Balu George

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led deployment automation for Amagi Analytics 2.0.
  • Automated OpenShift deployment under Nutanix platform.
  • Designed and deployed Microservices Infrastructure with Terraform.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure Engineer with extensive experience in cloud automation and microservices.

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Skills

Core Skills

Infrastructure As Code (iac)Google Cloud Platform (gcp)Amazon Web Services (aws)

Other Skills

AirflowAmazon EKSAnsibleApache KafkaApache MesosApache ZooKeeperBashCapistranoContainerizationDockerElasticSearchFluentDGitGitOpsGo (Programming Language)

Experience

Kong inc.

Staff Engineer

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Amagi corporation

Lead Engineer

Jan 2023Aug 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Designed the infra for Amagi Analytics 2.0 and led the team on end to end deployment automation
  • ‣ Developed IaC(terraform), Helm charts, CICD(Github Actions and ArgoCD), monitoring(Prometheus and Grafana), alerting(Pagerduty and Slack) and ensured a stable product release
  • ‣ Created event driven data transfer pipelines with pub/sub and Cloud functions
  • Completed the migration of Analytics 1.0 to EKS cluster, handled and resolved all escalations for the project
  • Mentored the team on multiple project implementations
  • Received Rockstar Award from Amagi for contributions
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Nutanix

3 roles

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

Promoted

Aug 2020Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Automated OpenShift deployment under Nutanix platform
  • Developed the first RC cut of Nutanix Ansible plugin along with the basic Python SDK
  • Worked on various bug fixes and enhancements of Nutanix Calm including:
  • ‣ Component Authentication, Vault integration and DSL generation
  • Worked on design, implementation and security management of Calm SaaS under GCP
  • Led the team on ISO 27001 certification for Calm SaaS
  • Proposed enhancements for Nutanix Kubernetes Engine(improved monitoring and networking plugins)
  • Automated API regression test cases(Pytest and Jenkins)
  • Modified the build pipeline for better efficiency(20minutes duration from an hour) and security(vault
  • implementation for secrets)
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Member Of Technical Staff 4

Aug 2019Jul 2020 · 11 mos

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Member Of Technical Staff

Dec 2018Jul 2019 · 7 mos

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Mindcurv

2 roles

Infrastructure Developer

Mar 2018Dec 2018 · 9 mos · Cochin Area, India

  • Led a team responsible for designing, building and deploying an on-premise Openshift Microservices Platform under VMware ESXi
  • Organized client and team meetings to keep the project on schedule
  • Designed, built and deployed a fully automated Microservices Infrastructure with Packer, Terraform, Ansible and custom python scripts:
  • Packer for building VM templates
  • Terraform for Infra(VM) deployment
  • Ansible for Openshift deployment(using openshift-ansible playbook set from Redhat)
  • A python wrapper script to link everything together for one click deployment
  • Designed and deployed Monitoring, Logging and Tracing stacks under the Openshift cluster:
  • Monitoring stack: Prometheus and Grafana
  • Logging stack: ELK
  • Tracing: Zipkin with Elasticsearch as the database
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Infrastructure Specialist - L2

Sep 2016Mar 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Cochin Area, India

  • Configured Jenkins pipeline jobs with Terraform and Ansible for Infra and deployment automation
  • Designed and deployed multiple environments including:
  • Business critical multi-node Kafka cluster with replication and multi partition configuration
  • Multi-node ELK cluster with a Kafka message brokers between Elasticsearch and Logstash
  • Multi-node MongoDB cluster
  • Created jenkins jobs for automated component upgrade(including minor upgrades of ELK stack)
  • Automated UI test cases and checks with Selenium
  • Created automated jobs for Oracle DB query execution through jenkins(cx_Oracle module for base script)
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Urolime technologies private limited

Team Lead

Dec 2014Sep 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Cochin Area, India

  • Managed a team of DevOps engineers responsible for building and automating client environments
  • Took part in client meetings on R&D and business development
  • Designed and automated client infrastructures under AWS and Rackspace
  • Designed and created large scale multi role Ansible playbook(s)
  • Provisioned multi-node Hadoop, Hbase and Zookeeper clusters
  • Dockerized production and staging application clusters
  • Automated deployments using Jenkins, Ansible and Capistrano
  • Used AWS SDK(boto3) for custom application scripting
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Armia systems, inc

Systems Engineer

Feb 2012Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Cochin Area, India

  • Fulfilled the role of a Technical Lead responsible for handling escalations, providing solutions and implementing technology standards.
  • Automated server management and report generation via ansible and fabric.
  • Created python scripts for managing an environment via ssh(paramiko module)
  • Configured shell scripts for backup and failover configuration.
  • Implemented icinga(a nagios fork) for monitoring the infrastructure.
  • Configured a custom rrdtool based graphing solution for a graphical metric overview.
  • Configured squid proxy for monitoring and restricting network traffic.
  • Worked with Xen, KVM and OpenVZ virtualization platforms.
  • Implemented and managed mysql High Availability(replication) Corosync and Pacemaker.
  • Configured and managed LAMP and LEMP stacks.
  • Managed and built various environments with:
  • Hardware and software RAID
  • Custom lighttpd configuration for streaming
  • Nginx with ruby passenger
  • Postfix with SASL authentication
  • Exim mail server
  • Bind DNS server
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