Vivek Kumar

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India7 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Site Reliability Engineering with a focus on scalability.
Co-authored a viral SRE course, enhancing industry knowledge.
Proven track record in mentoring and talent management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Site Reliability Engineer with expertise in Infrastructure and DevOps for high-scale applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringTechnical LeadershipEngineeringDevops EngineeringMachine Learning

Other Skills

AerospikeAndroid DevelopmentApache2AutomationBackend DevelopmentBashBusiness WritingCC++Capacity PlanningCareer DevelopmentClassifiersCloud ComputingCloud ServicesCloud-Native Architecture

About

💻 Software Engineer at LinkedIn | Obsessed with writing clean, scalable code and building systems that don’t just work—but last. I ship features, fight latency, and love diving deep into infra, performance, and reliability. Also mentoring and interviewing, because strong teams build strong products. #passionate #driven #products #scale #accountable

Experience

3 roles

Software Engineer - Site Reliability

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Hybrid

Observability: LinkedIn inhouse profiling stack.
Backend Developer for LinkedIn internal cross colo traffic shift tool.

ObservabilityBackend DevelopmentSite Reliability Engineering

Author

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · 2 mos · Hybrid

Co-author of famous and viral SRE course "School Of SRE".
Course Name: Intermediate Linux

Site Reliability Engineer

May 2020 – Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Hybrid

I'm Product SRE, passionate about scaling LinkedIn products to millions
Backend Developer for LinkedIn internal cross colo traffic shift tool.
Developer for LinkedIn China Access tool.
SRE Lead for China Technical strategy change.
Keeping Linkedin.com, LinkedIn.cn, LinkedIn-lite up and running with an availability of 99.99%.
Scale the above-mentioned services and forecast the organic growth.
Capacity and resource planning for micro-services.
Observability around Mobile application crashes and Java-Script errors.
Observability for Apple store and Google play store rating of LinkedIn Apps.
End to end Observability and monitoring of services.
Automating day-to-day toil.
Interviewing to make LinkedIn the place with the best talent, and mentoring new hires, and interns.
Mentor under the LinkedIn CoachIn program.

Technical LeadershipEngineeringBackend DevelopmentCapacity PlanningObservabilitySite Reliability Engineering

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DevOps Engineer

Jan 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · bangalore · On-site

DevOps cum Site Reliability Engineer.
24/7 on-call responsibility and primary point of contact and respond to tackle any issue at infra and service hosted to maintain uptime of service.
Designed an IP Address Management(IPAM) tool that generates BGP IPs for network interfaces on Baremetal/Virtual machines to establish numbered BGP connections with leaf for the DataCenter. This application is intelligent enough to provide unique IPs for each Tor pair and each environment inside that Tor pair and also unique inside DC as per need.
Setting up of VPN service for whole data center access, using easy-RSA and OpenVPN and google two-factor authentication and automating end to end for smooth user experience.
Set up Efficient Monitoring from scratch for Every Server in DC using Riemann event Stream processor and storing using time Series database (Influx DB) and projecting using visualization tool Grafana.
Wrote Plugins to gather system and service metrics hosted on the server and generate Pager alert in case of anomaly.
Automating many trivial operational works on a large scale like backup, setting up servers, verification of servers before going live.
Setup Disaster Recovery for Primary DataCenter from scratch.
Set up Cross DataCenter replication for various datastores like Mariadb (using Galera), Aerospike, ElasticSearch.
Setting up Docstore Clusters like Mariadb(Galera), Aerospike, ElasticSearch, etc.
Working experience with Open source software like Salt stack, Apache Mesos, Nginx, Apache, etc.

DevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringMonitoringAutomationDevOps Engineering

International conference on digitization, analystics, crypto currency and block chain technology for

Keynote Spekaer

Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 · 0 mo · Haldia Institute of Technology

Keynote Speaker at International Conference on Digitization, Analytics, Crypto Currency, and BlockChain Technology for Future Business Transformation to present my work at the conference over "Autonomous Landing of Vision-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle".

Indian institute of technology, kharagpur

Research Intern

Aug 2017 – Aug 2017 · 0 mo · Kharagpur Area, India

The autonomous landing of the unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV), using computer vision.
Developed an image classifier that detected the landing platform and its altitude and safely lands on that desired area.
These kinds of UAVs are helpful in defense, mining, and places where humans can not reach easily.

Indian institute of technology, guwahati

Research Internship

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Guwahati Area, India

Developed a word Classifier using the Machine Learning Approach which classifies phrase on basis of security concerns like whether a given phrase is positive, negative, or neutral in reference to security. Also implemented Twitter crawler which collects twitter data/feeds/tweets/comments using the rest API of twitter for efficient social media analysis.

Machine LearningTwitter API