Jul 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led the DevOps and SRE team at Recko, a Fin-Tech startup, we handle large volume of financial transactions data. Our team had built and manage the production platform which is performant, reliable, secure and compliant (PCI, SOC2). Migrated the monolith infrastructure to Kubernetes on AWS EKS. Contributed technically along with managerial.
• Led the infra migration from monolith to microservices (Kubernetes on AWS EKS)
• Planning, executing and optimising:
• Platform reliability, Scaling, Monitoring, Logging, Tracing, Deployment, Infrastructure as code.
• Always thrive to identify repeatable/error prone patterns and automate them
• Enabled seamless deployment and config management with CICD and GitOps (ArgoCD)
• Helped dev team with containerising apps: review reliability, scalability and security aspects
• Drive initiatives to improve: cost reduction, infra security, developer productivity
• Standardised and streamlined the operational processes/tools for change management
• Define SLO/SLI, measure, monitor and review with stakeholders
• Review oncall duties and alerts/incidents; reduce the toil and RCA for incidents
• Hiring, coaching the DevOps engineers in the team, help with technical guidance

Jun 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Joined as one of the founding SRE, built & lead the team.
• Contributions:
• Tech Lead for the SRE team, joined as one of the first SREs, built and grown the team of 5.
• Building, automating and maintaining infrastructure for highly distributed environments in AWS across multiple regions.
• Design monitoring and alerting solutions (CollectD, SignalFx, Prometheus, ELK, NewRelic)
• Deployments with Kubernetes, Chef, Jenkins
• Cloud cost optimization (AWS, GCP)
• Tools Automation for various purpose (python, shell)
• Cross-team collaboration with security, QA and dev teams
• Troubleshooting in Linux systems and application issues
• Disaster recovery plans and tests
• Incident management
• Also part of 16X7 oncall

Aug 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

Jul 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• DevOps in Flipkart Ads team
• Had built a scalable production environment on the KVMs
• Supporting tooling that allows the developers to build and deploy seamlessly with Ansible
• Designed efficient monitoring and alerting solutions for monitoring critical JVM app & system metrics
• Installed, Configured and Managed Storm, Aerospike(NoSQL), MySQL, OpenTSDB clusters with Ansible
• Scripting and automation of mundane tasks to reduce manual intervention with Shell and Python scripts
• Performance tuning of HAproxy(Load balancers) to scale high qps
• Monitoring and ensuring system uptime and performance metrics for system and app metrics (using Nagios, CollectD, Graphite cluster, OpenTSDB)
• As part of 16x7 oncall team, support Linux multi-tier infrastructure in production to ensure high availability availability along with DR plans to ensure business continuity
• Managed small scale AWS cluster(EC2, S3), Route 53

Nov 2013 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

Nov 2011 – Nov 2013 · 2 yrs · Bangalore