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Last9 Inc, Bangalore (Remote) — Site Reliability Engineer¶
JAN 2023 - FEB 2025
- Rewrote backend infrastructure to support rack-aware deployments.
- reduced day-2 stateful cluster scaling operations from 12 hours to 2 hours.
- Increased system reliability through improved fault isolation.
- Simplified architecture reduced the complexity of day-1 and day-2 operations.
- Ran the TSDB with three-9s availability in multiple regions across 9 deployments ingesting 1.5 Billion time-series/min.
- Migrated VMs to Kubernetes (EKS) without breaching SLA.
- Managed inter-region data-center migration (>30TB data) with no SLA breach.
- Developed load-testing and performance analysis tool for capacity planning, stress testing and validation of builds.
- Built a self-serve automation platform reducing deployment time from 60 minutes to 5 minutes.
Druva Data Solutions, Pune — Software Engineer (Druva Labs)¶
JAN 2021 - DEC 2022
- Kubernetes protection project:
- Integrated Fluent-bit based observability for one-click Helm install.
- Wrote custom language on top of Go-templates to modify k8s charts on the control-plane
- Wrote Cypress tests for k8s service-catalog bridge API, integrated with AWS CodeBuild.
- Built GitLab pipelines for Docker images and Helm charts.
- VMDK analysis:
- Wrote abstraction over VDDK-Lib ensuring thread-safety and internal GoLang standards compliance.
- Developed tests to simulate block reads/writes and detect corruption upon failure.
Shaadi.com, Mumbai — Senior DevOps Engineer¶
JULY 2019 - JAN 2021
- Sole maintainer of container platform with 300+ production nodes.
- Reduced cluster scaling time from 15 mins to <5 mins.
- Cut cluster costs by 20% via tuning, optimization, and architecture redesign.
- Onboarded 4 legacy applications to ECS, building custom dev tooling.
- Deployed SolrCloud Cluster with ZooKeeper and persistent EBS volumes.
- Migrated live Redis to Redis Labs with zero downtime.
Nexsales Solutions, Mumbai — Junior DevOps Engineer¶
AUGUST 2018 - JULY 2019
- Used Terraform, Packer, and Ansible on GCP for infra maintenance.
- Performed performance optimization on Riak DB and JVM.
- Automated backup/restore for Riak, reducing time from 1 day to 2 hours.
- Built Python-based data cleaning tool—40% faster, with higher accuracy.
- Created onboarding systems (setup scripts, dev environments).
sketchnote.co, Remote — DevOps Consultant¶
MAY 2022 - DEC 2022
- Reviewed system design and architecture.
- Built DevOps ecosystem, including CI/CD pipelines and environments.
- Setup production and staging as per best practices.
- Authored DevOps operations guidelines and conducted training during handover.
Azim Premji Foundation, Bangalore — Technical Consultant¶
APRIL 2017 - SEPTEMBER 2017
- Created and led Linux training for content dev team.
- Researched and taught FOSS tools for tech-enabled education.
- Built Linux From Scratch as an educational exercise.
Free Software Movement Karnataka, Bangalore — Sysadmin Volunteer¶
MAY 2016 - JAN 2021
- Maintained FSMK IT infra: website, CI/CD, certificates, email server, mailing lists.
- Migrated email and mailing list services.
- Participated in multiple training camps, mentoring on OS, Linux, Sysadmin, and Networking.