Badri Natarajan

Badri Natarajan is an experienced engineering professional currently working at Palo Alto Networks since April 2023. Previously, Badri served as a Founding Engineer at Zycada from September 2017 to March 2023, where responsibilities included architecture, design, and development of solutions for the e-commerce sector. Badri also held the position of Solution Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise from January 2016 to August 2017, leading the design and architecture of VNF onboarding under the OpenNFV Partner Program. Prior experience includes working as a Senior Software Development Engineer at Fujitsu Network Communications from November 2007 to December 2015, managing offshore teams to deliver high-value Carrier Ethernet solutions, and as a Software Engineer at TechMahindra from October 2004 to October 2007. Badri holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington.