// Staff Software Engineer · Backend, Cloud & Security Platforms
Prithvipal Singh
13+ years building distributed backend systems for DNS security, cloud and healthcare platforms — and writing about Go along the way.
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Who I am
Staff Software Engineer with 13+ years building and leading backend and distributed systems across DNS security, cybersecurity, hybrid cloud and healthcare. I work mainly in Go, Java, Linux, Docker and Kubernetes, and have spent the last 5+ years leading architecture, design and delivery for multi-tenant, multi-cloud SaaS platforms — currently Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) and DNS security. I'm also the author of "Hands-On Go Programming" (BPB Publications) and an active contributor to the Go and open source community.
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// books/
Books
authored/
Hands-On Go Programming
BPB Publications · Feb 2021
Gets readers productive in Go quickly, covering the language fundamentals as well as its more advanced features.
reviewed/
Golang for Jobseekers
BPB Publications · Jun 2023 · Technical Reviewer
A comprehensive introduction to Go covering syntax, fundamentals, industry best practices and architectural patterns for scalable, secure and maintainable applications.
// open-source/
Open source contributions
// achievements/
Achievements
2nd Place — Vista Equity Partners Agentic AI Hackathon India
Vista Equity Partners × Infoblox · Bangalore · Aug 7, 2026
Built a multi-agent security system that traces blast radius, scores reachability, and proposes simulated containment on a live network asset knowledge graph — with teammates Akshay Kumar, Manish and Shreeharsha, competing against 35 teams in 24 hours.
Learn more“Bus ek SMS makes public transport a lot easier”
Times Group, Pune — press coverage · 2012
Feature on the PMPML SMS-based bus route/timing lookup service built by the CMD Solutions team (Nidhi Goyal, Gurupreet Mukhraiyaa, Prithvipal Singh, Sumit Dagariya, Amol Rajput, Ajay Shrivastava).
Learn more“One vehicle can make collective fuel loss quite heavy”
Times Group, Pune — press coverage · 2012
Feature on the CMD Solutions team's study quantifying collective fuel loss from traffic delay caused by adding a single vehicle to busy city routes.
// career.log
Career history
Aug 2021 — Present
Staff Software Engineer · Infoblox · Bangalore, India
Leading backend engineering for DNS security and threat-exposure management platforms.
- ▸CTEM (Apr 2025 — Present): architect, lead and hands-on developer for integrating Axur with Infoblox's External Attack Surface Management (EASM) platform — took it from a blank slate to a released capability in 6 months, owning service design, API contracts, data model and Kubernetes deployment.
- ▸DNS Security / B1TDC (Aug 2021 — Present): built and maintain the policy path — customer-authored policies are compiled and enforced via XCMAL — across multi-tenant Golang microservices deployed on Docker and Kubernetes, covering policy management, enforcement and reporting at cloud scale.
- ▸On-call for the DNS security service — triaging and resolving production incidents and feeding fixes back into the product.
Feb 2017 — Aug 2021
Lead Software Engineer · GS Lab · Pune, India
Led delivery of a hybrid multi-cloud management platform and an OpenStack-based cloud orchestrator.
- ▸Cloud Broker (2017 — 2020): led a team of 12+ developers and QA engineers building a hybrid cloud platform spanning AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM Cloud and Alibaba Cloud; delivered the CAM, Consume, Planning and Insights modules as Golang/Python/Node.js microservices with an Angular front end.
- ▸ICO — OpenStack Cloud Orchestrator (2017): developer and support engineer on an OpenStack-based orchestration product, handling production issues with direct customer interaction.
Aug 2016 — Feb 2017
Project Associate · Cognizant · India
Enterprise application development and support on a Java-based stack.
Mar 2013 — Jul 2016
Senior Software Engineer · Persistent Systems · Pune, India
Java developer on genomics and systems-integration platforms, including a contract engagement via VLS Consulting.
- ▸Reporter Dx — Human Genome Analysis (2013 — 2016): built core services with Spring and Hibernate over a relational data model for a genomics platform that processes human DNA to detect cancer and genetic disease.
- ▸DHAP — Integration Platform (2013, via VLS Consulting): contributed to a platform integrating a client's applications into a single system.
education/
MCA · University of Pune
2009 — 2012
BCA · MLSU, Udaipur
2006 — 2009
HSC · RBSE, Ajmer
2006
SSC · RBSE, Ajmer
2004
// learn/
Courses & writing
// contact.sh
Let's talk
Open to collaborations, speaking invites, sessions at colleges, and interesting engineering problems. I'm not in it for the money — I genuinely love this work and giving back to the community. Email is the fastest way to reach me.