Aug 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Scale and maintain the streaming infrastructure of LinkedIn.
• Ensure one of the world's largest Kafka deployments is up and running.
• Lead the initiative to automate the OS update Lifecycle for the Kafka Ecosystem.
• Mentored new hires in coming up to speed and getting familiar with the LinkedIn application stack.
• Worked on initiatives for spare health & capacity management.

Oct 2018 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Led the team in handling all major operational issues and incidents and driving them to resolution.
• Worked on redesigning & revamping the Incident Management process at LinkedIn.
• Worked on projects to streamline the process, and to better optimize the efficiency of the team.
• Played a part in hiring and building the team & mentoring new hires.
• Worked with my Manager to discuss, decide, and take steps to achieve short-term as well as long terms goals for the team.

Nov 2016 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Worked with the team in handling all major operational issues and incidents.
• Worked on projects to streamline the process, and to better optimize the efficiency of the team.
• Building scalable web applications using technologies like Python, Jinja, HTML, and JS to automate/streamline the team
• processes & workflow.
• Handling applications & deployments contribute to the scaling of the app stack to multiple data centers.
• Drive daily stand-up meetings discussing critical production issues & assist the teams in taking appropriate actions to
• resolve them.

Jul 2016 – Oct 2016 · 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Part of a new DevOps Team working towards Automating and optimizing existing workflows.
• Implementing Tools/Services/ to fix and automate common repetitive issues.
• Wrote custom Ansible playbooks for managing the full application stack.
• Proof of concept & Implementation of Consul for Service Discovery & Key/Value Management.
• Setting up Monitoring Solutions using tools like Nagios/ Icinga, InfluxDB, and Grafana.

Aug 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Managing products using Linux and Linux application stacks. Automation and implementation of
• permanent resolutions to prevent outages/ downtimes.
• Configuring, monitoring, and ensuring the integrity, and consistency of regular backups.
• Handle incident response, troubleshooting, fix & escalations for various products/services.
• Monitor the stability of Infrastructure.