Gokul Balaji

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany2 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Microelectronics and Microsystems research.
Proven track record in Site Reliability Engineering at Cisco.
Strong background in Data Center Architecture and Network Security.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Site Reliability Engineer with expertise in Microelectronics and Data Center Architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroelectronicsMicrosystemsSite Reliability EngineeringNetwork SecurityData Center Architecture

Other Skills

modelingsimulationcloud integrationHardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)algorithm developmentreal-time simulationfull stack developmentsecurity files managementnetwork device configurationsautomationCisco ACIload balancersdata center visibilitynetwork migrationAgile methodologies

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Diving deeper into silicon!

Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Helmut-schmidt-universität/universität der bundeswehr hamburg

Research Assistant

Jun 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Hamburg, Germany · Hybrid

Department of Electrical Engineering
> Conducted research on modeling and simulation of electric vehicle charging systems.
> Conducted research on algorithm development for an efficient depot parking management system.
> Performed Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) analysis by integrating a real-time simulator with Raspberry Pi hardware
> Implemented cloud integration to enable secure data exchange between project partners.

modelingsimulationcloud integrationHardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)MicroelectronicsMicrosystems

Cisco

2 roles

Site Reliability Engineer

Aug 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Full stack development of an in-house tool which is used to maintain the lifecycle of security files (ACLs) from creation to implementation on firewalls. This tool is used by network engineers to handle ACLs in Data center and Core networks.
Led a team in defining a workflow, developing scripts to audit and analyze network device configurations in data centers, and automating the traditional decommissioning process. This reduced the time spent in the manual process by multifold.
Ops:
> Worked on code upgrades for network devices in production/non-production data centers
> Migrating services from traditional network architecture to Cisco ACI architecture
> Setting up and configuring local and global load balancers from the ground up
> Migrating services from former load balancers to newer load balancers

full stack developmentsecurity files managementnetwork device configurationsautomationCisco ACIload balancers+2

Technical Undergraduate Intern

Feb 2022 – Jun 2022 · 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Worked as a Site reliability engineering intern in the Data Center and networks team.
Worked on a project that provides an end to end visibility over the data center network. As a part of a scrum team, was involved in migrating the project to a new standard.
Also got an opportunity to learn and understand traditional data center networks, Application centric infrastructure, Network service orchestrator and Agile way of working.

data center visibilitynetwork migrationAgile methodologiesSite Reliability EngineeringData Center Architecture