I am the man who arranges the blocks, that descend up on me from up above!They come down and I spin them around,till they fit in the ground like hand in glove!

- Worked on development of a deduplicating filesystem based on ext2/ext3 kernel module in Linux. The ext2 filesystem was modified to perform deduplication of incoming data to eliminate redundant block writes and improve performance of virtual machines by 500%. - Development of features and bug fixing on 'Atlantis ILIO', which is a distributed server application to manage and enhance the performance of virtual machine disk images. This product is implemented in python. - Worked on converting ILIO from a centralized architecture to a distributed architecture to support larger scale of users and workload. - Built a Linux live-cd based installer for ILIO. This involved development of modules for setting up VMware ESX server and configuration of virtual machines and applications. The installer was built as a python application which itself ran on a virtual machine. - Wrote a Windows MFC application to monitor and report health of Virtual Machines. This application runs on user virtual machines and responds to commands sent over a TCP/IP socket. - Implemented a high availability solution for failover of services provided by ILIO using heartbeat, DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) and OCFS2 (Oracle Clustered File System)

- Development and maintenance of the deepOfix Mail Server, a GNU/Linux distribution built to run email services. - Rebuilt the entire installer and package set to make the entire system more manageable and upgradable. - Fixed bugs and added features to various open source software used by the product. and contributed them up-stream. - Headed the support team, comprising four people to provide incident support and customizations for the above product and allied services. Responsible for over 200 servers in my support role. - Wrote patches for internal use for software such as Qmail, Dovecot, etc. - Designed and comissioned custom email server architectures as per requirements of customers.

- Worked as an on-site engineer performing Systems Administration tasks, first at EthicSoft, Jayanagar in Bangalore and then at Resolve India, a division of Tally Solutions. - At EthicSoft, was responsible for the corporate LAN, including email services, firewalls, and the test servers for various projects at the company. - Implemented a version control system using CVS. Created an automated commit-compile-build-deploy system on the above test servers. Consulted on development of a firewall/gateway security appliance for one of the projects at EthicSoft. - At Resolve India, I was responsible for the maintenance of the LAN, Windows based terminal servers, firewall, email servers etc, as a Systems Administrator.