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Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

* Manager in the Signals Intelligence team where we are driving the time to root cause issues and aiding users in triaging production incidents.* Manager in the Member Observability team where we are improving detection of client-side issues from web and mobile and creating observability experiences to aid in engineers debugging availability and performance regressions.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

* Supported the alerting, notifications, and auto-remediation infrastructure within the Monitoring Infrastructure team.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

* Founded the centralized caching team at LinkedIn* Decommissioned legacy Couchbase Community Edition clusters and migrated live production traffic to centralized Couchbase Enterprise Edition clusters* Built Python tooling to manage 100s of Couchbase clusters at scale* Built Python client libraries for Couchbase that wrapped the Python Couchbase SDK with LinkedIn-specific code and allowed interoperability with the LinkedIn Java Couchbase client library.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

* Supported LinkedIn Learning Team (2015-2017)* Founding member of the Caching as a Service Team (2017-2018)* Distributed Caching Expert* Expertise in Couchbase Server* Built out orchestration and automation to integrate a third-party application (Couchbase) into internal deployment system. * Built Python Click-based CLIs for day-to-day operations.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

* Supported Content Team, which includes the Groups product, Publishing platform, and Sharing.* Advanced Root Cause Investigation for Production Issues.* Used SaltStack to write states, modules, pillars, etc. to automate Couchbase installation* Auto-remediation of alerts* Deployed ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) infrastructure at LinkedIn so that we could leverage centralized logging. * Learned Java/Scala to help developers fix code bugs and to make cleaner logs.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

* Supported the Education platform and the Profile/Identity Platform.* JVM knowledge, GC tuning (CMS + G1)* Setting up production monitoring via dashboards and creation of alerts.* Configuration Management for different envionrments.* Write Python tools (webapps, CherryPy, Flask, requests, gevent, IRC bots)* Integrated Couchbase into the LinkedIn ecosystem.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Created a tool to increase visibility of a job management system. Contributed to the initial design, integrated this job management system with another change logging system, and wrote libraries for faster querying of machine database.Experience Gained: Python, multithreading, Remote Procedure Calls, test-driven development, API creation, code reviews.

Managed and updated four main websites for the Office of Sustainability, which included updating content, fixing bugs, and redesigning sections of the site.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Ethernet Switch Technology Group (ESTG) – NG3K Software: ASIC Infrastructure Team, Platform Team• Implemented Observability on the Catalyst 3k series switches, specifically run-time debug and trace commands.• Implemented commands for the command line interface (CLI) for the ASIC infrastructure• Learned to work with large codebases and version control software such as ACME.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Worked as a counselor on the orientation program for incoming freshmen and transfers on their transition into UC Berkeley.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Eecs)

High School Diploma