Vaishnavi Venkateswaran

Spearheaded end-to-end development, testing, automation, and deployment of multi-cloud security features for Prisma SASE (Secure Access Service Edge), focusing on scalable network security, automated regression validation, and production reliability across AWS, GCP, and OCI. Led the architecture and implementation of Customer-Owned IP Prefixes (BYOIP) and Context-Aware IP Address Management (CIAM), enabling dynamic enforcement of Geo-Location and region based policies through integrations with SaaS-Agent, SaaS-Infra, and Orchestrator services across multi-cloud firewall environments. Built intelligent observability and diagnostics AI agent for CIAM microservices using Claude, Vertex AI, and MCP servers, automating Grafana and Prisma Access VM log analysis, proactive JIRA ticket generation, and intelligent codebase diagnostics across Prod and QA clusters, saving 50+ engineering hours weekly.

Staff Software Engineer - PALO ALTO NETWORKS - Santa Clara, USA

(2025-10)

• Spearheaded end-to-end development, testing, automation, and deployment of multi-cloud security features for Prisma SASE (Secure Access Service Edge), focusing on scalable network security, automated regression validation, and production reliability across AWS, GCP, and OCI.
• Led the architecture and implementation of Customer-Owned IP Prefixes (BYOIP) and Context-Aware IP Address Management (CIAM), enabling dynamic enforcement of Geo-Location and region based policies through integrations with SaaS-Agent, SaaS-Infra, and Orchestrator services across multi-cloud firewall environments.
• Built intelligent observability and diagnostics AI agent for CIAM microservices using Claude, Vertex AI, and MCP servers, automating Grafana and Prisma Access VM log analysis, proactive JIRA ticket generation, and intelligent codebase diagnostics across Prod and QA clusters, saving 50+ engineering hours weekly.
• Engineered and validated large-scale multi-cloud networking and traffic management solutions, including IPSec tunnels, NAT policies, Route 53 verifications, nodes behind NLB routing rules, and iBGP/eBGP routing logic, ensuring resilient traffic steering, optimized data-plane behavior, and correct IP rule enforcement across globally distributed nodes.
• Enhanced platform stability, deployment reliability, and operational integrity by building robust Agentic automation and backend consistency validation pipelines for features across Google Spanner, RDS, and BigQuery, integrating Terraform and AWS Step Functions-based deployment workflows, reducing customer-facing DITs by 90%.
• Improved product security and engineering efficiency by resolving Mythos-detected vulnerabilities, strengthening CI/CD workflows using GitLab and Jenkins, and validating REST APIs and Terraform infrastructure deployments across multi-cloud environments.

Software Research Intern - NYU

(2025-03 - 2025-09)

• Built GO based backend services with BadgerDB, LSM-trees, gRPC, and concurrent data-structures to enable lock-free, parallel transaction execution and scalable state machine replication.

Member of Technical Staff (MTS) - ORACLE - Bengaluru, India

(2021-07 - 2023-12)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - ORACLE - Bengaluru, India

(2021-07 - 2023-12)

• Engineered comprehensive UI automation for over 15 features within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) UI, focusing on Autonomous Databases to enhance testing accuracy and efficiency.
• Optimized CI/CD Pipeline: Leveraged Docker, Oracle Kubernetes Engine and Terraform for automated streamlined deployment, adhering to Agile practices.
• Reduced manual intervention by 15 hrs/week during biweekly on-call with Java, Jenkins, Selenium, TestNG, PL/SQL, Perl Scripts, Grafana, Git.
• Created 40+ RESTful APIs to validate functionality between UI and control plane using Postman and Curl.
• Spearheaded migration initiatives for Oracle MultiCloud Solutions, integrating frameworks with Azure, GCP, AWS
• Spearheaded Voluntary Product Accessibility Testing for OCI UI, ensuring compliance with WCAG standards.

Oracle Machine Learning - Security - ORACLE - Bengaluru, India

(2023-01 - 2023-12)

• Developed and implemented 30+ security regression tests for Oracle Machine Learning (OML), focusing on critical vulnerabilities like SQL injection and resource injection, achieving a 40% reduction in security risks.

Software Developer - STELIOS (Startup)

(2020-07 - 2021-06)

• Developed a full stack cloud native web application with scalable RESTful backend services for real time product mapping, deployed on AWS for 99% uptime and high availability.

Software Development Intern - FIDELITY INVESTMENTS

(2020-05 - 2020-07)

• Created a client message prioritization tool for the Advisor Analytics website using NLP, NLTK, React, JavaScript to classify client messages into 5 categories.

Master of Science - Computer Science - New York University (NYU), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (2024-01 - 2025-05)

Bachelor of Technology - Instrumentation and Control Engineering - National Institute of Technology - Trichy (NIT - Trichy) (2017-06 - 2021-05)