Vikas Mehta — Software Engineer

Experienced Software Engineer with a strong track record in designing and implementing robust solutions across various technology domains. Currently, I'm contributing to Palo Alto Networks. focusing on data extraction from cloud environments and security alerting. My work involves utilizing technologies such as Cassandra, Apache Pinot, Bigtable, Databricks Delta Lake, Apache Spark, AWS Glue, and Airflow. Notable Achievements: Developed a high-performance, distributed benchmarking and baselining tool for handling large volumes of data from IoT devices, processing over 500,000 events per second with Kafka, Apache Spark, and Redis. Created a scalable load generator to assess infrastructure performance by simulating device events in Kafka, Spark, MongoDB, and Kubernetes Pods. Contributed to Palo Alto internal L7 load balancer inspired by nginx. Engineered a custom solution for service discovery and runtime settings management using gRPC, Golang, allowing Kubernetes applications to change settings at runtime. Designed and developed NetApp Cloud Control system for data protection, backing up vast amounts of data from MS Exchange Server, MS SharePoint, Salesforce, and OneDrive using NodeJS, Python, MongoDB, and C# on Azure and AWS. Successfully architected and deployed a comprehensive product in MS Azure, involving Microservices, Virtual Networks, Subnets, Kubernetes, Docker, Load Balancing, Nginx Ingress, Elastic Scaling, Database Replication, Database Sharding, Consul, and Service Discovery. My experience spans various facets of software development and architectural design, making me a valuable asset in complex technical environments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Software Engineer with expertise in cloud infrastructure and data processing.

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States

Experience: 13 yrs 4 mos