Varshini Muthukrishnan
San Ramon
Summary
Passionate, result-driven coder with a proven ability to drive project success by taking ownership of features and fostering team growth through collaboration. Committed to delivering high-quality code, taking initiative, and leveraging strong coding skills and leadership qualities to enhance overall team performance.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal SET
Veeva Systems
03.2024 - Current
- Took full end-to-end QA Ownership of the Primary Satellite Auth Infra feature including reviewing Impl doc, developing test strategy, verifying all the Dev stories and defects, providing input for test automation, reviewing rollout plans for Prod environment and offering technical support during deployments, all all while adhering to timelines and maintaining high quality.
- Designed and developed Environment Provisioner based Jenkins pipeline from the ground up, enabling the Auth Infra team with the necessary environments for their testing needs.
- Monitored AWS costs incurred by the team on a regular basis and implemented strategies to optimize and reduce expenses.
- Provided ongoing feedback to the development team to enhance provisioning times and optimize AWS resource utilization.
- Performed release readiness testing for multiple releases to ensure smooth and successful authentication upgrades to new releases.
- Automated a few failover runbooks and included JMeter traffic in the automation pipeline.
- Actively participate in MR reviews to scrutinize the automation/pipeline code being checked in.
- Performed various miscellaneous feature testing to decrease the team backlog and improve overall efficiency.
- Train new team members by providing comprehensive technical knowledge and facilitating their ramp-up process.
Senior Staff Engineer
Palo Alto Networks
10.2021 - 03.2024
- Performed end to end development of CloudNGFW Azure Billing in an automation driven model.
- Developed DAG (Dynamic Address Group) feature for CloudNGFW AWS solution.
- Built automation infrastructure in an object oriented fashion for Azure CloudNGFW.
- Automated and manually tested Cloud NGFW features - Firewalls, Rulestacks, Rulelists, security objects (custom URL, prefix objects, FQDNs)
- Worked on multiple cloud models - AWS and Azure
- Performed development related tasks like bringing up the UT coverage for VM-Series plugin code, helped in developing microservices based infrastructure for Rule-usage.
- Lead small group of engineers to adopt the new object oriented infrastructure.
Senior Software Engineer
Nokia Corporation
10.2014 - 10.2021
- Designed and implemented platform and traffic generator independent Express automation framework to validate all the features supported in SR Routers.
- Designed and implemented python extension abstraction libraries for SR and SR-L (Linux) routers.
- Designed and implemented traffic generation framework in python to abstract Ixia, Spirent, SIM-Siren (local SIM based TGEN).
- Extensively did manual and automation testing for MCI (Management Control Interface) config groups.
- Extensively tested (Manual and Automation) QoS & ACL features on VSR.
- Lead small groups of team for various QA activities. .
- Automated performance scripts for Virtual SR (VSR) platform based on various NFV architectures like SR-IOV, VirtIO and PCI pass through.
Software Engineer
Cisco Systems
08.2010 - 09.2014
- Manual and automation testing for networking features like QoS, ACL, MPLS, BGP, etc in Cisco 7600 and ASR9k Routers.
Education
Bachelor's In Engineering - Electronics and Communication Technology
PSG College of Technology
Coimbatore, India06-2010
Skills
- Python, AWS, Azure, Palo Alto Cloud NGFW, YANG, Java, Cucumber, Groovy, CI/CD pipeline, Jenkins, CDK, Terraform, Golang, Networking & Automation, TCP/IP Protocol suite, ACL, QoS, Policy Based Routing, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, Traffic Engineering, IPoDWDM optics, SDN, NFV, Firewall, Cloud Security
Timeline
Principal SET
Veeva Systems
03.2024 - Current
Senior Staff Engineer
Palo Alto Networks
10.2021 - 03.2024
Senior Software Engineer
Nokia Corporation
10.2014 - 10.2021
Software Engineer
Cisco Systems
08.2010 - 09.2014
Bachelor's In Engineering - Electronics and Communication Technology
PSG College of Technology
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