Shanker Balan

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

18+ years of experience in mission-critical systems.
Expert in Linux, Cloud, and DevOps Automation.
Proven track record in consulting for enterprises and startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud and DevOps expert with extensive experience in enterprise infrastructure solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDevopsInfrastructureVirtualizationService EngineeringProduction ManagementDevelopmentProject Management

Other Skills

Linux System AdministrationSolution ArchitectureAWSMonitoring frameworksPerlShell ScriptingNagiosPuppetPHPFreeBSDApacheScriptingPrivate CloudOpen SourceRuby

About

I provide Tier 3 / Tier 4 24x7 support for enterprises and startups on all things Linux, Cloud and DevOps Automation with 18+ years of experience in vary large scale mission mission critical systems. Available for contract / consulting assignments.

Experience

22 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

13 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Shapeblue india

Managing Consultant

Jan 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos · India

ShapeBlue provides a range of strategic and technical consulting services to help IT Service Providers and Enterprises build true IaaS compute clouds.

Cloud ComputingInfrastructureSolution Architecture

Syscredence

Consultant

Aug 2012 – Present · 13 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

Solutions Architect and Cloud Consultant

Cloud ComputingLinux System AdministrationSolution ArchitectureAWSDevOps

Inmobi

Lead Operations Architect

Aug 2010 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

Building custom tools and customizing open source solutions for managing infrastructure. This includes inventory/configuration management systems, monitoring frameworks and rapid deployment tools
Solutions for scaling the infrastructure using WAN optimizations, Global Software Load Balancing Systems, Virtualization etc
Assisting engineering teams with application design to address scaling requirements

InfrastructureVirtualizationMonitoring frameworks

Yahoo!

2 roles

Manager

Jan 2008 – Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Responsible for all production and service engineering activities related to Search Marketing (searchmarketing.yahoo.com) which comprises of two platforms - Sponsored Search And Content Match. In Bangalore, we have development and QA teams who are responsible for APAC, Emerging Markets and SEA markets.

Service EngineeringProduction Management

Tech Lead

Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 · 4 yrs

Primary point of contact for our development teams in Bangalore for the all new "Classic" Yahoo Mail Interface (http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/products/classic) which is a light weight edition of Yahoo Mail interface intended for low bandwidth connections. The large scale public release was architected, planned and executed from Bangalore.
Yahoo Mail is the largest free email service in the world with over 250 million users.

DevelopmentProject Management