Sunny Kumar

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 11 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in building large-scale distributed systems.
Proven track record in cloud architecture and microservices.
Strong technical mentorship and leadership skills.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in SaaS and cloud-based solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ArchitectureDistributed SystemsApi/sdk DesignMicroservices

Other Skills

GoTerraformGraphDBWebSocketAI-driven troubleshootingGCPBigQueryPrometheusGrafanaELKS3PythonREST APICloud ComputingUbuntu

About

Experience

12 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

6 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Palo alto networks

2 roles

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

Led Phase-1 delivery of CloudBlade and evolved it into a high-concurrency SASE provisioning engine, scaling to thousands of firewall rules with sub-millisecond latency using Go, Terraform, and GraphDB.
Eliminated 90% of access-delay support escalations by replacing legacy SSH jump hosts with a 1-click high-performance WebSocket-based automation layer, now powering AI-driven troubleshooting workflows.
Architected an always-on statistics platform with automated recovery for devices offline up to 3 days and hourly S3 state synchronisation, delivering 99.9% data availability; later migrated the system to GCP with BigQuery-backed analytics to improve customer visibility.
Owned and evolved the Prisma SASE Python SDK, improving documentation and simplifying REST API integrations, reducing partner onboarding time from weeks to days; widely adopted by partners.
Built/optimized core services (DNS, IoT/Device mapping, VPN, Interface, Topology) supporting thousands of enterprise network devices.
Led architecture, performance engineering, and technical mentorship, while owning SLOs and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.

GoTerraformGraphDBWebSocketAI-driven troubleshootingGCP+6

Senior Staff Engineer Software

Apr 2020 – Nov 2023 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Senior Developer owning the complete lifecycle of assigned product features, from concept to live production. Actively involved in design, development, and testing, collaborating with diverse stakeholders. Contributes to team growth through technical mentorship and quality improvement initiatives.

Cloud ComputingMicroservicesUbuntuAnsiblePythonAWS Lambda+12

Cloudgenix (acquired by palo alto networks)

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

As a Senior Software Engineer, developed robust web and WebSocket applications. I consistently deliver successful projects through strategic cloud service integration and a collaborative approach within an Agile development framework. My expertise lies in solving complex technical challenges and driving innovation.

Cloud ComputingMicroservicesFlaskLinuxCode ReviewAmazon Web Services (AWS)+6

Sap

Developer

Nov 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

As a developer, significant work through the different phases of software development life cycle, acquired knowledge of systems analysis and design methodologies, data modelling along with several contributions to various applications including distributed, web, micro-services and cloud based applications, most of the time in a cross-platform environment using RAML, Spring, RESTful webservices,cloud foundry and SAP UI5.

Unit Testing

Tricon infotech pvt ltd

Software Engineer

Dec 2015 – Nov 2016 · 11 mos · Bangalore

Implemented new functionalities of online analytics platform based on machine learning using Apache samoa, storm, kafka, MongoDB, Springboot that support changing business requirements.
Helped Architects and Product Owner to achieve iteration objectives by quickly trying new ideas and provided support to peers as per need.

Brainybatch

Software Engineer

Feb 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Responsible for design and development of digital one stop destination for all education needs starting with education/study loan to browsing, selecting and applying for play-schools, schools and colleges from across the country with reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.
Identified and successfully produced high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration with software stack involving Linux (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux), MongoDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch, and Java.