Sagar Loke

Director of Engineering

Milpitas, California, United States20 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable distributed systems.
Led cloud security initiatives at CrowdStrike.
Contributed to major open-source projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on cloud security and distributed systems architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud SecurityDevsecopsCloud DatabaseKubernetesStreaming PipelineCloud InfrastructureReal-time Data ProcessingBig DataDistributed SystemsDatabase ManagementSoftware DevelopmentDatabase Administration

Other Skills

Infrastructure as CodeServerless DatabaseDataStax Kubernetes OperatorApache CassandraCloud OfferingIstiogRPCKafkaGCPBigQueryFlinkHadoopSparkCassandraElasticsearch

About

• Experience in building Streaming Platform which serves few millions requests per second using Istio, envoy, gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker • Expertise in building Scalable Distributed Systems applications, Cassandra & Elasticsearch, Apache Kafka,Confluent Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker,AWS,GCP, Spinnaker, Harness • Expertise in defining the strategy and roadmap for the long-term architecture of data and distributed system applications and infrastructure to meet high performance, availability, scalability, security, and resiliency needs. • Possesses strong leadership qualities with the ability to build, lead, and mentor teams • Proficiency in project planning based on short-term measurable goals and long-term vision. • Experience with GDPR, PCI, SOC etc with respect to data management. SPEAKER ---------- • Elasticon (Yearly Elastic Conference)- 2015 - Describing Elasticsearch Usage and Deployment at Netflix • Meetups at Netflix, Palo Alto Networks • Internal Architecture group, LC Innovate at Lending Club

Experience

20 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs

Current Experience

Crowdstrike

Director of Engineering - Cloud Security

May 2021 – Present · 5 yrs · Milpitas, CA, United States

Leading cloud team as part of Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP).
Cloud Security Products Research and Development:
Shift left security, DevSecOps
Cloud Workload protection, runtime security
Attach Path Visualization
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
https://www.crowdstrike.com/products/cloud-security/falcon-cloud-workload-protection/

Cloud SecurityDevSecOpsInfrastructure as Code

Datastax

Director Of Engineering - Cloud

Aug 2020 – May 2021 · 9 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

Building and leading exciting projects:
Stargate - https://stargate.io/
Building Serverless Database and providing it as a Cloud offering.
DataStax Kubernetes Operator for Apache Cassandra - https://github.com/datastax/cass-operator

Serverless DatabaseDataStax Kubernetes OperatorApache CassandraCloud DatabaseKubernetes

Palo alto networks

Engineering Leader

Jan 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Santa Clara

1. Built Streaming Pipeline for Cortex Platform using Istio (envoy), kubernetes, docker, gRPC, kafka on GCP and Helping the company to generate millions in Revenue.
2. Streaming pipeline supports few million events per second. Number equates to ~130 billions events per day.
Streaming pipeline:
Bi-directional gRPC Servers --> Kafka --> Kafka Consumers --> Cloud Storage, BigQuery
3. Responsible for managing 8+ engineers.
4. Responsible for setting up Istio, Kubernetes, Docker trainings for the various teams under the platform.
5. Handled external communications/collaborations with Confluent as well as Google gRPC teams
6. Setup monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana

IstiogRPCKafkaGCPStreaming PipelineCloud Infrastructure

Lendingclub

Engineering Leader

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr · San Franciso

1. Experience working with Real Time Data Pipeline (Kafka, Flink, hdfs)
2. Worked as a subject matter expert for Cassandra
Evangelizing Cassandra usage across the organization.
3. Provided Big Data as a service which includes Hadoop, Hive, Presto, Spark on AWS EMR.
4. Build, Enhance and support existing ETL pipeline using Sqoop and Oozie workflows. Workflows ingest the data from RDBMS sources like Oracle, Aurora (MySQL).
5. Part of the Architecture Group in the company and a frequent speaker during bi-weekly meetups to talk about system design best practices, various technological choices etc.

KafkaFlinkHadoopSparkReal-Time Data ProcessingBig Data

Netflix

Distributed Systems Architect / Engineering Lead

Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 · 5 yrs · Los Gatos

Cloud Database Engineering
(Java, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Titan DB, Redis)
Worked for Cassandra & Elasticsearch Infrastructure Team
a. Provided Cassandra & Elasticsearch as a Service
b. Responsible for managing 100+ Cassandra & Elasticsearch clusters
c. OSS contributor to Priam project (https://github.com/Netflix/Priam) which manages
Cassandra
e. Author of OSS project - Raigad (https://github.com/Netflix/Raigad) which manages
Elasticsearch
Worked on Graph Database - TitanDB and Redis