Kalyanasundaram Somasundaram

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps practices.
  • Proven track record in disaster recovery and cloud migration projects.
  • Strong background in machine learning and data management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in Site Reliability Engineering and Cloud Solutions.

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AlgorithmsBashF5 BigIPGangliaHttpdJavaLDALinuxLoad BalancingMachine LearningNagiosPuppetRedisTCP/IPVirtualization

About

"Experienced Lead Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Skilled in Python, Httpd, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Bash, and Domain Name System (DNS). Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) focused in Computer Science from College of Engineering, Guindy. "[sic] autogenerated by LinkedIn!!![Not Bad]

Experience

13 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs
Average Tenure
1 yr 10 mos
Current Experience

Google

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Linkedin

2 roles

Staff Engineer, Site Reliability

Promoted

Mar 2021May 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • 1. Working with the mysql server engineering charter. The team adds features to open source
  • mysql server to add storage, compute quota, enhanced audit logging and SAN based
  • cert authentication.
  • 2. Founding member of OS upgrade automation in Linkedin. The team automates cluster
  • health checks, draining applications, upgrading via PXE or yum, and recovering
  • applications on hosts.
  • 3. Led the Disaster Recovery project for LinkedIn source of truth NoSQL data store
  • Espresso.
  • 4. Leading the School of SRE charter in Linkedin.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Feb 2019Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • 1. Improving performance and availability of Linkedin's NoSQL store
  • 2. Making Linkedin's NoSQL offering cloud ready for Azure migration

Media.net

2 roles

Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Oct 2018Jan 2019 · 3 mos

Lead Devops Engineer

Jan 2016Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Architect, Automate, Scale and maintain reliable platforms
  • 1.Have setup and continue managing Private Cloud using Cloudstack, KVM and storage orchestration using HPE3PAR and clvm
  • Gave a talk at Cloud Server Conference about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xxBc0iHcLk&t=11s&index=3&list=LLtt5PV46lLSaX8KgE1-hy2A
  • 2. Created scalable load balancing solutions with Load Balancers like Netscaler, BigIP, ELB, HAProxy, varnish and IPTABLES statistic module
  • 3. Have Setup and managed PFsense to optimise IPSEC tunnel performance to AWS
  • 4. Have Managed and improved custom DNS solution using Powerdns pipe backend
  • 5. Have setup and continue managing OpenAM to support SAML based SSO authentication
  • 6. Determined the resource usage of machines/VMs and compare it with allocated resources to suggest lower/higher offering
  • 7. Helping the Kubernetes team in setting up container infra
  • Helped them in setting up network for docker containers to communicate. Compared macvlan and veth networking.
  • Compare and Contrast API/Helm/CRD+Custom Controller way of building services on kubernetes.
  • 8. Mentoring a team of Devops and drafting policies to avoid common pitfalls. Helping them by architecture and code review

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Developer Operations

Jul 2012Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos · bangalore

  • 1. Have Set up Linux Containers and made all critical systems like puppet, mcollective to be highly available with redundancy
  • Made Linux Containers working on RHEL6 systems
  • Compared linux bridges, macvlan, openvswitch for container communication
  • Took care of certificate and Certificate Revocation List Syncing for puppet and mcollective to work properly
  • 2. Developed a predictive based system to forecast number of apache and nginx hits at any moment in a day using historical data to identify attacks.
  • 3. Part of the team which built platform and infrastructure required while building our new DC at New York and while migrating portion of our services to AWS.
  • Setup the VPC and split subnets for public, private and DMZ traffic at AWS
  • Setup VPN IPSEC tunnels to new DC(s)
  • Built DNS, Monitoring and orchestration platform at new DC(s)

University of british columbia

Research Assistant

May 2011Aug 2011 · 3 mos

  • Designed a machine learning to classify bug reports across various products in an open source bug
  • repository without the intervention of human triager; Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA), Support Vector Machines(SVM), naïve
  • Bayesian Classifiers.

Education

College of Engineering, Guindy

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2012

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