Saurabh Hirani

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India20 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building and automating infrastructure.
  • Strong advocate for knowledge sharing and mentoring.
  • Proven track record in leading SRE initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned SRE and Infrastructure Engineer with a focus on automation and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

SrePlatform EngineeringCustomer Reliability EngineeringInfrastructure ManagementAutomationInfrastructure AutomationMonitoringHybrid CloudApi DevelopmentInfrastructure DesignDeploymentProduct DesignDevelopmentMessaging SolutionsInfrastructure Components

Other Skills

AITech DiscoveryTrainingMetrics MonitoringProduct RoadmapSecurity ComplianceConfiguration ManagementToolingData Center ProductsVirtualizationCloud ComputingProgrammingPerlRubyNetworking

About

Experienced in building tools, automating infrastructure and sharing knowledge. I automate what I can, question what I can't and evangelize who I should. I believe in trying out new tools and technologies in right doses that can help me build better systems and clean up infrastructure mess. I don't shy away from rewriting stuff or moving away from what I built in favor of something better. I am a consistent learner and I enjoy sharing my knowledge. I have spoken at meetups, conferences, conducted training sessions at colleges and have mentored junior engineers. I firmly believe in giving back what I learn and make it a point to contribute when I can: https://github.com/saurabh-hirani https://saurabhhirani.substack.com/ http://saurabh-hirani.github.io/writing/ http://saurabh-hirani.github.io/speaking/

Experience

One2n

Principal SRE

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Working with customers to help them achieve business outcomes. My work involves engaging in tech discovery, architecting SRE and platform engineering workflows, building roadmaps, heads down execution and enabling teams to deliver promised outcomes.
  • Driving internal learning initiatives through regular tech sessions, SRE trainings, etc. I am the Chief Head Of Talent Upskilling - CHOTU @ One2N. I teach to learn.
  • Responsible for leading efforts to build the organization's AI muscle through internal projects, educating the team on the tools and technologies to be used for customer deliverables and deep diving into PoC setups and end to end project execution for new tech initiatives.
  • Contributing to our marketing efforts by driving the blog pipeline, organizing and presenting solid demo driven talks at meetups and mentoring engineers to make them better at their technical writing and meetup/conference talks.
SREPlatform EngineeringAITech DiscoveryTraining

Last9 inc

SRE / Senior Solution Engineer

Feb 2021Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Leading the extended SRE team for high ticket customers like - Jiocinema, Hotstar, Clevertap and directing a team of Customer Reliability Engineers to ensure predictable onboarding, automated monitoring of metric ingestion pipelines and day-to-day troubleshooting of customer issues for hosted and managed TSDB offerings.
  • Working closely with SRE teams of customers at various stages of growth - startups and established enterprises to help them get better at practices around metrics, monitoring and alerting.
  • Part of the core product team - identifying problems and providing solutions for customers. Contributing to the product roadmap around observability-as-code and alerting strategies.
  • Contributing to the content part of the community org at Last9 and working on Last9 integrations.
  • That guy who works with junior engineers across the org to ensure that they get better at their SRE skills.
SRECustomer Reliability EngineeringMetrics MonitoringProduct Roadmap

Autodesk

2 roles

Principal Devops Engineer

Promoted

May 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Singapore

  • Summary:
  • Led efforts for infrastructure management and automation.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Primary point of contact for managing infrastructure and deployment for multiple products.
  • Working on configuration management and Infra-as-code setups to automate infra setup and deployments.
  • Leading efforts for detecting and fixing security violations and ensuring complaince by building internal tools e.g scanners to detect open security groups, pre-emptive resource limit reporting, checking security violations for AWS components like SQS, Kinesis, etc.
  • Doing POCs and building internal products for practices like chaos engineering, automated incident management.
  • Worked with multiple products in Autodesk to audit them from a best practices standpoint of - architecture, reliability and security.
  • Led efforts in building internal best practices community for Terraform.
  • Mentored junior engineers and interns to get them up and running in making valuable contributions to the infrastructure roadmap.
  • Created deployment checklists, RCAs, best practice posts to build a high quality knowledge base.
  • Tools and Technologies:
  • Programming languages and frameworks: Python, Flask, Golang.
  • Infrastructure and config management: AWS, Terraform, Packer, Vagrant, Vault, Chef, Ansible.
  • Container orchestration: AWS ECS, Kubernetes.
  • Monitoring: Sensu, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS Cloudwatch.
  • Others: AWS Lambda, Jenkins, Cloud custodian, Elasticsearch, Splunk.
Infrastructure ManagementAutomationSecurity ComplianceConfiguration Management

Senior Devops Engineer

Feb 2017May 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Singapore

Blue jeans network

Lead Engineer - DevOps

Sep 2014Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

  • Summary:
  • Worked on tooling and infrastructure automation.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Led efforts to fully automate, distribute and scale monitoring and metrics collection pipeline.
  • Python, Ruby, Linux SME.
  • Focussed on both SRE and tools aspects of the job.
  • Core member of the Tools Team.
  • Led Sprints for Tools and Operations team.
  • Drove Tools roadmap, architecture decisions and documentation.
  • Participated in regular oncall and focusing on oncall alert debt reduction.
  • Mentored junior engineers.
  • Led open source efforts and representing the organization at conferences and meetups.
  • Tools and Technologies:
  • Programming languages and frameworks: Python, Ruby, Flask, JQuery.
  • Config management tools: Chef, Ansible.
  • Monitoring and metrics collection: Icinga2, Sensu, Graphite, Grafana.
  • Operating systems and Virtualization platforms: Linux, AWS.
  • Others: Rundeck, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana.
ToolingInfrastructure AutomationMonitoring

Intel corporation

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2012Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Summary:
  • Worked on products for the data center and communications systems group.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Core team member for Intel Hybrid Cloud - an onpremise hybrid virtualization product.
  • Member of the SmartCell R & D team - a product to augment existing public wifi endpoint functionality by using video caching and targeted ad pushing.
  • Python SME to develop interface between low level API libraries and userland code for internal products.
  • Led Proof of concept setups for developing internal remote execution tool.
  • Tools and technologies:
  • Programming languages: Python, Ruby, Flask, jQuery, Bootstrap
  • Operating systems and Virtualization platforms: Linux, Windows, Openstack, XenServer
Hybrid CloudData Center ProductsAPI Development

Capgemini india pvt. ltd.

Senior Consultant

Feb 2010Feb 2012 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Summary:
  • Led efforts for building the core team and responsible for design, development and deployment of CITEIS (Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure)
  • Responsiblities:
  • First member of the team to ramp up on the entire codebase and contribute to development efforts.
  • Built the team and mentored new hires on training and development practices for the product.
  • SME for VMWare, VMWare APIs, Perl and Linux.
  • Performed multiple roles - backend engineer, UI developer, release cycle management, etc.
  • Engaged with the onshore teams as a single point contact for design and development decisions.
  • Built knowledge base for local VMware expertise by conducting trainings and developing documentation.
  • Tools and technologies:
  • Programming languages and frameworks: Perl, OO Perl, jQuery
  • Operating systems and Virtualization Platforms: Linux, Windows, VMware Vsphere
  • Database: Oracle
Infrastructure DesignDevelopmentDeployment

Merce technologies pvt. ltd.

2 roles

Software Consultant

Promoted

Dec 2008Dec 2009 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Summary:
  • Worked in the role of a Senior Software Consultant to provide product design, development and deployment of their new product - Merce Broadside - http://broadside.merceworld.com/ - a mass mailing solution which uses multiple sources of input and has single dispatcher and multiple transmitters which pump mails in parallel while keeping track of resource utilization.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Worked with the CTO to design, develop and deploy the solution.
  • Wrote the core modules of dispatcher and transmitter.
  • Led the team to keep track of release schedules and delivery on time.
  • Technologies:
  • Programming languages: Perl, OO Perl.
Product DesignDevelopmentDeployment

Senior Systems Engineer

Sep 2005Aug 2008 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Summary:
  • Merce (Messaging and Resource Control Environment) provided messaging and infrastructure component solutions (Email servers, Web proxies, File servers, etc.)
  • Responsibilities:
  • First job - tried out everything - Software Developer, Systems Administrator, Systems Integrator, Pre Sales Technical Specialist, Support Engineer, Team Lead, etc.
  • Explored multiple Linux tools and created points of integration with internal products. Worked with - Apache, Squid, IPTables, Cyrus IMAP server, tcpdump, etc.
  • Design, developed and deployed multiple standalone projects to add to the product
  • Technologies:
  • Linux, Perl, OO Perl, Linux toolchain, MySQL.
Messaging SolutionsInfrastructure Components

Self

Writer

Aug 2005Feb 2021 · 15 yrs 6 mos

  • 1. http://saurabh-hirani.github.io/writing/ and https://saurabhhirani.substack.com/
  • My attempt at sharing what I learn in tech.
  • 2. http://crashpoint-zeros-brain.blogspot.in/
  • This is where I write my stories, poems, character sketches and anything that I feel enriches itself if expressed in words. Consider this to be a lifelong journey to hone my craft, well rested in the satisfactory belief that I will never perfect it. I will merely get better than yesterday and be excited for what I become tomorrow. I write because I can.

Education

Dharmsinh Desai University

B.E. — Computer Engineering

Jan 2001Jan 2005

Vidyakunj High school

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