Nikhil Raj

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Finalist in Open Source Global Borathon 2019.
Top 10 in CSR Hackathon, VMware.
Runner up in Code for Good 2017 Hackathon.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and SaaS expert with a focus on distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsJava

Other Skills

ANSIBLEAmazon DynamodbAmazon Web Services (AWS)Android StudioAzure Cosmos DBAzure DevOps ServicesC#Cloud MigrationConcourse CIContainerizationDjangoDjango REST FrameworkHybrid CloudKubernetesLoad Balancing

About

Experienced in building distributed, scalable, and highly available systems. Proficient in cloud workload replication. Hands-on hybrid-cloud native app developer, including work grounds in Microsoft Azure and AWS. Also, a RESTful Microservices developer, worked with Java, C#, Python and TypeScript using Spring, .NET, Django and Angular. I am passionate about building enterprise systems that serves millions. Finalist in Open Source Global Borathon 2019, VMware And in the Top 10 of CSR Hackathon, VMware. Finalist in Smart India Hackathon 2k17 Organised by i4c - Digital India Initiative. For Ministry of Earth Sciences, Chennai. Runner up of Code for Good 2017 Hackathon - Organised by JP Morgan & Chase

Experience

Microsoft

Software Engineer II

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked on configuring and implementing custom traffic aware load balancer for a server cluster in a region.
Worked on Auto Tenant Migration project which detects the high CPU and resource utilizing account in a node using process level CPU usage metrics in a multi-tenant federation and hot migrates to another federation. Culprit Detection with uniform load balancing in a region. Using a custom Load Balancer for node's process level routing.
Worked on developing and deploying multi-tenant federations (server clusters) over multiple availability zones for high availability and tolerance. Using zone redundant load balancers, proximity placement groups (PPGs) and virtual machine scale sets (VMSS).
Part of Microsoft Azure CosmosDB Engineering team named Compute Platform.

Azure Cosmos DBDistributed SystemsCloud MigrationC#Cloud Computing

Vmware

3 roles

Member Of Technical Staff

Promoted

Dec 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Worked on CloudBot which is a tool for analysing and optimising public cloud costs. Set up a CI/CD pipeline for seamless release process. Packaged the application as a Helm Chart for easier management.
Deployed the application on a home grown Kubernetes SaaS platform.
Under Hands-On Labs team. Labs for all VMware products are created by 200+ VMware volunteers, localized into 9 languages, utilized in VMware campaigns, and delivered at global events year-round.
As Member of Technical Staff, in Platform Architecture - VMware Hands-On Labs team (under VES). I have been endowed with the responsibility of developing robust pipelines for delivering as well as managing the entire lifecycle of labs to VMware Hands-On Labs portal. Developed tools to monitor cloud resources and streamlining lab development processes reducing time to market for lab projects.

Information Systems Engineer

Jul 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

I am part of EUS CET team (previously Client Engineering).
Currently working on Synthetic Login to VMware Horizon View --unattended. Which enables users to login to their view pools, without providing the credential every time. The view will be provided from the environment they're in, otherwise from the next nearest one.
Successfully deployed the app - vBroadcast - Conditional Bulk Email Sending Automation. Which works in much more efficient way compared to Mail Merge in MS Outlook. Enables the user to provide the excel files for screening and just choose their respective condition to send email on. (Check out my VMware Social Page for a Demo Pitch video).
Top 10 finalist in the Open Source Global Borathon 2019 (OSPO) for Broadcaster.
I have developed automation process for smoothening the operations. Created vNew Dashboard for showcasing the user adoption in UEM inside Horizon View, using Django and Bootstrap.
Participated in CSR Hackathon in VMware, for developing a web-portal for Dyslexic children to learn employment skills using Bootstrap. Received a certificate from CIO, VMware.

Intern

Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 · 6 mos

I was part of EPS India team. My responsibility included helping colleagues get a better user experience for VMware applications and hardware. I developed numerous applications for automating and improving the operations process.
Developed the Oasis Feedback Application (for Android and eventually Web-app) for getting user feedback on the service they received, the app has people search option (people search API). Tools used: Java, Android Studio.
Developed a desktop application (Windows, MacOS X, Linux) to be run in the background, which fetches the system's OS, current logged in user, serial number etc. This app was for the tracker system of loaner laptops, notifying the system admin whenever the duration for loan is over.