to work on Cloud environments and Linux, MacOS, Windows platforms development. Tushar has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, including Nutanix and Mojo Networks. At Nutanix, he was a Member of Technical Staff Intern in the Office of the CTO team where he worked on Facebook's Katran load balancing technology based on 'extended Berkeley Packet Filters'. He also designed a high-performance L4 proxy server using eBPF to sand box all network traffic of microservices. At Mojo Networks, he was a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the Core Access Point Software Development team where he engineered an event-driven Netlink socket framework to alleviate loss of kernel-space events during burst traffic. Tushar's educational background includes a Master's degree in Computer Networks from North Carolina State University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Pune Institute of Computer Technology. His tech stack includes Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, AWS, Python, and GCP. Tushar is a highly motivated individual with a passion for problem-solving and a strong drive to succeed.