Tushar Raut — Co-Founder

During my tenure as the Founding Engineer at LightBeam.AI, I seamlessly played diverse roles, showcasing versatility and adaptability. My responsibilities extended beyond technical domains to encompass customer engagement, proof of concepts (PoCs), and comprehensive management of all customer communications. This entailed a deep understanding of client use cases and overseeing feature delivery, ensuring alignment with customer expectations and business objectives. Furthermore, my experience spans across multiple technologies, where I've consistently demonstrated proficiency in driving product development initiatives. At LightBeam.AI and in previous startup endeavors, I spearheaded various projects, contributing to the end-to-end delivery of features from initial conception to implementation. This hands-on involvement underscored my ability to navigate complex challenges and deliver innovative solutions that meet both technical requirements and customer needs. By leveraging my background in engineering and multifaceted experience in customer-facing roles, I have honed a unique skill set that enables me to bridge technical expertise with effective communication and strategic planning. This amalgamation has been pivotal in driving successful outcomes and fostering enduring client relationships throughout my career. GitHub: https://github.com/tusharrautOO7 Blogs: https://portworx.com/scaling-elasticsearch-kubernetes-portworx-data-platform/ https://www.ashnik.com/unify-your-enterprise-logging-layer-using-elk/ Attached Certifications.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing specialist with a focus on security and automation.

Experience: 8 yrs 9 mos

Skills

Cloud Computing & Architecture
Application Security
Automation
Data Management
Full Stack Development
Database Management
Software Development

Career Highlights

Proven expertise in application security and cloud architecture.
Led end-to-end product development initiatives in startups.
Strong ability to bridge technical and customer-facing roles.

Work Experience

LightBeam.ai

Founding Engineer (3 yrs 8 mos)

Portworx

Member Of Technical Staff (2 yrs 1 mo)

Ashnik Pte Ltd

Full Stack Developer (9 mos)

Ignite Scalearc (Ignite Technologies acquires Scalearc)

Member Of Technical Staff - II (6 mos)

Member Of Technical Staff - I (1 yr)

ScaleArc

Software Development Intern (9 mos)

C-DAC (Formerly NCST)

Software Development Project Intern (9 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at Pune Institute of Computer Technology

Diploma in Information Technology at Vidya Pratishthan's Polytechnic College, Indapur

Tushar Raut

Co-Founder

India8 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven expertise in application security and cloud architecture.
Led end-to-end product development initiatives in startups.
Strong ability to bridge technical and customer-facing roles.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing specialist with a focus on security and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud Computing & ArchitectureApplication SecurityAutomationData ManagementFull Stack DevelopmentDatabase ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

AWSAmazon EKSAnsibleApplication Security ArchitectureArchitectural DesignAuthentication and AuthorizationAzureAzure ADBash scriptingC++CISOCloud DevelopmentCode scanningCompliance & Audit ManagementContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

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Experience

8 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 6 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Lightbeam.ai

Founding Engineer

Dec 2020 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Summary:
As a founding engineer, I helped build and architect the product from the ground up with a focus on core service implementation and application packaging. I engaged with customers through PoCs, aligned product features with their needs, and enabled secure deployments by following best practices and automating cluster management.
Development:
Designed and implemented core services, frameworks, and monitoring solutions.
Packaged the application stack deployment with Helm Charts.
Implemented CI/CD pipelines for streamlined delivery.
Managed customer deployments and Kubernetes clusters.
Built a serviceability and diagnostics framework for cluster health assessment.
Security Architect:
Developed, documented, and implemented security best practices for provisioning infrastructure to deploy the LightBeam stack across public and private cloud environments.
Integrated security scanning into the CI pipeline to automatically detect and report CVEs.
Designed and implemented a triage and remediation process to fix identified CVEs efficiently.
Conducted security reviews of product features, ensuring secure design and implementation.
Looked in developing, assessing, and enforcing SOC 2 policies, conducting access control reviews and risk assessments, and ensuring secure backup and restoration of products. Also, built and executed incident response plans, managed user and access permissions across IT systems and cloud providers, and collaborated with vendors on penetration testing to strengthen application security.
Customer, Partner & Engineering:
Conducted PoCs, customer deployments, and upgrades.
Established sandboxes for customer testing.
Facilitated coordination between Engineering and Customer Success teams.
Worked with partners in India and Canada, provided feature overviews, conducted demonstrations, and managed application deployment in their environment.

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Portworx

Member Of Technical Staff

Nov 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Pune Area, India

Automation for Application and Cluster Deployments:
Utilizing Go Lang, Terraform, and Ansible to automate deployments across a range of container orchestrators including Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Nomad, Rancher, DCOS D2IQ, Kubernetes Managed Services like GKE, IKS, EKS, PKS, and Openshift.
DCOS Framework Development with Persistent Storage Support:
Developing DCOS frameworks with persistent storage support for key applications such as Elastic search, Apache Nifi, Jupyterlab, Kafka, and Cassandra.
Centralized Logging and Data Storage Platform:
Implementing a centralized logging and data storage platform featuring Portworx storage, Elasticsearch Cluster with Kibana, Fluentd and Fluentbit for log collection and aggregation, ETCD cluster with persistent kvdb store, and Consul and Vault for secrets management.
Centralized Metrics/Resource Monitoring:
Utilizing Prometheus, Cortex, and Grafana for centralized metrics and resource monitoring.
Additional Development Tasks:
Building new Helm charts, creating Kubernetes operators using operator-sdk and Go lang, and developing utilities/jobs using the Kubernetes python client.

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Ashnik pte ltd

Full Stack Developer

Feb 2018 – Nov 2018 · 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Project 1: Notification System
Utilized AWS SNS service for notifications.
Developed RESTful APIs using the Django framework.
Implemented a Scheduler using Redis as a queuing mechanism.
Project 2: Automation of Data Pipeline for Insurance Company in Singapore
Deployed and configured a 5+ node ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) cluster for infrastructure and application monitoring.
Set up Logstash and Kibana, including SSL/TLS setup and LDAP configuration for Kibana access.
Implemented role-based access control for security.
Utilized Ansible for automating Beats installation and configuration for data sources.
Project 3: Automation of Data Pipeline for Core Banking Platform in India
Set up a 5+ node ELK cluster for infrastructure and application monitoring.
Configured Logstash and Kibana, with high availability using keepalived.
Implemented dashboarding and alerting via Slack and Gmail.
Utilized Python and Grok filters for data processing, along with reporting and machine learning jobs.
Implemented role-based access control for security and used Ansible for Beats installation and configuration automation.

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Ignite scalearc (ignite technologies acquires scalearc)

2 roles

Member Of Technical Staff - II

Promoted

Jul 2017 – Jan 2018 · 6 mos · Pune Area, India

Database Load Generators:
1. Database(MySQL and SQL Server) Load generators(Core are developed in C & Java).
2. Developed django framework(Models, Rest API's).
3. Written python services(daemons) to monitor, schedule and process multiple user requests for standalone and HA pair(Primary/Secondary or Multiple Nodes) systems.
Basics about setup and general logs processing with visualization using ELK(Elastic Logstash and Kibana).
Basics about docker and container.
Deployed django application within container on different platforms(Ubuntu, CentOS, Windows).
Docker Hub Link : https://hub.docker.com/r/tusharraut/sample_django_web_app/

MySQLSQL ServerDjangoPythonELKDatabase Management

Member Of Technical Staff - I

Jun 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr · Pune Area, India

Network Traffic Analyzer :
1. Developed core engine for MySQL and TDS protocol parser using Python and Tshark utility.
2. Developed Django framework as part of product which has features like capture network traffic as well as upload the network traffic captured in customer environment and analyze that traffic and generate reports with meaningful information which helps to team at better level.
3. Django Rest APIs and Python Services with Redis database.
4. Package(RPM's) and Images(XVA, OVA) creation/testing and deployment.
5. Capturing and understanding network traffic using wireshark on windows and Linux.
Log Analyzer Tool :
1. Implemented framework( In Django) as part of product which has following features:
a) Upload log data as a single or compressed file.
b) Analyze file in fast manner and generates reports(Individual and Complete Report).
c) View and Download Analysis reports.
2. Package(RPM's) and Images(XVA, OVA) creation/testing and deployment.

PythonDjangoRedisSoftware Development

Scalearc

Software Development Intern

Aug 2015 – May 2016 · 9 mos · Pune Area, India

1. Log Parser(Analysis Tool) using Python.
2. MySQL and TDS(SQL Server) Database Protocol, Capturing & understanding the traffic network(wire) flow in depth .
3. Hands-on in setting up Database Terminologies:
a) MySQL Replication setup (Master-Slave)
b) AlwaysOn in SQL Server
4. Virtualization (XEN, Vmware) Setting up VM's with different operating systems.

PythonMySQLTDS

C-dac (formerly ncst)

Software Development Project Intern

Aug 2015 – May 2016 · 9 mos · Pune Area, India

Project Name: Automatic Table Detection and Retention from Scanned Document Images
It is an open research project based on image processing and machine learning, basically to detect and retain table structures from scanned document images.
Used Technologies : C++ with QT, Python, OpenCV

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