Dec 2021 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Hybrid

• ● Bootstrapped Reliability engineering charter under the umbrella of Reliability and
• Productivity engineering.
• ● Leading the charter for Site Reliability and Resilience Engineering Org to solve reliability
• complex problems systematically by inculcating them into SDLC at Flipkart scale.
• ● Brought Hiring efficiency by establishing right hiring processing including targeting,
• candidate briefing, interview & evaluation scripts etc.
• ● Evengalised reliability mindsets with 3Ps (People, Product & Process) to attain service and
• platform reliability for better customer’s experience.
• ● Brought efficiency to Incident Management by templatising and auto creating RCA after
• any Incident with autofilling field mapped with Jira tags to reduce toil for IM and Devs.
• ● Build service catalog for providing self managed Stateful workload deployed on VMs.
• ● Successfully drive the Service Tiering program with SLO approach .
• ● Ideate and conceptualize the Service Registry and Reliability Scorecard

Sep 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · India

• Derived and institutionalized operational and engineering excellence in my BU
• through right KPIs.
• ● Responsible for managing a centralized data platform for Ingestion, computation
• and Extractions.
• ● Owns the Reliability, Productivity, Stability, Operability & scalability charter to
• achieve four 9s uptime for all centralized BigData services and platforms.
• ● Accountability for Incident Management (24x7 availability management), Change
• Management and operational excellence.
• ● Hired Lateral and NSG talent and nurture them as best in the class.
• ● Inculcate practice to embedded Reliability, Scalability, Uptime, Security,
• Self-Service in all the solutions and platforms we build under the hood of the
• Data platform.
• ● Brought right cost efficiency by implementing AutoScaling, right sizing,
• minimizing infra wastage and adopting latest generation infra.

Dec 2017 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Database
• Bootstrapping Database team from scratch.
• Managing & mentoring database team.
• Derived and implemented best practice process for Schema/Database design review.
• Educating Dev team for DB optimization best practice.
• Guiding team for working towards state of art monitoring infrastructure for all DBs.
• Standardized DB instance parameters for optimal performance.
• Automated Database Deployment.
• DB access as API.
• Consultation to all Dev team towards best and optimal data-store solution available as per use case.
• Working with Sysops/DevOps, Infra security and compliance towards best practice for infra & security from DB standpoint.
• BigData Platform
• o Leading effort for designing Data Platform and Data solutions, working towards unified data solutions using BigData technologies like Kafka, Spark, Presto, Hive, EMR and so on.
• o Ingestion pipeline using open source technology debezium and Kafka and working towards
• o Design solution based on geographical data locality.
• o Data metadata, discovery and access control layer on top of data and database layer. o Data security, protection and privacy.
• o Catering all Data requirement for business available through heterogeneous resources.

Oct 2014 – Nov 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Data Ingestion Pipeline : Experience in design and implementation of Data ingestion pipelines. Currently performing the Proof Of Concepts for Oracle BigData Adapter for Kafka.
• DataCenter BuildOuts : Bootstrapped Oracle databases 500T in cumulative in size. Storage capacity planning, Automation towards buildout process.
• Development Life Cycle : Well versed with the latest technology and trends in the database arena with strong knowledge in all the aspects of SDLC life cycle.
• High Availability Solution: Designing and implementation experience for Active-Active data replication using ORACLE Golden Gate for Oracle and Mysql. We are managing 4 active sites with Oracle GoldenGate and all have live write traffic.
• Design Review : Being part of BDF (Bangalore Design Forum) & DMRC (Data Modelling Review Committee) @LinkedIn bangalore involved in application design evaluation and suggest best practice.
• Part of SIG (SRE Innovation Group) working on exploring best new innovative ideas and successful implementation. About to complete first project under this umbrella.
• Application Support : Code Review & Deployment, Application Ramp-up, application troubleshooting in DB perspective like latency, no response etc.
• NoSql and Big Data Concepts : Knowledge of NoSQL datastores (Couchbase and ElasticSearch), Hadoop, Hive, PIG
• RDBMS : Oracle, MySQL, Teradata, MS-SQL
• NoSql DataStore : Couchbase, Elastic-Search
• Programing : Python, SQL, PL/SQL, Bash Scripting
• Data Replication : GoldenGate, Kafka, Databus, Lumos/FastReader
• BigData : Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Azkaban

Jan 2012 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Providing 12*7 support to all mission critical databases (Oracle, Teradata and My-Sql).
• Automation using Shell Scripting.
• Infrastructure project like Capacity Planning, Datacenter Migrations.

Jun 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

• 1) As a BDE Engineer working as single point of contact between Oracle Support and Development teams on Bugs and other solutions.
• 2) BDE Engineer is responsible for ensuring a high level of Bug quality. We are reviewing, screening and validating all Bugs.
• Identify and minimize duplicate and false bugs by testing and implementation.
• 3) Providing support to Oracle support for customer's escalated production issues.
• 4) Designing of processes and procedures that ensure that all Bugs are fully documented and well formed prior to their assignment to Development.
• 5) Working as a subject matter expert providing solution for complex issues or identify acceptable workarounds.
• 6) Working on bug screening of all the different areas of Oracle database like RAC, ASM, Performance, Optimizer, RMAN etc.

Mar 2008 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• 1) Providing 12*7 on-call supports for all 250 critical production instances.
• 2) Designing and creating the databases as per application team requirement.
• 3) Design; implement, maintaining 10g data guard solution with Fast Start Failover (FSF).
• 4) Upgrading oracle database to higher version as per Oracle's recommendations and company standards.
• 5) Actively working on databases upgrade from 10g to 11g.
• 6) Working on design solution on Oracle 11g Active Data Guard (ADG).
• 7) Monitoring wait events, Locks upon the database objects and long operations running upon the database to improve the performance of the database by taking the necessary actions.
• 8) Tuning the database and SQL to increase the response throughput.
• 9) Backup and recovery of database using RMAN.
• 10) Migrating database from one host to another host by using RMAN or OS utility.
• 11) Done the upgrades of databases from 32bit Linux to 64 bit Linux.
• 12) Implementing new technologies or features as per business requirement and company standards.

Apr 2005 – Mar 2008 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Started career in IT from TCS and worked as an Oracle Database Administrator.
• Performing below responsibility as an Oracle DBA:-
• 1) Managing 70 critical production database instances and Applications on 24*7 basis.
• 2) Oracle 8i/9i/10g Database, Oracle 10gR2 RAC with ASM and Oracle 10g Application server Administration.
• 3) Designing and creating the databases on different platforms.
• 4) Installation and Configuration of Oracle databases 8i/9i/10g.
• 5) Upgrading oracle database to higher version as per Oracle's recommendations.
• 6) Worked on Disaster Recovery solution like DR Center Setup, physical standbys.
• 7) Tuning the database and SQL to increase the response throughput.
• 8) Reorganizing the database objects by archiving the data and moving the tables within the tablespace, rebuilding the indexes.
• 9) Archival and Restoration of data as per business requirement.
• 10) Worked on OS/Shell scripting to check database Health
• 11) Used Transportable tablespace (TTS) and Exchange Partition concept for data archiving.
• 12) Implementation of Security features as recommended by Oracle and the Client’s Security policy.