Brahadambal Srinivasan

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven leader in Open Source software enablement.
Expert in Linux kernel debugging and performance optimization.
Published multiple whitepapers and filed patents in technology.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer with a focus on Open Source and High Performance Computing.

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Skills

Core Skills

LinuxOpen SourceTestingAutomationCloud ComputingSecurityInnovationCollaboration

Other Skills

CommunicationCPythonRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)Technical SupportDebuggersCentOSSuseLogical Volume Manager (LVM)Go (Programming Language)Patch ManagementSoftware Development MethodologiesDebianL3Linux Kernel

About

Strong leader with good interpersonal skills who understands team dynamics, can motivate, plan, track and monitor achievements, is self-motivated, adept, independent and eager to contribute to the success of the organization by utilizing her skills, in a competitive environment on challenging problems. Key Strengths: * C, Unix / Linux, Golang, Python, Perl and Shell scripting. * Experienced in Unix standards requirements, investigation, design, implementation, debugging and testing. * Experienced in Linux in porting, packaging, kernel debugging and providing patches, multipath and Linux File systems. * Experienced in High Performance Computing & High Availability clustering solutions. * Experienced in development of user-space area of libraries, shells and commands. * Performed team lead roles with efficiency. * Strong leadership skills. * Excellent interpersonal skills. * Good ability to lead and mentor others. Publications & Patents: Published 3 whitepapers for migrating toolkits from SG-LX to RHEL / SLES HA solutions. Have filed a patent titled “Data tracking in user space” pending approval from the USPTO. Have filed a patent titled “Improving the accuracy of High Resolution timer expiry in LPM” pending approval from the USPTO. Skills : Languages : C, Golang, Perl, Python, Shell Scripting Operating Systems : Linux, AIX, HP-UX VCS : Git, RTC, Clearcase, CMVC

Experience

17 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

10 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Ibm

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Leading OpenSource Software Enablement (OSSE) and Redhat Acceleration teams in IBM Z Ecosystem Org, aligning technical activities globally and establishing an effective systems for tracking KPIs & quantifiable deliverables.

Advisory Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2019 – Dec 2024 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Provide technical leadership for porting open-source software to Linux on Z system.
Own CICSTX cloud offerings, fixing vulnerabilities and upgrading operators for latest OCP/k8s
Designed Automated Test Framework
Automated performance test runs and streamlined processes for security scans.
Lead the efforts for triaging, debugging, and fixing bugs in Linux Kernel, storage, and other components on POWER platforms for IBM internal support with distros like RHEL, SLES, and Ubuntu.
Held Technical Lead responsibilities for the team.
Perform deep dive analysis on bugs to provide bug trends to test and development for improving the quality of bugs raised and turn-around time on bugs.
Proposed and led an intern project to automate alerting testers of possible failures, collect required FFDC logs at the time of failure, and facilitate opening bugs in a standard format.
Drive process improvements that help reduce turnaround time on bugs.
Focus on customer bug handling and lead interlocks with test and development teams.
Co-authored the redpaper "Service Procedure for Linux on POWER Systems" for external audiences.
Provided leadership and drove discussions for a cross-product innovation squad for a data-agnostic cognitive defect analysis tool.
Presented a talk at the Open Source Summit NA 2020 – 'Quality is Everyone's Responsibility'.

CommunicationCPythonRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)Technical SupportDebuggers+8

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Nov 2015 – Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos

CommunicationRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)DebuggersCentOSSuseLogical Volume Manager (LVM)+3

Staff Software Engineer

Jul 2010 – Nov 2015 · 5 yrs 4 mos

Triaged, debugged, and fixed bugs in Linux Kernel, multipath, and file systems on Power platforms for IBM L3 internal support team on distros like RHEL, SLES, and Ubuntu.
Defined processes and led efforts for OpenPower support and ensured the porting project was on track and completed ahead of time.
Upstreamed patches and ported packages for supporting Debian on a new architecture.
Conducted investigative studies on use cases for Docker and packaging Docker for Debian and Ubuntu for ppc64le support.
Had hands-on experience with packaging in Debian and Ubuntu.
Participated in from-the-scratch open-source projects in hackathons.
Worked extensively on new C Language standards' user-space requirement gathering, design, and implementation of C11 standards compliance support for libc on AIX.
Implemented 64-bit inode support for ksh93 shell on AIX along with innovative testing design.
Investigated, designed, and developed features, enhancements, and fixed bugs on shells, commands, libraries, and the debugger on AIX.
Responsible for requirement gathering, investigation, design, and implementation of new feature enhancements, along with compliance to UNIX standards, to commands and libraries and defect support.
Responsible for test planning and implementation of test cases for features/enhancements/defects in commands and libraries and integration of tests with the existing regression suites.
Technical Lead responsibilities for the entire team's work.
Responsible for handling queries related to the AIX Base OS components.
Provided customer support with efficient solutions.

CL3Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)DebuggersLinux KernelUnix+4

Hewlett-packard

Software Engineer

Sep 2006 – Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Implemented feature enhancements to Serviceguard modules and owned the test suite responsibilities.
Investigated, designed, and developed the Easy Deployment scripts for automating the process of configuring a Serviceguard Cluster.
Investigated and documented whitepapers for NFS and Samba toolkits and for XDC on Serviceguard on Linux to comparative configurations of resource agents on RHCS and SLES Linux HA.
Investigated, designed, and developed a toolkit for integrating Sybase with Serviceguard for Linux and HP-UX.
Responsible for testing and build-validate-deploy packaging activities of HIDS.
Implemented test-case implementation, integration, and maintenance of the regression test suite.
Performed source control management and developed scripts to automate processes.

CPerlHigh AvailabilityIntrusion DetectionSoftware Development Methodologies

Philips

Internship

Jul 2005 – Jul 2006 · 1 yr · Greater Bengaluru Area

Investigated, designed, and developed a binary stream analyzer tool to parse and locate binary streams (mpg, ts, trp, mpeg, etc.) stored on individual desktops in the organization.

C (Programming Language)Software Development Methodologies

Indian institute of science, bangalore

Project Assistant

Feb 2003 – Aug 2004 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built a complete 8-node cluster from scratch in the laboratory.
Designed and developed parallel algorithms for Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics methods of simulations for chemical systems.

Parallel ProgrammingHPC

Synergy infotech pvt. ltd

Testing Engineer

Sep 2001 – Jun 2002 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Tested the Cycle Simulator for FC16 Digital Signal Processor (Mark I and Mark II DSP) cores and developed test cases in assembly language. Checked the GUI functionality of the tool.
Developed String Library functions in C for the compiler.

Test AutomationCAssembly Language