Kaushik Pidugu

Kaushik Pidugu is a Senior Staff Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, focusing on the Prisma Cloud Access endpoint agent since January 2022. Prior to this role, Pidugu served as a Software Engineer - III at Cisco in the Next Generation Firewall Group from November 2018 to November 2021, and as a Software Engineer - II in the Adaptive Security Appliance Group from January 2016 to September 2018, where contributions included developing features for CGNAT port interim logging and improving IPv6 support for Cisco ASA devices. Earlier experience includes an internship at OPSWAT, where involvement centered on network scanner module development, and positions at UMKC and HCL Technologies that included lab assistance and software development for Cisco routers. Pidugu holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Computers Engineering from Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering.