Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

• My daily responsibilities include being part of Creative Cloud and Business platforms:
• Managing a large fleet of databases and clusters with respect to their end-to-end lifecycle using automations, performance tunings, benchmarking, etc.
• Technologies we use are Cassandra, MySQL (RDS, Aurora, Serverless), MongoDB,Postgres, etc.
• Managing Infra in which databases are hosted like AWS, Azure and look for Database related cost optimizations wherever necessary.
• Automating deployment and management processes using Terraform, Shell, Python scripting, Chef cookbooks, including blue-green deployments for zero downtime and other tools to minimize manual intervention.
• Enhancing observability with advanced monitoring tools such as Grafana, CloudWatch, Prometheus exporters, and alerting systems like ServiceNow Pagers.
• Syncing with engineering counterparts to discuss architecture, schema changes, performance tuning for databases, and set guidelines.
• Leading root cause analysis and developing self-healing solutions to minimize downtime.
• Key Projects:
• Terraform automation for Aurora Serverless & RDS disaster recovery
• Multi-account database inventory system with KLAM API integration and MySQL analytics
• TB-scale Cassandra-to-Keyspaces migration with AI-powered validation
• Kubernetes-native monitoring: Custom CRDs, CloudWatch automation, Helm/Argo CD deployments
• LangChain agents and MCP servers for AWS infrastructure monitoring

Oct 2021 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Associated with Adobe Connect team which is a leader in meeting/web-conferencing.
• Proactively monitoring application and database alerts via key tools like Nagios, Prometheus, Splunk for logging, Grafana for dashboarding, Service Now for Pagers, creation of custom metrics using Python and running them as service and exporting them dashboards etc.
• Automating certain day to day repetitive tasks using scripting (Python, ShellScript, etc.)
• Working on different cloud technologies like AWS to manage our infrastructure created using Terraform, use AWS SSM to manage nodes and deploy changes, configure cloudwatch dashboards, manage application and network load balancers, cost optimization for tags, EKS cluster upgrades, RDS and lambda configurations, SSM, creation of components using Terraform etc.
• Working on different database technologies like SQL Server, Postgres, Cassandra etc.
• Deployment of new versions of application from end to end using automation, CI/CD tools like Saltstack, Rundeck, Jenkins etc.
• Exposure to containerization technologies like Docker/Kubernetes for creation of statefulsets, config changes, deployments, etc.
• Creating and auditing run books for auditing/knowledge sharing.

May 2014 – Oct 2021 · 7 yrs 5 mos

• Worked in multiple product teams Adobe Connect, AEMM, Primetime, Adobe Campaign
• Managed large fleet of Postgres databases our SaaS product.
• Managed large Druid clusters for Campaign reporting using HBase, Hadoop technologies, hosted in AWS.
• Writing all configurations of product in javascript and Python to avoid manual product onboarding.
• Proactively monitoring application and database alerts via key tools like New Relic monitors, Nagios, Icinga, Splunk for logging, Grafana for dashboarding etc.
• Automating certain day to day repetitive tasks using scripting (Python, ShellScript, TSQL etc.)
• Developing tools for daily activities or projects e.g. provisioning of customers.
• Working on different database technologies like SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres etc. as part of different products.
• Deployment of new versions of application from end to end using automation, CI/CD tools like Rundeck, Ansible etc.

Jul 2013 – May 2014 · 10 mos

• We maintain internal databases for various Adobe applications with full accountability working in a 24*7 environment having more than 100 SQL Server instances.
• Ensuring 24x7 availability.
• Handling databases around 2TB in size.
• Attending meetings and understanding requirements of the clients and designing environment according to their needs.
• Working on different tools as per the requirement.
• Configured monitoring tool for my environment (SCOM 2007R2) and currently undergoing (Sharepoint 2010) training.
• Undergo various POC’s from time to time before presenting a valid case study for a particular product before a meeting.