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Hybrid-Remote Workplace, Us

• Designed, planned, and executed a comprehensive migration of Kafka infrastructure from self-hosted environments to AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK), ensuring zero downtime and data loss. This strategic shift improved Kafka availability to 99.9%, safeguarding business continuity by guaranteeing uninterrupted data flow and operational stability.• Led the design and implementation of a self-service application for Kafka resource deployment on Kubernetes, automating previously manual and repetitive tasks. This initiative significantly boosted developer productivity, reducing time spent on resource deployment and accelerating the delivery of key projects, thus driving business growth.• Developed automation scripts using Bash, Go, Terraform, and Ansible, automating key operational tasks that previously required manual intervention. This automation reduced operational costs by 90%, leading to a dramatic improvement in efficiency and allowing the business to allocate resources more effectively toward innovation and strategic initiatives.• Created runbooks, self-managed applications, and deployed Cruise Control, significantly reducing the monitoring and administrative burden on on-call engineers. This optimization saved substantial time and enabled engineers to focus on their ongoing work, improving project delivery timelines and reducing burnout from on-call duties.• Contributed to open-source projects like Jaeger, enhancing its ability to process traces up to Kafka’s maximum size. This improvement empowered numerous organizations to effectively manage large-scale trace data, enhancing their operational monitoring and system observability capabilities.• Contributed to the terraform-kafka-provider, streamlining the management of MSK clusters with IAM authentication, which helped many organizations adopt secure and scalable Kafka infrastructure management using Terraform.

Hybrid-Remote Workplace, Us

• Designed, scaled, and administered Kafka clusters utilizing Strimzi operators for Kubernetes. Collaborated seamlessly with development and operations teams to integrate applications into platforms such as Grafana, Mimir, Loki, and Prometheus, ensuring smooth releases and optimal performance.• Developed reusable Helm charts and architected a streamlined setup for Otel collectors across Kubernetes deployments. This enabled seamless transmission of logs and metrics from multiple applications to Grafana, enhancing monitoring efficiency.• Provide constructive guidance to peers during code reviews, ask insightful questions, help identify issues and facilitate effective solutions during troubleshooting sessions play a pivotal role in enhancing project quality by delivering valuable feedback in technical design reviews for emerging features.• Successfully migrated numerous data pipelines from SNS, SQS, and Kinesis architecture to a Kafka-based streaming setup. This strategic move not only aligned the services with business needs but also yielded cost savings and enhanced operational efficiency.• Contributed to the development of a resilient real-time data streaming platform for the data to be used by multiple downstream teams such as data science, analytical engineering and ML engineering etc.• Managed containerization using Docker and Kubernetes, optimizing resource utilization and enabling horizontal scaling to accommodate increasing workloads.• Developed and implemented a streamlined Kafka Connect image, reducing the image size by 10X compared to mainstream Kafka Connect images. This initiative drastically improved resource utilization and efficiency, empowering teams to deploy Kafka Connect as a microservice, fostering agility and faster iteration within the organization’s development processes.

San Diego, California, Us

• Build, test and maintain the infrastructure and tools to allow for the speedy development and release of software. • Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment for software development teams.• Coordinate with all software platform teams in improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed. • Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management. • Participate in project-planning meetings to provide guidance and expertise on system options, risk, impact and costs vs. benefits, create and share operational requirements and development forecasts to allow for timely and accurate planning of projects.• Install and configure solutions, implement reusable components, translate technical requirements, assist with all stages of test data, develop interface stubs and simulators and perform script maintenance and updates. • Deploy new services and upgrades and complete fixes within the production environment. Make new services ready for production, includes moving them according to specific procedures and documenting knowledge transfer.

San Diego, California, Us

• Design and architecture engineering solutions to critical business problems• Develop, Implement robust and highly scalable APIs that can be used by web and mobile clients• Measure and enforce the quality of the code by writing automated unit/integration tests to the software features developed.• Estimate and perform feasibility analysis, forecast risks and plan the delivery of new requirements by participating in software design reviews with product development team.• Perform code reviews to make sure it is of high quality and raise attention to bugs and potential improvements to be made within the software.• Integrate and document the code changes• Practice Kanban development methodologies in building efficient and highly scalable software• Deploy and monitor the services to ensure the business continuity and production.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering