Feb 2024 – Oct 2024 · 8 mos · Remote

• Leading and Managing the Kubernetes and Network, Infra tooling and shared services teams comprising senior and principal infrastructure engineers.
• Contributed to leading and maintaining a modern revamped architecture comprising envoy API gateway, custom extension service and envoy plugin.
• Designed VM NAT stress testing architecture.
• Handled peak traffic and maintained vertical layer of infrastructure for disruption free service during sales like OTW

Sep 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

• Restructured the ELK stack
• Conducted Java runtime performance POCs using GraalVM, EPP, and Azul Prime Java Runtimes
• Implemented Redis Sentinel cluster

Sep 2021 – Mar 2022 · 6 mos · Remote

• Got introduced in the world of Crypto and Blockchain, Worked on reducing latency by introducing an
• Nginx caching layer before the Ruby on Rails monolith service.
• Worked on planning, architecting and POC for the custodial product as a cold wallet solution for
• Bitcoin and other currencies using Subzero and Ncipher HSMs.

Dec 2020 – Jul 2021 · 7 mos · Remote

• Built a real-time multiplayer Game https://rummymatrix.com from scratch and developed frontend
• and backend WebSocket based Game Engine using node.js and crafty.js; Also built a custom Game
• protocol so that it can be extended to game engines like Unity with the same codebase...
• Engineered a new card game called Trinity which is a fusion of Blackjack and Rummy.

Aug 2020 – Nov 2020 · 3 mos · Remote

• Work responsibility extended to internal IT like employees laptops, mobile devices and all the SaaS applications Gameskraft is using for building the business.

Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 · 2 mos · Remote

• Successfully Introduced a Company-wide security roadmap and re-architected AWS cloud hosting with best practices and deployed fault-tolerant Secret Management solution via Hashicorp Vault.
• Successfully migrated manual infrastructure provisioning to automated infrastructure provisioning through Hashicorp Terraform, Packer, Automox, Ansible, and custom Python tooling.
• Successfully deployed CI/CD via Continuity Engine consisting of three components Infra Engine, Integration Engine, and Deploy Engine.

Jan 2020 – May 2020 · 4 mos · Remote

• Three main products I was working on.
• 1) ThreeRopo. ( Centralised Virtual Currency whose value would be determined by Mining via Humans not Machines and a Centralized virtual bank controlling everything else.... "Ropo" is the currency name)
• 2) TreesOfLife. (Helping Humanity take better decisions through big data on Decision Trees filled by Real Humans)
• 3) ThreeWatcher (All the monitoring platforms needed to support the above two with multi-tenancy)
• Figured out that my tech skills need more experience for the Ideas I have. Putting it on the back burner for now.

Nov 2017 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Noida Area, India

• a) Reduced MTTR by 30% by developing a web application automating the majority of Operational work needed during incident management.
• b) Led the 4 member SRE team and executed or contributed to projects like TLS 1.0 deprecation, Secrets Migration to Vault and auto-remediation through SaltStack.

Nov 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr · Noida Area, India

• a) Increased the reliability and scalability of ELK stack by architecting the data pipeline with Kafka. This decreased ELK cluster downtime by 200%.
• b) Managed the 7-10 member DevOps team and decreased the onboarding time for engineers by 400% by automating User management through a Web control panel.

Jan 2014 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Noida Area, India

• a) Improved the search results latency by more than 80% by enhancing bloom-filter service to utilize swap as a secondary store for the in-memory data structure.
• b) Incorporated zero-downtime deployment using Pluggable Software availability detection for Katta service in Sumologic architecture.

May 2013 – Oct 2013 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• a) Initiated the effort of migrating metrics collection from Graphite to Opentsdb, this reduced our incidents to around 10% compared to previous architecture.

Feb 2009 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• a) Decreased the configuration error rate to 20% by implementing infrastructure configuration management through Puppet.
• b) Wrote a web interface for Ganglia which resulted in a 10x decline in the custom graphs creation latency by implementing a unique web command-line interface.
• c) Initiated and lead the team in automation efforts towards building a scalable SRE team. Grew the SRE team from 1 to 7 within the span of a year.

Oct 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

• Reduced the customer support backup requests completion latency by 80% by Complete automation of a new backup process in Perl.

Jul 2007 – Dec 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• a) Large scale system administration in collaboration with a team of highly talented engineers managing the infrastructure of more than 7k servers for Yahoo Ads.
• b) Improved in-house developed tools and automation frameworks in Perl/C. Handled Oncall for highly revenue critical Yahoo Search advertisement service.