Ravi Giroti

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States25 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Infrastructure and Observability Engineering.
  • Led large-scale distributed systems with high query processing.
  • Proven track record in mentoring and team leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on Infrastructure and Distributed Systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Infrastructure EngineeringObservability EngineeringDistributed SystemsInfrastructure ManagementSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Ad Serving Platform DevelopmentAd Serving and Delivery SystemAgile MethodologiesAlerting ExtensionsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsAntApacheArchitectureBusiness AnalyticsCMSCMS DevelopmentCloud ConnectorCloud SoftwareContent Management Systems

About

Specialties: Infrastructure Engineering, Observability Engineering, Distributed Systems, Internet-scale applications, Ad serving systems, Search, Caching, Software Integrations, Technology Strategy/Management, Technical Hiring/Performance Management, Mentoring/Cross-Geographies team building and leadership.

Experience

25 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs
Current Experience

Linkedin

Engineering Leadership (Observability)

Jun 2024Present · 2 yrs · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

  • Responsible for MELT (metrics, events, logs, traces) instrumentation for Observability Engineering at LinkedIn.
  • Evolving a custom observability stack to one based on OpenTelemetry standards.
Observability EngineeringOpenTelemetryMetricsInstrumentationInfrastructure Engineering

Facebook

Engineering Leadership (Distributed Caching, Distributed Consensus)

Nov 2020Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Led the entire production engineering lifecycle for distributed caching solutions across Key-Value and Graph use cases. Managed a company-wide deployment encompassing over hundreds of services, and thousands of use-cases, achieving a query processing scale exceeding 100 billion QPS. Additionally, spearheaded production engineering efforts for the Meta control plane's distributed consensus mechanism, ensuring company-wide reliability, availability, scalability and performance.
Distributed CachingDistributed ConsensusProduction EngineeringReliabilityScalabilityDistributed Systems+1

Appdynamics

3 roles

Sr Director of Software Engineering

May 2018Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Sustaining the business analytics suite (BiQ) which is Appdynamics latest offering around Browser Real User Monitoring, Log and Event Analytics, Synthetic End Use Monitoring, iOT, Android, and iOS instrumentation agents. Founder of a brand new Appdynamics Software Delivery center in Krakow, Poland to address platform hardening and tooling.
Business AnalyticsReal User MonitoringLog AnalyticsEvent AnalyticsSynthetic MonitoringInfrastructure Management+1

Director of Engineering - Infrastructure Monitoring and Alerting Extensions

Promoted

May 2015May 2018 · 3 yrs

  • Delivering state of the art APM software and numerous invaluable platform enhancing artifacts to Java shops around the globe. Responsible for infrastructure monitoring, alerting, and cloud connector product extensions that enable seamless integration of various infrastructural artifacts with the Appdynamics APM platform. Leading complex projects involving collaboration with several technology partners to develop integrations between Appdynamics and other software. Providing technical write-ups and webcasts for developed software to be utilized for marketing and educational purposes. Responsible for scaling up a globally distributed team to meet the needs of a rapidly increasing customer base. Started new teams in Singapore, Bangalore, London, Krakow and Dallas to support a growing worldwide customer base (APAC, EMEA, Americas). Closely involved in leading internal/external projects of varying complexity, technical partnerships, budgeting, roadmap decisions as well as hiring, mentoring, and performance evaluations.
Infrastructure MonitoringAlerting ExtensionsCloud ConnectorTechnical PartnershipsInfrastructure ManagementSoftware Engineering

Sr. Manager - Software Engineering

Nov 2012May 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Created and led a global team of frontline customer facing software engineers with the primary goal of handling field escalations and resolving them satisfactorily while creating a feedback loop to improve overall product quality. Founding member of the systems/infrastructure practice At Appdynamics. Closely involved in the development of game-changing tools to lower MTTD/MTTR including tools to recover from catastrophic failures such as crashed/corrupted databases/split-brain problem, seamless HA set-up for Appdynamics, tooling to support various technical needs for both internal as well as external customers. Responsible for scaling up a globally distributed team to meet the needs of a rapidly increasing customer base. Closely involved in leading projects of varying complexity, streamlining development/support, hiring, mentoring and performance evaluations.
Customer Facing Software EngineeringField EscalationsMTTD/MTTR ToolsInfrastructure ManagementSoftware Engineering

Ebay

Member of Technical Staff 2

Aug 2011Nov 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Jose, CA

  • Took ownership of several mission critical Platform engineering functions. Responsible for design and development of next generation cloud software to replace several legacy software solutions utilized by the entire eBay engineering eco-system (>6K developers worldwide) including but not limited to build & release engineering, performance & site reliability engineering, and PaaS.
Platform EngineeringCloud SoftwareLegacy Software ReplacementInfrastructure ManagementSoftware Engineering

Bizzy

Data Architect

Mar 2011Aug 2011 · 5 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

  • Design and development of REST-ful services to support Bizzy's social platform - social badges, activity streams, connection discovery, Facebook & Twitter integration, and Push notifications for iOS-based devices.
RESTful ServicesSocial Platform DevelopmentIntegrationSoftware Engineering

Nextag

Tech Lead - SEO Team

Jun 2010Mar 2011 · 9 mos · San Mateo, CA

  • Responsible for development of tools for SEO, research/implementation of current SEO trends, monitoring and operational support.
SEO Tools DevelopmentResearchOperational SupportSoftware Engineering

Fox interactive media (ign)

Team Lead - Advertisement Delivery Systems

Mar 2007Jun 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco, CA

  • Responsible for the development of an advanced Internet scale Ad Serving platform using a mix of J2EE and Web technologies. Also responsible for other areas such as content management systems, SEO, application monitoring and web-site performance.
Ad Serving Platform DevelopmentWeb TechnologiesContent Management SystemsSoftware Engineering

Myspace | fox interactive media

Sr. Software Engineer

Mar 2007Jun 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco, CA

  • Design, development, and operational support for an Internet scale ad serving and delivery system. Also responsible for a CMS, publishing, various programmatic initiatives for SEO/SEM, performance monitoring, and infrastructure.
Ad Serving and Delivery SystemCMS DevelopmentPerformance MonitoringSoftware Engineering

Ign entertainment| fox interactive media

Sr.Software Engineer

Jan 2007Jun 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos

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Service Fleet TrackingDashboard DevelopmentData WarehousingSoftware Engineering

Progressive insurance

Sr. Applications Developer

Dec 2003Mar 2007 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Mayfield Village, OH

  • Design and development of J2EE applications.

Sbc

Java Developer Consultant

Jul 2003Dec 2003 · 5 mos · San Ramon, CA

  • Frame relay account data ingestion and reconciliation with various systems. Used a variety of technologies ranging from Struts, MS Excel parsers, PDF parsers, JavaScript, Apache Commons, PL/SQL, etc.
J2EE ApplicationsDesignDevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Verizon

J2EE Consultant

Jan 2003Jan 2003 · 0 mo · Waltham, MA

  • Design and development of enterprise dashboards to report on Verizon's service-fleet tracking-metrics using data streams provided by GPS sensors on all Verizon vehicles. Was involved in custom ETL, data warehousing, server-side, and user interface development using a mix of Oracle PL/SQL, various J2EE components including EJB, JTA, Servlets/JSPs, etc., JavaScript and CSS.
Data IngestionReconciliationJavaScriptSoftware Engineering

Bell and howell publishing systems

2 roles

Software Engineer Intern

Apr 2001Sep 2001 · 5 mos

  • Design and development of a framework to dynamically generate user interfaces and tie them to back-end handlers declaratively using XML. Used JDOM for parsing of XML, the user interfaces generated were loaded as Java Applets, with a servlet and JDBC layers handling the back-end tier.
ReliabilityIntegrated Circuits (IC)Analytical Skills

Software Engineer Intern

Apr 2001Sep 2001 · 5 mos

Integrated Circuits (IC)

The university of akron

Teaching Assistant - Math and Computer Science

Jan 1999Jan 2002 · 3 yrs · Akron, OH

Dashboard DesignData StreamsETL DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Education

The University of Akron

MS — Computer Science

Jan 1999Jan 2002

Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University

B. Tech — Automation - Robotics

Jan 1994Jan 1998

ITMO University

B.Tech. — Automation - Robotics

Jan 1993Jan 1994

St. Joseph's Academy, Dehradun

ISCE — Science

Jan 1979Jan 1991

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