Manish Kumar

Director of Engineering

Apex, North Carolina, United States20 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 16 years of experience in Cloud Engineering and DevOps.
  • Expert in building Big Data platforms from scratch.
  • Proven track record in team leadership and scaling infrastructure.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Engineering and DevOps expert in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud EngineeringInfrastructure Management

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)ApacheApache KafkaApache SparkApache ZooKeeperBig DataCloud DevelopmentConfiguration ManagementContingency PlanningDatabase AdministrationDevOpsDisaster RecoveryDockerElasticSearch

About

Versatile SRE/DevOps Leader with 16 years of experience in Platform Engineering, Application Management (DevOps), Cloud engineering with technical expertise in Cloud and Platform engineering functions. - Significant exposure to building strong small and medium-sized teams from scratch, after working in multiple start-ups and enterprises. - Enabling and leading the team to achieve more than what they think they could. - Leading the teams successfully in implementing best practices and DevOps/SRE culture. - Building Big Data Platform pipeline and infrastructure from scratch in the current organization. - Leading the efforts of migrating services to K8s infrastructure. - Experience in facing problems in scaling the infrastructure from x to 10x. - Hands-on experience in Configuration Management, Orchestration tools, Database Administration, Scripting, Disaster Recovery, and Contingency Planning. - Practitioner of Infrastructure As Code (IaC) & PaaS approach. - Really good troubleshooting skills

Experience

20 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs
Current Experience

Nference

3 roles

Director, Cloud Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2022Present · 4 yrs

Platform as a Service (PAAS)InfrastructureTerraformCloud EngineeringInfrastructure Management

Associate director, SRE

Apr 2021Apr 2022 · 1 yr

Platform as a Service (PAAS)InfrastructureTerraformCloud EngineeringInfrastructure Management

Sr Engineering Manager, SRE

Mar 2020Mar 2021 · 1 yr

Platform as a Service (PAAS)InfrastructureTerraformCloud EngineeringInfrastructure Management

Payo

DevOps Advisor

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Platform as a Service (PAAS)InfrastructureTerraformCloud EngineeringInfrastructure Management

Instart (acquired by akamai)

Sr Manager, DevOps & Cloud Platform Engineering

Jan 2017Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Ø Lifecycle management of hybrid CDN infra distributed ~25 PoPs. Infra contains collocated baremetals and cloud providers.
  • Ø Work closely with Engineering to Ensure deployment of applications to hundreds of edge servers without customer impact
  • Ø Build and maintain Kubernetes based hybrid cloud system for Instart.
  • Ø Managing and setting up Big Data Infrastructure from scratch
  • Ø Large scale metric collection and monitoring of Kubernetes clusters using Prometheus,
  • Thanos and Cortex.
  • Ø Leading and managing the India Cloud platform engineering team and POC for all
  • escalations process during India hours.
  • Ø Lots of documentation to make everyone’s life easier.
InfrastructureTerraformCloud EngineeringInfrastructure Management

Instart

Sr DevOps Engineer

May 2014Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore, India

InfrastructureTerraformCloud EngineeringInfrastructure Management

Intuit

Sr. Software Engineer

Apr 2013May 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Ø Worked as a Scrum master and leading the team with Agile framework.
  • Ø Supporting different tools like Jira, CodeCollaborator, AtlassianSuite, jenkins.
  • Ø Supporting Autolab, a in-house built tool for test automation for mobile and web
  • applications.
  • Ø Writing scripts for automation.

Ixigo.com

Information System Architect

Nov 2011Apr 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon

  • Launched in 2007 from Gurgaon, India, iXigo is a global travel meta-search engine, which searches across 100+ of different travel sites and portals to get the best Flight & Hotel deals. The whole porpose of iXigo is to make travel easier and cheaper for everyone
  • Responsibilities:
  • ➢ Moving the architecture to move stable platform.
  • ➢ Researching new technologies and embedding them into our architecture to make things much more efficient and stable.
  • ➢ Remote administration of RHEL servers.
  • ➢ Backup scheduling and sanity check of backups.
  • ➢ Tracking of crawlers and various web server attacks and taking necessary measures.
  • ➢ Setup and maintenance of Mysql and slaves of online databases.
  • ➢ Monitoring of servers and services.
  • ➢ Providing 24x7 support for various live and office infrastructure issues.

Linkedin

Site Reliability Operations Engineer

Jul 2011Oct 2011 · 3 mos · Bangalore, India

Yahoo!

2 roles

Tech Lead

Apr 2010Jul 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • ➢ Primary point of contact for all runtime issues during India shift.
  • ➢ Remote administration of servers.
  • ➢ Setting up PXE(network) boot, handling various issues regarding that.
  • ➢ Preparing documentation for various issues and daily tasks.
  • ➢ Providing 12x7 support for all the runtime issues.
  • ➢ Trouble shooting and break fixing of broken nodes.
  • ➢ Writing of perl scripts to automate my daily work.

Sr System Engineer

Nov 2007Apr 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Naukri.com

System Administrator

Mar 2006Oct 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • ➢ Remote administration of servers on redhat 9, RHEL 3 and RHEL 4.
  • ➢ Apache administration and security.
  • ➢ Backup scheduling and checking sanity of backup manually as well as with scripts.
  • ➢ Preparing daily reports on web server hits and bandwidth usage (MIS Activities).
  • ➢ Tracking of crawlers and various web server attacks and taking necessary measures..
  • ➢ Setup and maintenance of slaves of online databases.
  • ➢ Performance tuning of servers and application.
  • ➢ Monitoring of servers and services.
  • ➢ Providing 24x7x365 support for various live issues.
  • ➢ Troubleshooting various problems regarding to Sendmail, apache, Mysql etc.
  • ➢ Helping the IT Infrastructure and desktop support team in various problems.

Info edge india ltd

System Administrator

Mar 2006Oct 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos

Jetweb incorporated

System Administrator

Jul 2005Feb 2006 · 7 mos · Delhi Area, India

Education

Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya

B. Tech — Electronics & Communication Engineer

Jan 2001Jan 2005

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