Balaji Narayanan Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Sunnyvale, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

Sunnyvale, CA, US

- Architect for building and scaling the Yahoo’s internal Infrastructure as a Service(Iaas) offering powered by OpenStack.- Scaled the infrastructure to 100K+ cores and a significant baremetal footprint, running production workloads seamlessly.- Reduced significant CapEx overruns by building a capacity model to predict and augment capacity.- Achieved.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

- Architect for the Yahoo Hadoop Grid team, responsible for capacity planning, management and optimum utilization of compute resources across clusters.- Responsible for evaluating hardware configurations, networking, deployment topologies, define strategy and roadmap for Hadoop Deployments. - Designed, planned and executed a Tech Refresh of retiring 8K.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

- Service Engineering Architect for the Sponsored Search Migration from Yahoo! to Microsoft. Responsible for Architecture, Design, Capacity, Sizing, Availability and Performance of the Advertiser Migration Engine to transfer advertiser data from Yahoo! systems to Microsoft’s Ad Center. - Lead a virtual team of Architects in designing a tool called End to.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

- Manage the Service Engineering Team for Platform Group in Bangalore, responsible for 12 X 7 support for Membership, Social and Geo Platforms as part of the global team. - Built a high performing team of 15+ engineers that took ownership of several deliverables for key internal platforms. - Mentor, lead, train and guide the team in day to day operations.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

- Implementation of a corporate wide Intranet Portal running on IBM WebSphere Application Server with Yahoo - TIBCO Portal Builder for personalization with a user base of 150,000. - Implementation of the Honeywell Corporate Internet Site (http://www.honeywell.com) for the Unified Web Strategy (UWS) Framework. Coordination with various ASP's for System.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

- Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of HP-UX servers with custom images / application patches, hardware upgrades, kernel tuning, monitoring, High Availability, Cluster Configuration with HP's MC/SG software, NIS / NFS/ Automounter.- Deputed to Nokia Networks, Finland for a period of one month for installation and troubleshooting installation.

Zurich, ZH, CH

- Responsible for designing and implementing a Load Rack Computer (LRC) for automation of loading petroleum products with tank trucks and rails for the LPG Import / Export Facility of Indian Oil Petronas Limited, Haldia, India. Responsibilities included System Design, Functional Design Specification, Customer Requirement Specification, System Test Plan and.