Anirudh Panchangam

Fortinet - Software Developer 3

• Assumed more responsibility on the FortiSwitch Cloud side of developement as well as operations.
• Reduced our total pod count by 5%(~12 in number) thereby saving cost to the company in terms of resources consumed.
• Implemented several features that involved multi process architecture with workers listening on message queues
• Improved several of our APIs response times by almost 100% by optimizing our MongoDB data structure and indexes.
• Involved in coming up with documentation for our Service Operating Procedures which requires intimate knowledge of the existing arch.
• Fixed several race condition bugs in our application.
• Was involved in stabilizing our Elasticsearch cluster which kept going down for several reasons.
• Currently involved in architecting and implementing a Disaster Recovery Plan for our application.
• Guided our QA and DevOps teams in bringing up multiple clusters of our services.
• Have been heavily involved in mitigating migration issues during upgrades

Fortinet - Software Developer 2

• I work on FortiLANCloud as a backend/frontend developer.
• Involved in integrating erstwhile FortiSwitchCloud into FortiAPCloud to turn it into FortiLANCloud
• Hands-on experience in running and maintaining our Kubernetes cluster which runs our Django Application which is in-turn hosted on a self managed Openstack server.
• Implemented Redis Caching in several places where necessary to improve load times of our APIs
• Worked on Angular using NeutrinoNeutrino (Fortinet's internal meta framework).
• Implemented and extended several features(zero touch config, configuration profiles, Licensing features, etc) including coming up with feature documentation and test plan working along with QA.
• Worked extensively on our Zero Touch Configuration Feature which applies configurations to switches during first boot up.

Cambium Networks - Software Engineer

• Worked on cnMaestro as a backend developer.
• Worked with websockets to implement real time network debugging(ping, traceroute) tools for our on premises offering that could be accessed from the GUI.
• Was involved in debugging and fixing Memory Issues with our NodeJS backend.
• Dockerized our dev setups
• Was heavily involved in the process of implementing the CBRS feature offering that cnMaestro provided.
• Implemented an RPC service from scratch using AWS SQS to keep costs low and avoid another auth mechanism for internal RPCs.
• Implemented various API endpoints that utilized these RPCs.
• Improved our CBRS tool's efficiency to simulate 20k devices from one single on-premises instance.
• Was heavily involved in integrating Zuora with our CBRS offering.
• Integrated Zuora's payment gateway into cnMaestro.
• Was also involved in designing the billing cycle and plans for offloading customers who wouldn't complete their monthly billing as we billed in arrears.
• Integrated AWS SNS into our system to handle notifications from Zuora's callout endpoints.

Cambium Networks - SDE Intern

• Converted entire cnMaestro codebase from Python 2 to Python 3
• Created a service that would render Graphical Reports from data stored in our Network Management Software, cnMaestro
• Used Pandas, RabbitMQ, MultiThreading to achieve the deliverables for the Graphical Reports Feature