Prasanth R
About Prasanth R
Prasanth R is a Staff SDET Engineer at Trellix, where he has worked since 2022. He has extensive experience in software quality assurance and DevOps, having held various engineering roles at notable companies including FireEye and Symantec.
Work at Trellix
Currently, Prasanth R serves as a Staff SDET Engineer at Trellix, a position he has held since 2022 in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. In this role, he leads test automation efforts for the Trellix Helix Security Platform and Trellix XDR. His responsibilities include transforming these platforms into fully automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CICD) pipelines. Prasanth also acts as a gatekeeper for Email Security.Cloud releases, ensuring the quality and reliability of the software.
Previous Experience
Before his current role at Trellix, Prasanth R worked as a Senior SQA Engineer at Trellix for a brief period in 2022. He also has significant experience from his tenure at FireEye, Inc., where he served as a Senior SQA Engineer from 2020 to 2022. His earlier roles include a position as a System Engineer at IBM from 2010 to 2014 and various engineering roles at Symantec from 2014 to 2020, where he progressed from SQA Engineer to Senior SQA Engineer.
Education and Expertise
Prasanth R completed his B.Tech in Applied Electronics at the College of Engineering Trivandrum from 2006 to 2010. Prior to that, he achieved Higher Secondary education in Science and Maths at St Antony's Public School, Anakkal, from 2004 to 2006. His expertise spans across software quality assurance, test automation, and DevOps, with a focus on infrastructure design using tools like Terraform and Helm. He is also well-versed in deployment models using Ansible.
Key Projects and Contributions
Prasanth R played a key role in migrating Symantec's Email Security Gateway from on-premises infrastructure to AWS cloud. He developed the automation framework structure from scratch for Symantec's Quarantine System, showcasing his capability in building efficient testing frameworks. His current work at Trellix involves optimizing AWS resources for cost efficiency and enhancing the overall infrastructure.