Vishnuchander Thirugnanam

Vishnuchander Thirugnanam is an experienced Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks since April 2022, focusing on product excellence within the Prisma SASE Test Team through testing and collaboration. Prior to this role, Vishnuchander was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware from September 2019 to April 2022, contributing significantly to the NSX-System Testing Team by designing virtualized test topologies and comprehensive system-wide test plans for various SDN features. Vishnuchander's earlier career includes a position as a Staff Engineer at Nokia from May 2011 to August 2019, where extensive work was done on service routers and virtualized service routers, as well as experience as a Lead Engineer at HCL Technologies and a Network Control Engineer at Sify Technologies Limited. Vishnuchander holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from Anna University Chennai, completed between 2001 and 2005.