Oct 2015 – Nov 2023 · 8 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

• Supporting the development and customer engagements of LinkedIn's next-generation distributed system – Databus(https://github.com/linkedin/databus)
• Work closely with Databus development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability" in mind
• Assist in restoring stability to services during site critical issues
• Working with LinkedIn's extensive monitoring, writing custom monitoring services when necessary
• Drive or participate in technical design and operational acceptance exercises for new services with Engineering and SRE teams
• Building knowledge base and documentation for day to day operational tasks for the team

Dec 2012 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

Nov 2009 – Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore, India

• User and group administration on Linux/Solaris servers
• Point of contact for all TimeInc Websites issues which have large level of impact around the world.
• Creating , updating , removing TimeInc Domain names - DNS using bind
• Coordinating with other teams during launch/deployment
• Configuring virtual hosts on Apache web server
• Deploying and launching templates in QA and PROD environment using Vignette Development Center
• Perl and UNIX scripting, automating jobs.
• Redirecting URL’s in apache web server
• Troubleshooting/Working on alerts from Keynote, Nagios, Proactive Net, Sitescope
• Working on DNS, NFS, TCP/IP and other Internet protocols in Linux/Solaris
• Understanding of routers, switches, and have dealt with network debugging tools to check the trace routes, packet loss, TCP dumps and relate it to the applications impact

Nov 2007 – Nov 2009 · 2 yrs · Banglaore, India

• Managing user and sudo accounts on Linux/FreeBSD servers
• Monitoring disk space, cpu and memory usage on all servers
• Troubleshooting all production Linux servers/network devices
• Monitoring Yahoo servers and network using monitoring tool like netcool, gomez, Argus, nagios, MRTG etc.
• Taking individual responsibility for resolving issues reported to the NOC from multiple sources including trouble tickets, phone calls, IMs and automated alerts
• Resolving critical system issue, including notification, coordination and dispatch of individuals from various functional groups within the organization

Nov 2006 – Nov 2007 · 1 yr · Bangalore, India

• Crash recovery, OS reloading and restoring data from backups
• Perform software builds like kernel compilation, Apache/PHP recompilation and other software installation according to customer requirement.
• Resolve issues related to web, mail or ftp via email through ticketing system (RT)
• Regularly updating the patches for Linux servers
• Server hardening for Linux Servers.
• Monitoring server performance and disk space using shell scripts
• Installing and configuring Raid Controller cards and IPMI cards
• Building Verismo server operating system using LFS (Linux from Scratch)
• RAID & LVM: Creating and maintaining Raid and Lvm.

Aug 2005 – Nov 2006 · 1 yr 3 mos · Net Devices India Private Ltd

• Installing, Configuring & Administering DNS, DHCP & Mail Server for Production and QA
• Installing, Configuring & Administering Web Server (Apache) & FTP for Production and QA
• Managing Network systems , Servers uptime
• Maintenance of logs / files / documentation
• Troubleshooting Linux Desktops/Servers
• Backup /Restore - Daily / weekly / monthly
• Managing user accounts
• OS reloading and restoring data from backups