Dec 2017 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Led Platform SRE for core infra components (Rest.li, Dynamic Discovery, File Distribution), increasing platform reliability and uptime.
• Drove capacity engineering strategy, proactively identifying constraints and forecasting needs, which cut infra-related incidents by 30% and optimized resource usage across services.

Apr 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Established LinkedIn’s Production SRE team in India, building it from scratch to 6 engineers; delivered ML-powered tooling that reduced MTTD/MTTR by 35% across production systems.

Sep 2011 – Apr 2015 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I work with Service Engineering group at Yahoo. The responsibilities include working with various product engineering groups at the design stage to build a scalable and reliable architecture for the products, make sure that all production infrastructure/Security Compliance/CI/CD requirements are met, managing the GA release for the product and providing 24x7 support for any production issues.
• I am part of the Global Platforms and manage currently the Production, Development and QA infrastructure for Membership, Geo location and User Database platforms.
• Global Platforms is a premier group at Yahoo running the core back end applications infrastructure for Yahoo. These applications include Membership, Geo Location, UserDB, User Data Services and other services which are core to Yahoo homepage, Yahoo mail, Yahoo news, Yahoo finance etc.
• Key Projects:
• Implemented Scrum model for Service Engineering teams.
• Business Continuity Plan and Operational Review Checklist for the above platforms.
• Sprint support and Release management for all major and minor releases for all the above platforms.
• Built Highly Available infrastructure and implemented policies for no-downtime and no-incident releases.
• Implementation of various Yahoo Developed technologies in coordination with cross-functional global teams.
• Multiple data center migrations for the above properties.
• SOX and PCI compliance for premium services infrastructure.
• Before joining Global Platforms I was part of Advertising Group where I was working Premium Services Infrastructure and Yahoo CRM group.

Apr 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Since September’04 with Info Edge India Ltd, the parent company behind popular Indian websites like naukri.com, jeevansathi.com, 99acres.com, brijj.com, shiksha.com, allcheckdeals.com and quadranglesearch.com.
• Joined as System Administrator
• Promoted to Sr. System Administrator in April 2006
• Promoted to Sr. Manager, Technical Operations in April 2010
• Key Projects:
• ➢ Managed all aspects of Application Support and infrastructure maintenance viz. server health monitoring, server security and optimization of server resources leading to application optimization and thus better user experience.
• ➢ Successfully Implemented Content Delivery Services offered by Akamai for Naukri.com, 99acres.com and Jeevansathi.com.
• ➢ Implemented CFEngine and later Puppet for Configuration management.
• ➢ Conducted Security audits and Penetration Testing.
• ➢ Implemented centralized Network and Server health monitoring solution for more than 200 servers.
• ➢ Implemented SVN (Sub Version Number) for code repository, Capistrano (for code deployment) and Bugzilla (bug tracking system).
• ➢ Developed an indigenous and customized Backup Solution for the Organization using Shell Scripting, PHP and MySQL.
• ➢ Implemented MySQL Master/Slave clusters for all database servers for failover, load distribution and Backup.
• ➢ Implemented RT ticketing System and RTFAQM for effective management of support related issues.
• ➢ Migration of mail server from Sendmail to Lotus Domino Messaging Server in all branches across India.
• Achievements:
• ➢ Started as standalone POC for Technical Operations organization and built a 10 member team taking care of three functions
• ➢ Developed & implemented Policies & Guidelines for the whole System Administration team.
• ➢ Implemented complete Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessment process for all the domains under the Info Edge umbrella.
• Trainings:
• ➢ Attended a five-day training session on MySQL 5.0 Administration by Kai Voight.

Sep 2004 – Mar 2010 · 5 yrs 6 mos

• Naukri.com, Jeevansathi.com, 99acres.com, Shiksha.com, Brijj.com, Naukrigulf.com
• The responsibilities in my current organization include
• 1. Server/Network/Applications/Database Maintenance.
• 2. Server/Network/Application/Database Security and Penetration Testing.
• 3. Software Release Management.
• 4. Optimizing Application/Database performance.
• 5. Configuration Management.

Feb 2004 – Sep 2004 · 7 mos

• Apyl Softwares and Systems Ltd is a premier web hosting organization with data center in US and helping huge customer base in US to host and manage their web sites and is known by the name Jodohost (www.jodohost.com).
• 1. The job required resolving customers' technical Queries for their web sites running on Linux, Windows, Mysql, PGSQL, Cold Fusion servers.
• 2. Maintaining SLA for uptime and customer query resolution.
• 3. Worked on H-sphere control panel which provides a one stop solution for managing servers/webspace to the Administrator and the end user.
• 4. Implemented IP Monitor for centralized monitoring and server health monitoring for the servers.

Jun 2003 – Jan 2004 · 7 mos

• Compare Infobase Ltd is a web development organization with head quarters in New Delhi, India and helps it's huge customer base in India to host their web sites and online solutions on servers managed by Compare Infobase Ltd. Apart from web development the organization is also has it's own high traffic web sites like www.mapsofindia.com, www.dgreetings.com etc. and also develops custom turnkey solutions to various large and SMB enterprises.
• The responsibilities in this organization included
• 1. Server Maintenance.
• 2. Database Maintenance.
• 3.Mail Server Maintenance.
• 4. Web Site Traffic Analysis.