Sumit Pandey

About Sumit Pandey

Engineering Lead with 20+ years of experience in high-scale distributed systems and…

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Cisco

   Jun 2013 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Architected an AI-assisted testing framework, shifting from reactive debugging to constraint-driven, system-level validation. By letting engineers define architectural patterns and AI enforce them, we cut code maintenance by 60%, accelerated test development 5×, and achieved truly predictable, preemptive debugging across CI/CD pipelines.Led the cloud transition for Cisco\'s Secure Firewall licensing to a \"Bring Your Own License\"(BYOL) model. This project required architecting and delivering high-availability, export compliance and air-gapped licensing solutions across all virtual and physical firewall models and feature licenses.Led an team to execute a multi-year automation and infrastructure roadmap for delivering CI/CD-integrated frameworks that improved regression speed by 95% and boosted QA productivity and developer velocity through shift-left testing and process optimization.Engineered comprehensive, automated endpoint checks (BOLA, BFLA, rate limits) to achieve zero sensitive data exposure incidents across all product releases, significantly enhancing system security and reliability.Architected and deployed high-scale API observability dashboards and a performance benchmarking tool designed for advanced failure detection and correlation analysis across REST API and application logs. This capability, further developed into Troubleshoot Analysis, delivered an improvement in system scalability and a 30% boost in execution performance.Enabled organizational maturity in intelligent automation within the SBG Firewall group by mentoring engineers and leading team-wide sessions on advanced AI/ML, Agentic AI, and RAG concepts

Education

• Liverpool John Moores University

  Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

  2018 — 2020

• International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

  Post Graduate Diploma, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

  2018 — 2019

• Bhagalpur College of Engineering

  B. Tech., Computer Science

  2001 — 2005

• Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

  PG Level Advanced Certification Programme in Computational Data Science

Skills

• Perl
• Python
• Oracle
• Linux
• Cisco Technologies
• Integration
• Agile Methodologies
• Cisco Systems Products