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Samit Pal

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience in DevOps and SRE.
  • Expert in cloud computing and large-scale systems.
  • Proven track record in building observability platforms.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Cybersecurity.

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Skills

Core Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringDatabase ManagementCloud ComputingSystems Administration

Other Skills

Amazon Web ServicesAnsibleBigQueryCentralized Monitoring SystemCross-functional Team LeadershipDjangoGoGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformLAMPLAMP TechnologyLinux AdministrationLinux MigrationLoad BalancingLogging

About

In a career spanning 20+ years, I started as a web programmer, then gradually veered towards Devops/SRE. My skills include: Tech Skills * Linux/Solaris systems administration. * Go (aka golang), Python programming language. * Cloud computing technologies like Azure/AWS Cloud platforms. * Docker containers and Amazon ECS. * Golang web frameworks like gorilla, echo. Python web frameworks like django. * Opensource softwares like apache, nginx, squid, mysql. * Citrix Netscalers. * System integration using open source technologies. * Configuration management tools like ansible, terraform. * Largescale/Distributed systems like Google’s bigtable, dremel. Soft skills * Strong instinct. * Good team player. * Ability to mentor junior members and motivate. * Good at project management. * Effective communicator. Github: https://github.com/samitpal/

Experience

22 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Freshworks

Principal Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer

Aug 2019Aug 2023 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Member of the DBaaS (Database as a service ) team. Designed and implemented the self-managed MySQL and Redis services.
  • Worked on building the next gen self managed observability platform for all of Freshworks.
MySQLRedisObservabilitySite Reliability EngineeringDatabase Management

Citrix r&d india private limited

Principal SRE

Sep 2018Feb 2019 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Fireeye cybersecurity private limited

2 roles

Sr. Staff SRE

Dec 2017Aug 2018 · 8 mos

  • * Architected the next generation centralized monitoring system for the company.
Centralized Monitoring SystemSite Reliability Engineering

Staff SRE

Aug 2016Aug 2018 · 2 yrs

  • I built and now manage an end to end hosted monitoring platform inside FireEye. This is a self service infrastructure used by other SRE teams in FireEye for their monitoring/alerting needs. I built this solution in FireEye integrating several open source tools like Graphite, Grafana with custom tools written in Go and python.
  • Built from scratch a centralized logging platform for all of FireEye using various open source tools like fluentbit, fluentd etc.
Monitoring PlatformOpen Source ToolsSite Reliability Engineering

Google

Site Reliability Engineer/Systems Administrator

Aug 2012Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Responsible for managing Google for Work Technology products.
  • Responsible for managing Google cloud products like Bigquery(https://developers.google.com/bigquery/), Google api serving infrastructure (0.5 million qps).
  • Detailed Google work experience at http://goo.gl/Q8rAfu
Google CloudBigQuerySite Reliability EngineeringCloud Computing

Inmobi

Operations Lead

Feb 2012Aug 2012 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Lead an operations team managing couple of products.

Google

Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2006Jan 2012 · 6 yrs · Bangalore

  • I started as a system administrator looking after corporate infrastructure. Later I moved to the SRE role along with the others in the team.
  • I designed, coded and maintained python/django based application to manage ssl certificates.
  • I wrote and open sourced an apache module in c language (http://code.google.com/p/mod-dosblock/) which enables dos/ddos protection in the http layer.
  • I wrote a module (in c language) for privoxy which added load balancing support.
  • I was the TL managing several infrastructural pieces,
  • the Google corporate intranet which was a LAMP stack.
  • a privoxy proxy (https://www.privoxy.org/) based anonymizer service.
  • a python based short url service used inside the organization.
  • a java based directory service.
  • As a team member I was involved in managing,
  • iGoogle service with a peak 40k qps traffic.
  • Squid base corporate proxy fleet for all of of Google.
  • Managed hosting for internal applications using Apache, Mysql.
  • An internal reverse proxy solution for internal applications.
SSL ManagementPythonDjangoSite Reliability Engineering

Birlasoft limited

Systems Analyst @Birlasoft LTD

Nov 2004Jan 2006 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida Area, India

  • I worked as a solaris system administrator. I was involved in server administration for 90 plus solaris,linux servers for GE (Birlasoft's client). I was involved in service transition to India after client site visit.
Linux AdministrationOpen Source TechnologiesSystems Administration

Hcl comnet ltd

Systems Specialist @HCL COMMNET LTD.

Jun 2003Nov 2004 · 1 yr 5 mos · Noida, India

  • Primary responsibilities included administration of around 100 Solaris, Linux, Netapp Servers. We had to respond to automated and manual alerts appropriately in a timely manner. We troubleshooted and resolved system related problems. All of these had to be done strictly in line with defined processes.
Solaris AdministrationSystems Administration

Samsung sdsi pvt ltd

System Adminitrator @Samsung SDSI Pvt Ltd

Aug 2002May 2003 · 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • I got hired as a system administrator at Samsung SDSI. I was responsible for migrating some of their key infrastructure from windows to Linux. I also acted as a release engineer there. My prior experience in php,mysql got noticed and I got involved in a project that required expertise in LAMP technology. I was the key member in the project playing the role of mentor for some engineers.
Solaris AdministrationLinux AdministrationSystems Administration

Solutionhut india

System Admin/Integrator @SolutionHut India

Dec 1999Aug 2002 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Delhi

  • SoultionHut was a startup during the dotcom days providing primarily web based solutions to its customers. I started off on developing web services using php,mysql. Later I got involved into designing/implementing Linux and open source technology based complete solutions for its clients. Developing and the integrating a custom php based solution with openldap for NTPC was one of the highlights.
Linux MigrationLAMP TechnologySystems Administration

Education

Tripura University

B.Sc — Physics Hons

Jan 1994Jan 1997

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