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Head of DevOps/DevSecOps/SRE

NimbleEdge Inc.

Feb 2022 - May 2024 (2 years 4 months)

• Part of founding team and joined at seed stage. NimbleEdge is into Edge Computing and has developed an On-Device ML Platform to distribute ML models on-demand at scale to edge mobile devices, run training and inferences on-device to bring unique hyper-personalization experience to users which will also uplift revenue stream of the customers. • Involved from day-1 product development to onboarding very first customer who committed $1.2m revenue for the company per annum. The maximum scale we saw for first fantasy gaming client are 350k RPM for backend model serving service and 1m RPM log ingestion from edge mobile devices with a DAU of 5m devices. • Developed hosting strategy in AWS and Azure with the backend throughput scale tested at

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Head of DevOps/DevSecOps/SRE

Cyware India,

May 2021 - Sep 2021 (5 months)

• Transitioned Cyware's legacy and traditional product and deployment architecture to on-demand multi-tenant cloud onboarding in AWS. • Cutdown customer onboarding time from 3 days to hours with new cloud platform and deployment time from few hours to minutes with GitOps CI/CD pipeline. • Architected metric-driven Cyware Observability Platform using FOSS MELT stack and ran at scale. • Secured SOC2 Type 2 certification for Cyware Cloud Hosting Platform. • Optimized cloud cost in AWS and introduced FinOps discipline among broader teams to follow. • Managed a distributed team of 6 SRE's across India and the US.

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Head of DevOps/DevSecOps/SRE

Embibe India,

Apr 2019 - Apr 2021 (2 years 1 month)

• Optimized and reduced AWS cloud cost from $148k to $42k in 5 months. • Built a hybrid-cloud strategy for Azure migration. • Introduced one touch deployments using Jenkins to EKS/AKS K8s clusters in AWS and Azure. • Improved backend API throughput from 500 RPS to 2000 RPS and maintained five nines uptime. • Tightened the compliance posture of cloud infrastructure with frequent VAPT assessments and implemented 24/7 monitoring and reporting through Cloud Command Center SRE's on-call rotation. • Implemented observability stack in New Relic and AppDynamics for metrics and traces and ELK stack for centralized logging and SIEM reporting. • Effectively managed a team of 14 Platform, Application and Command Center SRE's with zero attrition.

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Staff SRE

FireEye Cybersecurity India,

Jul 2013 - Apr 2019 (5 years 10 months)

• Managed and run-at-scale Email Threat Prevention (ETP) cloud offering in private (VMware vSphere based in-house cloud) and hybrid public cloud (AWS, OCI, and Azure). • Was part of ETP Cloud (Now Trellix Email Security) at inception and grew the offering from ground up to $70 million in quarterly earnings. • Designed, architected, and implemented centralized log aggregation in private and public clouds using ELK stack, Redis, and F5 hardware load balancers in VMware vSphere private cloud. The rate of log ingestion was 4 billion messages a day, 50K RPS approximately. • Designed, architected, implemented, and run-at-scale Elasticsearch and Percona MySQL (Galera-based) clusters across active-passive datacenters for failover, increasing SLA cl

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Senior Systems Engineer

Intuit India

Jan 2010 - Jul 2013 (3 years 7 months)

• Was part of Intuit Hosting Platform (IHP) team, an in-house VMware vSphere and vCAC-based self-service private cloud offering to host Intuit's product suite. • Provided operational support and break fix issues in IHP, VMware vCenter, ESXi, Virtuozzo, OVM, RHEL and Windows systems. • Manage NetApp NAS filers and assist in automated storage-as-a-service for VMware ESXi VMs. • Ran V2V live migrations from type-2 hypervisors (Virtuozzo and OVM) to VMware vCenter farms using VMware Converter. • Automate and continuous delivery of release deployments in Jenkins and Chef. • Participate in on-call rotations and tighten the monitoring and alerting posture.

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Linux Systems Administrator

OracleIndiaPvtLimited,Bengaluru,Karnataka

Jul 2007 - Dec 2009 (2 years 6 months)

• Was part of Oracle OnDemand (OOD) BreakFix team, a managed cloud offering for Oracle E-business Suite. Responsible for customer onboarding, provisioning and 24/7 uptime support for production systems. • Provided operational support and break fix for RHEL, Solaris, Oracle DB, Oracle Applications and NetApp NAS filers. • Support DR and failovers in active-passive datacenters.

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Linux Systems Administrator

CiscoIndia

Apr 2006 - Jun 2007 (1 year 3 months)

• Was part of Global Technical Response Team (GTRC), helping in resolving issues in internal developer hosting services. • Provided support for in-house teams on RedHat, Cisco Enterprise Linux, Solaris servers and workstations and NetApp filers. • OS Baselines and hardening as per Cisco InfoSec policies and provide troubleshooting support for FTP, NFS, Samba, NIS, NIS+ and TFTP.

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Network Engineer

Wipro Infotech

Apr 2006 - Jun 2007 (1 year 3 months)

• Was part of Central Network Operations Center (NOC), responsible for managing Cisco routers, switches, monitoring server systems, automate provisioning and deployments and development and up keeping of NOC internal website. • Install, manage, monitor and support routers, switches, PacketShaper, VPN Concentrator, Cisco VoIP CallManager, NMIS and PRTG. • Provide 24/7 Level-1/2 troubleshooting support and on-call services for NOC network servers running RHEL 3/Fedora Core/Solaris 8.

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