Half engineer, half people person — fully curious.

I started out as a backend engineer, getting my hands dirty with distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and the kind of technical problems that demand real precision.

That journey led me to Portkey, where as a Forward Deployed Engineer I stepped into a different kind of challenge — sitting across from enterprise customers, learning how their businesses actually work, and becoming the person who could translate real-world problems into engineering solutions that stuck.

Now at Palo Alto Networks, I work as a Technical Marketing Engineer on Prisma AIRS — at the intersection of AI, security, and enterprise adoption. It's fast-moving, demanding, and exactly the kind of work that keeps me genuinely excited to show up every day.

Outside of work, you'll find me on a basketball or a badminton court burning energy, or out on the highway on a long bike ride — the kind where you pick a direction and just go.

Krishna Chandra