Palo Alto Networks
Visvanathan Thothathri is a Senior Staff Engineer at Palo Alto Networks since October 2023, previously holding the position of Senior Software Engineer 2 at Zscaler from May 2017 to November 2023. At Zscaler, Visvanathan led a team of developers to enhance the cloud sandbox product, achieving a 100% year-over-year revenue increase, and integrated a lightgbm machine learning model to optimize file quarantine processes. Earlier roles included contributions as a software engineer at Texas A&M University, where Visvanathan developed a malicious Facebook page identification tool, and as a graduate intern at Rackspace, working with the ELK stack. Visvanathan holds a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli.