Vaibhav Nagar
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Layer7 Security at Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVaibhav Nagar is a Senior Staff Software Engineer specializing in Layer7 security with nine years of experience building scalable, secure systems across networking and cloud domains. An IIT Kanpur alum with an MS in Cybersecurity from Georgia Tech (4.0 GPA), he blends strong software engineering foundations from Adobe with focused threat intelligence and applied cryptography work during his graduate studies and roles at A10 and VMware. He has a track record of designing microservices and data pipelines for ML-driven products and has taught applied cryptography and information security, demonstrating both practical and pedagogical depth. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he currently drives Layer7 security initiatives at Palo Alto Networks, translating research-grade security concepts into production-ready protections. Known for curiosity and technical rigor, he often bridges software engineering, threat intelligence, and cryptography to harden systems end-to-end.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity (Computer Science), 4.0/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity (Computer Science), 4.0/4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur
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Github Skills (12)
unsupervised-learning10
convolutional-neural-networks10
backtesting-trading-strategies10
toolbox10
generative-adversarial-network10
classification10
trading9
time-series9
computer-vision9
machine-learning8
pytorch8
backtesting8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vaibhavnaagar/cpp_compiler
Feb 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
vaibhavnaagar/vaibhavn
Dec 2017 - Sep 2025
Contributions:27 pushes in 7 years 10 months
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