Nara A.

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States25 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in distributed systems and observability.
Led significant cost-saving initiatives at Netflix.
Proven track record in cloud infrastructure and DevOps.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure and observability.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsObservabilityCloud ComputingDevopsProduct DevelopmentIt AutomationSoftware Development

Other Skills

Distributed TracingInfrastructureSite ReliabilityContinuous deliveryBackend platformBig DataData modelingArchitectureDesignDevelopmentFrameworksWidgetsAdd-on toolsPortingOpenZipkin

About

Engineer and entrepreneur, with lots of passion for technology and care about solving real problems in a simple, understandable way.

Experience

25 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs

Current Experience

Netflix

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

Leading distributed tracing for Netflix. Building a cutting-edge telemetry platform - Observability Data Lake, working alongside stunning colleagues at Netflix.
Leading the platform effort to measure how much a feature would cost in production and save millions of dollars for Netflix.

Distributed TracingObservabilityCloud ComputingDistributed Systems

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2017 – Oct 2023 · 6 yrs 4 mos

Leading the development of distributed tracing at Netflix.

Distributed TracingDistributed Systems

Thredup.com

Lead Engineer - Infrastructure

Aug 2016 – May 2017 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Infrastructure, Site Reliability, Continuous delivery, Platforms and Architecture.
Defined the roadmap for managing their Cloud Infrastructure
Hired local and remote Infrastructure engineering team
Identified and evaluated Open Source/SaaS/PaaS products
Designed and developed automation for Cloud provisioning and monitoring
Supported the entire engineering organization for Infra needs
Paved the path for embracing DevOps culture

InfrastructureSite ReliabilityContinuous deliveryCloud ComputingDevOps

Lightbend, inc.

Founding Engineer at OpsClarity

Mar 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Sunnyvale

OpsClarity got acquired by Lightbend.
Engineer #2. Lead several backend platform and infrastructure projects from the initial days. More about OpsClarity:
OpsClarity is transforming modern software operations with data-science-driven monitoring solutions that help today’s DevOps teams continuously visualize, understand, and troubleshoot performance of their rapidly changing web-scale application environments. Built by alumni from Yahoo, eBay, Facebook, Twitter and Google, the OpsClarity Intelligent Operations Platform is the only solution that can dynamically adapt to, and learn, every component of a company’s applications and infrastructure, and extract key insights needed to maximize operational speed and agility. OpsClarity is privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.

Backend platformInfrastructureDevOps

Helios it infra solutions pvt ltd

Co-founder

Aug 2011 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore, India

Didn't work for this company. Was only an investor.

Ebay

Member of Technical Staff

May 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Software design and development of projects related to Cloud Computing and Big Data in the Platform & Infrastructure Engineering group.

Cloud ComputingBig Data

Bmc software

2 roles

Senior Product Developer

Nov 2010 – May 2011 · 6 mos

Data modeling lead for BMC Atrium CMDB product line.

Data modelingProduct Development

Consultant

Jan 2004 – Oct 2010 · 6 yrs 9 mos

Architecture, design and development of Marimba (now BMC BladeLogic Client Automation), a desktop IT automation platform. Worked on releases from 6.0.3 through 8.1.0.

ArchitectureDesignDevelopmentIT Automation

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Solution Architect

Jan 2004 – Oct 2010 · 6 yrs 9 mos

Architecture, design and development of Marimba (now BMC BladeLogic Client Automation), a desktop IT automation platform. Worked on releases from 6.0.3 through 8.1.0.

FrameworksWidgetsSoftware Development