Jun 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• As a Principal Engineer at Altisource, I serve as a technical architect designing the evolution of enterprise-scale infrastructure. I lead the strategy for high-availability environments that empower our engineering teams to deliver mission-critical fintech and real estate platforms with speed and precision.
• Key Contributions & Leadership:
• Strategic Systems Architecture: Architected and scaled robust infrastructure across AWS and hybrid data centers, maintaining high-availability (99.9% uptime) for complex, distributed product suites.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation: Spearheaded the transition from manual provisioning to fully automated orchestration using Terraform, Chef, and Ansible, significantly reducing deployment lead times and environment drift.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provided high-level guidance to senior engineering squads, fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership while driving the delivery of core product components.
• Performance & Capacity Engineering: Lead deep-dive performance analysis across QA, UAT, and Production tiers, ensuring systems remain cost-effective and performant under peak enterprise loads.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with Engineering, QA, and Product Management leadership to synchronize technical roadmaps and ensure the successful launch of scalable product releases.
• Operational Excellence: Championed Agile/SCRUM methodologies and modernized deployment pipelines (Jenkins, Rundeck) to improve engineering velocity and system reliability.
• Talent Development: Influence organizational growth by leading technical interviews and setting the standard for engineering best practices and documentation.
• Tech Stack: AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, Rundeck, Kubernetes, Linux/Unix, Performance Monitoring Tools.

Jun 2015 – May 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• As a Senior Software Engineer, I owned the technical lifecycle and operational success of mission-critical shared services utilized across multiple Intuit business units. My focus was on bridging the gap between high-performance software development and resilient systems architecture.
• Key Contributions:
• Shared Services Ownership: Drove the end-to-end delivery and reliability of core applications, ensuring seamless integration and high performance for diverse internal business partners.
• CI/CD & Deployment Architecture: Conceptualized and engineered sophisticated automated deployment pipelines, streamlining the transition of code from development to AWS and hybrid data center environments.
• Scalable Infrastructure Design: Built and optimized highly available, scalable infrastructure, pioneering the philosophy of "Performance as Code" to ensure efficiency was baked into the application architecture.
• Operational Excellence & Resilience: Led comprehensive systems operations, including the design of monitoring frameworks, incident response strategies, and conducting deep-dive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to drive long-term platform stability.
• Cross-Unit Collaboration: Partnered with various business units to translate complex requirements into technical specifications, ensuring shared tools met the rigorous security and compliance standards of a global financial platform.

Apr 2011 – May 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area

• As Technical Lead in Yahoo Video Platform Production engineering
• Manage thousands of Video Platform application servers and infrastructures across the globe.
• Plan, procure physical servers and Openstack instances to setup end to end video infrastructure.
• Perform Large Scale production upgrades, deployment using CI/CD automation.
• Analyze monitoring requirements and implement monitoring for production infrastructures.
• Capture logs and generate server reports/metrics.
• Collaborate with Product and Development Engineering to support Product roadmaps and execute Video Platform Strategies.
• Design alerts and develop runbooks for Tier I and Tier II for 24/7 monitoring.
• Handle day to day escalation from Triage and Operation Engineering team.

Jun 2009 – Apr 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

• Overall management of Akamai’s huge distributed Unix/Linux server network and to ensure the availability of various services/systems. (Akamai has largest content delivery network in the world).
• Understanding, analyzing and resolving problems related to system and network ranging from simple to complex.
• Responsible for ‘worldwide software deployment’ and working closely with Network partners and resolving non-hardware related problems.
• Analyze and report on trends regarding issues related to various networks.
• Troubleshooting both system performance and network connectivity issues.

Jan 2007 – May 2009 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Cochin, Kerala

• Organization: Remote Server Administration
• About the Job:
• Overall management of Unix/Linux Servers which serves the role of various application servers in the Internet industry.