Education
Bachelor of Engineering,
Electronics & Telecommunication
University of Mumbai
GPA: 3.5/4.0
Courses - Wireless Networks, Mobile Communication Systems, Computer Communication Networks & Computer Programming
Master of Engineering,
Electrical Engineering
San Jose State University
GPA: 3.6/4.0
Courses - Data Communication, Virtualization, Computer Networks, Network Security, Data Structures and Algorithms, VoIP & Network/Socket Programming
Experiences
Lucid Motors
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Newark, California
I work on the infrastructure that makes sense of the data sent back by our cars across the globe.
New skills gained - Atlantis, Argo, Helm Charts, Amazon EKS & RDS.
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
Vice President, Site Reliability Engineering
Menlo Park, California
Developed, administered and improved the Firm’s Consumer Wealth Management infrastructure that enables Apple Card, GM Card and Marcus.
New skills gained - Terraform, Ansible, BitBucket, Pivotal Cloud Foundary, Amazon ECS, ACM, ASM, Prometheus & Splunk.
Foursquare Labs, Inc.
Site Reliability Engineer
San Francisco, California
Was responsible for the entire infrastructure as part of the only SRE/Production team in the company. I helped shape the architecture, design and implementation of new and existing systems with the aim of enhancing their performance, reliability, efficiency, scalability and manageability.
New skills gained - Kubernetes, Apache Mesos, Apache Aurora, Chef, MongoDB, Kafka, Zookeeper, Memcached, Redis, Docker, Graphite, Grafana, Alertmanager, HAProxy, Nginx, CDNs, HBase, HFile, Amazon EC2, IAM, VPC, EMR, Route53 & S3.
Shasta Systems, Inc.
DevOps Engineer
San Jose, California
Turned data-centers to Private Cloud environments by installing OpenStack on Cisco and SuperMicro Hardware.
New skills gained - OpenStack, Hypervisors, VMs, PXE Booting, Firewalls, VLANs, ACLs, Puppet, Git, SSL/TLS, Hardware & Network provisioning.
Sycamore Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
Network and Communication Engineer
Mumbai, India
Architect & Design corporate building networks consisting of WiFi access points, modems, central servers, fiber-optic cables, switches and routers.
New skills gained - Linux OS, System Administration, Remote Login, Network Protocols, Network Design and Architecture, Switching & Routing.
Bhabha Atomic Research Center
Engineering Intern
Trombay, India
Accomplished a B.E final-year project that aimed to check the health of sensors inside a Nuclear Reactor using 'Non-contact Ultrasonic Transducers' connected to an industrial computer running Visual Basics.
New skills gained - C Programming & Visual Basics.
What do I Bring?
• 7+ yrs of experience architecting, managing & monitoring infrastructure for complex systems & services.
• A great leader and team-member. Helpful and fun to work with.
• Experience with infrastructure in Public Cloud & Private Data Center.
• Hands-on experience in various container technologies.
• Experience in Chef, Ansible & Terraform automation, & Python software development.
• In-Depth knowledge of Linux Internals & its fundamentals.
• Experience in managing, upgrading & scaling databases.
• Masters in Computer Networking.
• Strong knowledge & understanding of data structures & algorithms.
• Passionate about new technologies & always willing to enrich myself & others.
Certificates
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
The Linux Foundation
Credential ID - LF-a4ywbvbt3l
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
The Linux Foundation
Credential ID - LF-ldw4xx02rz
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (TF 003)
HashiCorp
Credential ID - e82f1553-4f82-45de-b6cf-9671182b90aa
Red Hat Delivery Specialist
Red Hat
Credential ID - 00560000004eIP4AAM
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Cisco
Certificate Verification No. - 418964173311GOUJ
Cisco Express Foundation for Field Engineers
Cisco
Cisco ID Number - CSCO12676045
Experienced SRE/Production Engineer
| Residence | United States |
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| Address | Menlo Park, California, 94025 |
| akki2790@gmail.com | |
| Phone | +1-408-466-8801 |
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Linux OS Administration 10 years
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Software development 8 years
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Configuration Management 7 years
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Infrastructure as Code 4 years
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Kubernetes 4 years
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NoSQL databases 5 years
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Pub-Sub systems 6 years
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Metrics and Monitoring 7 years
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