Jun 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Feb 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Lead a team of 6 senior engineers to provide cloud based tech infrastructure solutions to the firm.
• Plan the yearly project roadmap with the right estimates, milestones and deadlines for the infrastructure team.
• Provide technical guidance to the team members to help them stay on schedule with their deliverables.
• Design and implement the Linux email delivery infrastructure for performance and resilience.
• Build, manage and upgrade the firm’s critical software stack such as Perl, Python, Tomcat, System packages/APIs/libraries, E-mail, DNS, Kerberos, Syslog.
• Prevent loss, modification, or misuse of customer data by outlining the security perimeter and ensure that enough controls are in place to detect the breach of the perimeter.
• Conduct technical presentations, training sessions for the new staff and existing team members to enhance their skills and maximize team performance.
• Recruit highly talented individuals for various technical positions across the firm.

Jul 2015 – Jan 2016 · 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Build a cloud (Amazon Web Services) based tech infrastructure from scratch for a new business.
• Migrate users, software, applications, databases, source code repositories from an on-premise infrastructure to the cloud.
• Maintain and secure the firm's cloud based infrastructure, primarily involving core technologies like Linux, Windows, storage, security and networking.
• Research, propose and implement new solutions that will help optimize the IT infrastructure from both performance and cost perspective.
• Propose, design and engineer new cloud based infrastructure as per the customers’ requirements.
• Minimize the risk of Linux, Windows, networking and other system failures.
• Handle the escalation for the critical infrastructure issues and liaise with QA / Development teams to provide a root cause analysis/work around/resolution.
• Identify the redundant task in the team and automate them to save productive time.
• Guide and assist other technical teams in the firm to design and estimate their projects accurately from infrastructure perspective.

Jul 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Design and implement the Linux and data storage infrastructure for the new institutional brokerage business in Mumbai, India.
• Setup all applications instrumental in running the business for the new institutional brokerage business.
• Conduct a feasibility study of migrating business critical application to Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud offering from the IT infrastructure endpoint.
• Act as an IT infrastructure consultant for the other technical teams in the firm to help them design and estimate their projects accurately.
• Principal architect and developer of a propriety web application deployment software that runs on the Linux cluster.
• Author of the SQL refresh database automation which loads data from production servers and unloads to the development servers.
• Design and maintain the firm’s perimeter email infrastructure running on Proofpoint protection server, sendmail, procmail and milter protocol.
• Recruit highly talented individuals for various technical positions across the firm.

Feb 2010 – Jul 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Design the DR strategies for UNIX/Linux/Database infrastructure and participate in the annual firm-wide DR drill.
• Co-architect and develop software package management framework for Solaris and Linux Infrastructure.
• Act as a subject matter expert in the data security domain, covering technologies like Kerberos, OpenSSL, SSH, GNUPG, Linux PAM and Firewalls.
• Conduct technical presentations, training sessions for the new staff and other team members to enhance their skills and maximize team performance.

Nov 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Handle global escalation relating to the firm’s critical UNIX/Linux infrastructure, data storage, data security, web applications and compute clusters running on Sun Grid Engine and IBM LSF.
• Deploy and maintain Perl, Python, libraries and other software stack in the firm.
• Manage business critical Sybase database servers running on UNIX and perform their periodic upgrades.
• Migrate the software repository from 32 bit to 64-bit by recompiling them on 3 different processor architectures.
• Migrate the firm’s UNIX infrastructure from Solaris 8 to Solaris 10 and from Sun sparc to x86 architecture at a global scale.
• Propose enhancements, improvements and optimizations in the infrastructure primarily in the areas of UNIX/Linux, data storage, data security.
• Automate the repetitive tasks with Shell, Perl and Python scripting to reduce the manual toil.
• Minimize the risk of UNIX/Linux and other system failures and ensure sufficient safeguarding of the data travelling on the network and/or at rest.

Jul 2007 – Nov 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• Automating the data transmission processes by scripting the interactive SFTP sessions.
• Developing NDM scripts to help file transfer between mainframe and Unix systems.
• Enhancements in existing scripts to meet new transmission requirements.
• Managing and supporting the Gentran application Suite (sterling commerce).
• Verifying/updating the data transmission setups done in Oracle Database.
• Gathering technical requirements from Project Managers and feeding to transmission repository.
• Ensure a seamless wing-to-wing data transmission from third parties to customer or vice versa.
• Performing periodic checks to ensure encryption and security standards used by customer are compliant to Industry standards.
• Fixing the data transmission issues resulting from transmission errors, encryption or incorrect setup.

May 2006 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Identifying redundant tasks in the division and automate them to save productive time.
• Controlling the production down issues and liaising with QA / Development Teams to provide resolutions /workarounds to clients.
• Conducting/delivering training for the new joinees and other technical teams on need basis

May 2005 – Apr 2006 · 11 mos

• Addressing technical issues pertaining to the organization's Linux infrastructure, primarily related to performance bottlenecks.
• Interfacing with international clients on calls regarding technical issues.
• Managing and upgrading the firms critical business infrastructure such as email, webservers, Firewall, DNS, Syslog.
• Minimizing the risk of Unix/Linux or other systems failures.
• Ensuring the safeguarding of information in networks and the protection of the supporting infrastructure.
• Preventing loss, modification or misuse of user data in application systems.
• Development for automated SFTP transmissions, backups and other maintenance activities.
• Configuring and maintaining Unix Firewalls (ipchains, iptables, ipfilter)
• Encrypting and Decrypting Data using GPG-PGP encryption tools.
• Vulnerability scanning for Linux using Nessus and Port scanner Nmap.

Feb 2005 – Apr 2005 · 2 mos

• Understanding organization's linux/unix and network infrastructure.
• Understanding the coordination & communication required with the senior management and stake holders on key critical issues