Gunjan Patel
Director Of Engineering, Office Of The CPO at Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolGunjan Patel is a Director of Engineering in Cloud Architecture based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building cloud-native networking and security platforms. At Palo Alto Networks he progressed through technical leadership roles shaping container, Kubernetes, and cloud security architecture while leading teams that deliver production-grade systems. A longtime core contributor to Project Calico, he has hands-on expertise in Go, CNI, IPAM and tooling—improving diagnostics and IP management for a widely used cloud networking project. He blends deep lower-level networking and DevOps experience from Cisco and Ciena with applied Generative AI interests for enterprise cybersecurity, making him comfortable at the intersection of research, product, and operations. Outside product work he serves on the board of a regional university, reflecting a commitment to technical education and community.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering at San Francisco Bay UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
docker10
api-design10
testing10
ip10
cni10
bash10
networking10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
cli10
calico10
iptables9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/libcalico-go
Aug 2016 - May 2018
Golang Calico library functions: https://www.projectcalico.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 152 commits, 151 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Gunjan contributed to fixing error messages, improving code structure, and addressing issues within the `libcalico-go` repository. Their commits focused on enhancing the rule and policy management features, which involved modifying API formats and data structures, as well as working on IP address management (IPAM) functionality. They also worked on adding support for IPAM functionality including assigning and releasing of IP addresses, with tests to ensure the correct implementation.
golang
projectcalico/cni-plugin
Nov 2016 - Nov 2017
Calico CNI plugin
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 62 commits, 69 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Gunjan's contributions primarily involve modifications to the Calico CNI plugin's core functionality. They added a version flag to the calico-ipam component and removed an unknown argument ignore function. Furthermore, they refactored import paths within the codebase. Their work also includes bug fixes related to IP address cleanup in host-local IPAM and the implementation of features supporting IP address assignment through annotations, including annotation-based IP pool selection and bypassing IPAM for direct IP assignment.
calicocni
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