Jan 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• - Part of the Host Management/TWDB teams at Meta, which write software that manages millions of machines across the company on Tupperware, the internal orchestration service.

Apr 2021 – Dec 2021 · 8 mos

• Managed infrastructure relied on by several Fortune 500 companies, handling over 1 million testing sessions daily
• Led and managed the DevOps team, setting goals, milestones, timelines, dependencies and ensuring SLA compliance
• Reworked processes and streamlined cross-team handshakes to reduce firefighting hours by 15%
• Mentored and guided six junior engineers into senior roles through technical, project level and career support
• Gave over ten company-wide talks to align teams for large cross-team projects and build domain knowledge
• Setup and managed over 20 bare metal Kubernetes clusters end-to-end in multiple datacenters across the world
• Containerized VM workloads to provide immutable deploys and reduced MTTR by 99% ​​on critical services

Apr 2019 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs

• Led a cross-team effort to migrate business critical infrastructure into Kubernetes, without any service downtime
• Setup and managed multiple large scale EKS clusters, with monitoring, CI/CD, multi-tenancy and RBAC
• Built AWS infrastructure at large scale with Infra as Code using Terraform, Ansible and the AWS SDK
• Configured and maintained monitoring and alerting systems, user access management automation, QA pipelines
• Led problem solving and debugging during incident response in high pressure production contexts

Jan 2019 – Mar 2019 · 2 mos · Bangalore

• Built a Quality Control dashboard to monitor a stream of over 6,00,000 API calls a day
• Created and deployed backend services with CI/CD, RBAC and tooling to control and manage the QC dashboard

Aug 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

• Built and managed a multi-tenant Kubernetes cluster that served over 1000 tenants as a team of three
• Set up and administrated infrastructure, monitoring and tooling for over 2000 Kubernetes clusters spread over AWS, GCE and DO
• Built monitoring and fraud detection systems for the Hasura PaaS, and ensured uptime and reliability for production clusters on Hasura
• Created tools to benchmark and compare GraphQL query performance across various GraphQL backends
• Contributed to Hasuractl, a CLI tool for managing Kubernetes based microservices on the Hasura platform in Go
• Working here gave me a good Kubernetes background, and a lot of respect for my brilliant coworkers. It reaffirmed the idea that working with a good team is what makes a job interesting.

Aug 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Designed and built a third party ad management platform with a dynamic dashboard in Rails using the Facebook Ad API
• Implemented database sharding and replication on Postgresql to improve performance and reduce end user latency
• Created automated provisioning hooks and CI/CD pipelines for faster testing and platform deployment

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Worked on implementing face recognition and tagging on uploaded pictures as a part of the JioDrive team
• Improved their face recognition accuracy by 20% on standard datasets by using Local Binary Patterns (LBP)
• Created a Google Glass app to display path to shared coordinates to find friends in crowded areas
• This internship gave me insight into how large teams of people could collaborate and be part of the big picture. I also got to experiment with a bunch of cool things, and build some quick apps.

May 2013 – Jan 2014 · 8 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Led a team of 10 members to create an online presence for Saarang, the annual cultural festival of IIT Madras
• Built a website that received over 6000 visitors per day at it’s peak, and an Android app that received over 2000 downloads
• Designed and led the creation of ERP and hospitality tools that served over 60,000 attendees at Saarang 2014
• This was an incredible learning experience, and gave me a good idea of the complexity involved in managing projects and people.

May 2012 – Jan 2013 · 8 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Built Saarang Select, a music streaming and ranking site to popularize and chose professional bands to be invited for Saarang 2013
• Created an event management portal to organize and manage events and professional shows for Saarang 2013
• Built a ticket sales platform for students that saw sales of over 2 lakhs for Saarang 2013
• This was my first exposure to the web developer world, and it demanded a lot from me, but also helped me gain a lot of valuable skills that are very relevant to my career right now.