Nov 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Aug 2011 – Oct 2017 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

• Responsibilities
• LSF & License service Lead for Qualcomm Bangalore Design Centre.
• Managing 6 membered team.
• Handling LSF & License Escalations from Local and Global customers during India working hours.
• Part of GAT (Grid Administration Team, Which is Qualcomm’s LSF architecture team and Level 4 support).
• Fine tuning LSF parameters for best performance, stability and reliability of the clusters across Qualcomm sites.
• LSF POC for Bangalore and APAC LSF clusters.
• Support Management to take decisions related to Cluster Capacity.
• POC for Network Computer (NC) which is another Job scheduler from RTDA.
• Working with OEM of cluster software (LSF) for any issues.
• Understanding customer project Compute requirements and facilitate Optimum solutions.
• Responsible for Availability, Stability and Reliability of all clusters across Qualcomm with ~15000 nodes
• Actively involved in Projects related to the domain either local or global in nature
• Work with Grid Software Development team to come up with various solutions – conceptualize and help them to come up with solutions, test them and to release to all clusters.
• Achievements
•  Awarded with 8 Qualstars in last 5 years for various contributions.
•  Rewarded with Employee of the Month January 2015.

Mar 2008 – Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Responsibilities
• Handling day to day LSF Operational Configurations
• Handling Escalations from businesses.
• Co-ordinating with other domains for issues which has dependency on multiple domains
• Fine tuning LSF parameters for best performance, stability and reliability of the cluster.
• Supporting and solving day-to-day LSF user requests/issues/escalations.
• Working with OEM of cluster software (LSF) for any issues.
• Understanding customer project Compute requirements and facilitate Optimum solutions.
• Checks for Availability, Stability and Reliability of the cluster with ~1000 nodes (6000+ cores)
• Actively involved in Projects related to the domain either local or global in nature
• TI India representative in the Global Monitoring Team.
• Achievements
• Rewarded with “Making a Difference” once and “Making an Impact” twice this Year (2010)
• Part of the Team who won “Team of the Quarter” 2Q 2010

Aug 2006 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Achievements
• Distinctly appreciated for implementing and maintaining two Linux clusters for Kuwait Oil Company
• 1st Cluster with 64 nodes - batch system used was Torque integrated with Chears. MPICH and Infiniband Network were used for high speed computing.
• 2nd Cluster with 90 nodes- batch system used was LSF 6.2 integrated with Eclipse, VIP, and Nexus. Scali 5.2 and Infiniband Network were used for high speed computing.
• Capably administered the Hardware and Software Failures by tracking them through Sun N1 Grid Service Provisioning System.
• Mastered on fundamentals of Reservoir Simulation Tools to promptly resolve Job Failures on the Cluster.
• Skillfully prioritised and rapidly taken action to resolve user level issues and thereby keeping the customer satisfaction high.
• Managed excellent interpersonal cum professional relationship with Hardware Vendors to make them act quickly for troubleshooting and aided them with the primary level technical support on Hardware related issues during the Implementation and maintenance of Linux Clusters.
• Actively contributed in incorporating the multiple applications with LSF, like Eclipse (Reservoir Simulation tool from Schlumberger), VIP (Reservoir Simulation tool from Landmark), Nexus (Reservoir Simulation tool from Landmark) etc.

Oct 2004 – Jul 2006 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

• Responsibilities
• Manage and monitor multi-environment Cluster with 2500+ Linux and 100+ Solaris Servers
• Responsible for administering multiple activities like user modifications, monitoring queues, hosts and user jobs etc. simultaneously and flawlessly on a regular basis.
• Worked in Frontline support to handle user level issues.
• Troubleshoot EDA tool failures on the Cluster
• Deftly played the key role in the Team for synchronization with other team members to solve acute problems impacting the Cluster and the Jobs functioning on it.
• Achievements
• Bagged the “Achievement beyond targets Customer Satisfaction & Productivity Improvement” by Wipro, Linux Team in 2005.
• Rewarded with the “Contribution in the Area of LSF Configuration and Proactive front-line Support” by esteemed client, Texas Instruments, LSF Team in 2005 while working on a project on behalf of Wipro.

Jul 2002 – Sep 2004 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

• Responsibilities
• Installation and configuration of Linux Servers & workstations for corporate Clients.
• Managed the Linux Servers at Office premise of the company.
• Achievements
• Numerous appreciations received for successfully coordinating the Project team to understand, replicate and resolve issues at clients sites during implementation.
• Operational efficiency increased by providing basic and advanced level training as RHCE trainer for IT professionals
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