Sep 2021 – Mar 2022 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Owned the Data Engineering, Data Analytics, and Data Science charter for Cloud Security organization.
• Built a new core engineering team of 15+ members from the grounds up that includes Engineering Managers, Architects, Developers, and Product Management.
• Built a distributed and self-service data platform by collecting data from various data sources including but not limited to data/control/management plane services, incident management system, chaos/fuzzing infrastructure, VMs and physical devices, etc.
• Built an intelligent platform that auto detects incidents, anomalies, outages, SLI breaches, and then auto root causes, mitigates and an outage is auto declared to all relevant parties/customers. Incidents with common root cause are autocorrelated thereby reducing intervention by on-call engineers
• in turn saving ~$100M/yr for Microsoft.
• Technologies: Azure, Databricks, Spark, Snowflake, dbt, AI/ML, MLOps, etc.

Jun 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · Hybrid

• Built a 35+ member core engineering team from the grounds up that includes Data Engineering, Analytics, Data Science, Product Management, and UI/UX.
• Conceptualized and built a SaaS based cloud-agnostic data platform featuring data ingestion from various sources, data profiling, data quality, self-service data processing pipelines (streaming and batch) for various reporting, analytical, monitoring, and machine learning use cases.
• Built a metadata management platform, a knowledge graph to discover data/metadata, systems to handle data lineage, data governance, recommendation systems, data visualization, query interfaces to fetch and play around the data within the platform.
• Technologies: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Neo4j, Pinot, Presto, Data Lake, AI/ML, etc.

Feb 2017 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Built products that manage, monitor, and alert LinkedIn’s huge Data Centre network infrastructure that deals with petabyte scale traffic.
• Re-architected multiple legacy monolithic Data Centre traffic monitoring and alerting applications using modern tech stack like micro-services architecture, Big Data Stack, Caching Technologies, AI/ML, etc.
• Built a unified data platform that consolidated monitoring and alerting data, enabling correlation engines and real-time recommendations, reducing incident resolution time by 40%.
• Developed an ML-driven self-healing system for LinkedIn’s data centers that auto-detected and corrected issues, reducing downtime incidents by 35%, and cutting production support engineering
• costs by 75%.
• Built systems that collect, analyze, process, and interpret petabytes of data and information from thousands of network devices to help network engineers to isolate and articulate key issues, and then make recommendations on best course of action.
• Built and maintained the state-of-art ETL pipelines that make data from network devices available and accessible to monitoring systems to make data-driven decisions.
• Technologies: Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Presto, Pinot, Redis, ElasticSearch, AI/ML, MLOps, etc.

Apr 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area · On-site

• Joined a startup called Arkin during its stealth mode which was later acquired by VMware.
• Built the Network Analytics Platform from the ground up, enabling real-time monitoring of servers, applications, and distributed cloud systems that send information about the health of these components, error information, logs, and alerts.
• Built a data platform that collects product usage data from customers, log files, system health stats, telemetry data, etc. and provides analytics for use by developers and sales engineers to improve the product and sales.
• Directed automation and DevOps initiatives (CI/CD, continuous verification) that accelerated deployment velocity and improved product reliability across thousands of enterprise servers.
• Designed and developed multiple tools and libraries to manage, alert and monitor production systems.
• Partnered with product and sales leaders to develop POCs and demo environments, showcasing VMware’s cloud and data center capabilities to global customers.
• Technologies: AWS, Hadoop, Kafka, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, CI/CD Tools.

Mar 2013 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Built and scaled a 28-member engineering team in India by successfully transitioning four major projects from the US.
• Led validation of Cisco’s Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) Cloud Reference Architecture, ensuring quality, performance, and stability for large-scale service provider environments.
• Directed design, integration, and testing of enterprise-scale data center and cloud infrastructure, enabling reliable deployments across multiple Cisco business units.
• Collaborated cross-functionally with global teams to deliver multi-stage UC upgrades, cloud integration, and performance optimizations that improved customer experience.
• Technologies Used: Cloud, SaaS, Data Center, VMware vSphere, Networking, etc.

Jul 2008 – Mar 2013 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Rose through multiple leadership positions to define and direct end-to-end QA, testing, and release processes for state-of-the-art storage infrastructure and data management features of company's multi-billion dollar Data ONTAP product line.
• Formulated and implemented testing strategies for Storage Virtualization and Shared Storage (cluster-mode) product lines in the Core Software Division for multiple releases.
• Single-point-of-contact to transition Data ONTAP storage infrastructure from single-node to multi-node cluster. Designed and developed test strategies for smooth transition of storage interfaces (CLIs, APIs, and SNMPs) to cluster-mode. The role required intensive collaboration with all BUs within NetApp.
• Steered efforts in functional, and system testing (stress, performance, and scalability), automation, code coverage improvement of NAS (specifically CIFS/SMB) protocol for multiple features.
• Core member of NetApp UI Review Board that reviews the design of every single CLI, UI messages, command output, and error messages to improve user experience. Reviewed, redesigned, and approved hundreds of CLIs.
• 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐝: NAS, Multi-pathing, Multi-tenancy, Clustering, CIFS, SNMP, FTP, Storage Caching, Testing File System I/Os, System Testing, WAN Optimization, IOMeter, IORate.

Jul 2004 – Jun 2008 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for developing, and testing of multiple releases of WebSpehre MQ, a messaging middleware platform, and IBM Message Service Client for C/C++ (XMS), supporting 80+ operating environments.
• Responsible for porting IBM Message Service Client for C/C++ (XMS) onto Solaris 64-bit and Linux x86-64 platforms.
• Successfully transitioned multiple projects from IBM UK to India within very short duration of time. Defined charter, and execution plan for all transitioned projects.
• 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐝: WebSphere MQ, Middleware, Message Queue, XMS, JMS, C/C++, Porting, Solaris 64-bit, Linux x86-64, gdb, dbx, Unix/Linux Internals, White-box Testing, API Testing, Test Architect, Test Coverage Improvement.

Sep 2003 – Jul 2004 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Responsible for the design and development of BMC Software’s SQL BackTrack for Sybase, and Open Backup Stream Interface product lines.
• Involved in designing functional specifications, design documents, analyzing and fixing issues reported by test team as well customers.
• Supporting test team in preparing comprehensive test cases to ensure that the desired functionality is achieved as planned during development etc.
• 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐝: C/C++, gdb, dbx, Unix/Linux Internals, Sybase, Database, Backup and Recovery, Compression, Encryption, File System, Tape, Disk.

Nov 2000 – Aug 2003 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for the design and development of a bunch of products from scratch.
• Involved in designing functional specifications, design documents, analyzing and fixing issues reported by test team as well as customers.
• Supporting test team in preparing comprehensive test cases to ensure that the desired functionality is achieved as planned during development etc.
• 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐝: Visual Basic 6.0, Windows, C, gdb, Oracle 8, Smart Card, Pro*C.