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San Francisco Bay Area

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Key Achievements:🌐 Vendor-Agnostic Observability Pipelines: Pioneered the adoption of vendor-agnostic observability pipelines, promoting self-service experiences and cost transparency using oss Backstage. This significantly contributed to efficient cost management and reduced operational toil.🚀 Roadmaps and OKRs: Developed comprehensive roadmaps and OKRs to enhance the observability platform, aligning with Wayfair's transition to the cloud and a decoupled… Show more Key Achievements:🌐 Vendor-Agnostic Observability Pipelines: Pioneered the adoption of vendor-agnostic observability pipelines, promoting self-service experiences and cost transparency using oss Backstage. This significantly contributed to efficient cost management and reduced operational toil.🚀 Roadmaps and OKRs: Developed comprehensive roadmaps and OKRs to enhance the observability platform, aligning with Wayfair's transition to the cloud and a decoupled architecture.💰 Telemetry Cost Optimization : Led a successful initiative resulting in a 20% reduction in telemetry costs by migrating high cardinality metrics from Datadog to Prometheus.🤝 Observability as a product: Collaborated seamlessly with the product management team to translate internal customer requirements into actionable goals. As a product owner for the services we managed, we ensured alignment with organizational objectives.I am passionate about driving technological innovation and enabling seamless transitions to cloud-based, decoupled architectures Show less

Boston

Data Infrastructure Design and Maintenance:Spearheaded the design and maintenance of Wayfair's data infrastructure, supporting petabytes of logs and metrics. Integrated key technologies, including Elasticsearch, Airflow, InfluxDB, and open-source observability pipelines.Ensured seamless scalability and reliability, contributing to a 20% improvement in system performance and enabling efficient handling of increased data volumes during peak events.Provided support in maintaining… Show more Data Infrastructure Design and Maintenance:Spearheaded the design and maintenance of Wayfair's data infrastructure, supporting petabytes of logs and metrics. Integrated key technologies, including Elasticsearch, Airflow, InfluxDB, and open-source observability pipelines.Ensured seamless scalability and reliability, contributing to a 20% improvement in system performance and enabling efficient handling of increased data volumes during peak events.Provided support in maintaining system integrity with 3–9s availability and ensuring a seamless experience for end-users.Architectural Guidance and Collaboration:Offered crucial architectural guidance for challenging engineering problems across software and systems, ensuring optimal solutions and fostering a culture of innovation.Collaborated closely with software and infrastructure teams to design and build scalable web platforms serving millions of customers, resulting in a 25% increase in platform efficiency and user satisfaction.Engineering Excellence and Best Practices:Identified and eliminated engineering bottlenecks in systems, software, tools, and processes, contributing to a 20% improvement in overall team productivity. Drive the establishment and adherence to development standards and best practices across the engineering organization, ensuring a high level of code quality and system reliability. Show less

Boston, Massachusetts

Virtualization Environment Management:Contributed significantly to the stability and scalability of a vast virtualization environment, overseeing 6000+ VMs across 250+ hypervisors.Implemented strategic initiatives resulting in a 15% improvement in system stability and a 20% increase in the overall scalability of the virtualization environment.Automation of Service Templates:Spearheaded the automation of service-based CentOS/Windows template creation using Packer, GitLab CI… Show more Virtualization Environment Management:Contributed significantly to the stability and scalability of a vast virtualization environment, overseeing 6000+ VMs across 250+ hypervisors.Implemented strategic initiatives resulting in a 15% improvement in system stability and a 20% increase in the overall scalability of the virtualization environment.Automation of Service Templates:Spearheaded the automation of service-based CentOS/Windows template creation using Packer, GitLab CI, and Govami.We achieved a 25% reduction in template creation time, enhancing operational efficiency and accelerating service deployment.Infrastructure as Code Implementation:Played a key role in the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, utilizing Terraform, Consul, and GitLab CI.It resulted in a 30% decrease in infrastructure provisioning time and improved version control, ensuring consistency across the environment.Monitoring Tool Development:Led the development of an in-house monitoring tool in Python, leveraging the ELK stack and Jenkins.Achieved real-time performance monitoring for all hypervisors and virtual machines, reducing downtime by 20% through proactive issue identification and resolution.Forecasting Tool Implementation:Implemented a Python-based forecasting tool predicting the number of physical machines needed in the next four quarters.Enhanced resource planning accuracy, reducing excess capacity costs by 15%, and optimizing resource allocation for future needs.Multi-Threaded Web Application Support:Transformed a collection of scripts into a unified Python application, automating the creation of VMware virtual machines. This optimization drastically reduced resource delivery time from over 3 hours to just 15 minutes, ensuring prompt and efficient resource allocation. Show less

Greater Milwaukee Area

Implemented and enforced best practices for source control, continuous integration, and release automation through collaboration with the development teamAutomated the build and deployment process, making use of Jenkins and GitLab

Schaumburg

Agile development in object oriented Python, and Perl to automate the process of joining a domain using realmd in RHEL7 and in-place upgrade of RHEL 6 to RHEL 7.Complied with DoD STIGs. Frequently delivered and tested code ahead of iteration schedules.Created a framework to implement Test Driven Development(TDD) to perform ESXi / VMware, RHEL 7 automation & testing tasks using VMware vSphere SDK and Jenkins. Test / CI framework reduced a test process from one staff week to 18… Show more Agile development in object oriented Python, and Perl to automate the process of joining a domain using realmd in RHEL7 and in-place upgrade of RHEL 6 to RHEL 7.Complied with DoD STIGs. Frequently delivered and tested code ahead of iteration schedules.Created a framework to implement Test Driven Development(TDD) to perform ESXi / VMware, RHEL 7 automation & testing tasks using VMware vSphere SDK and Jenkins. Test / CI framework reduced a test process from one staff week to 18 minutes.Part of System Platforms and Architecture (SPA) that captures requirements and develops software solutions through architecture, detailed design, coding, and box verification for ASTRO, Dimetra and LTE highly available, mission critical public safety communications systems. Worked on automating the process of creating Virtual Machines and integrating it with the process of creating an OVF .Automating the process to delete a Virtual Machine and creating a checksum of the OVF created.Worked on implementing configuration standards specified in the Security Technical Implementation Guide provided by the department of defense for Java (JRE and openJDK) and for VMware ESXi Version 5 Virtual Machines. Show less

Chicago Il

Compare Performance of Virtual Servers and physical Servers in terms of Network Latency, Processor Usage and Disk I/OpsExtensively utilized Perl, and Shell on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Bangalore India

Engineer and support a globally distributed Windows server infrastructure which supports Thomson Reuters revenue generating and customer facing applications for Westlaw and Tax & Accounting. Design and implement enterprise class solutions with Microsoft Windows Server and related technologies. Provide both technical and non-technical expertise multiple teams. Identify opportunities for improvement, developing and driving technical and process solutions that result in improved operational… Show more Engineer and support a globally distributed Windows server infrastructure which supports Thomson Reuters revenue generating and customer facing applications for Westlaw and Tax & Accounting. Design and implement enterprise class solutions with Microsoft Windows Server and related technologies. Provide both technical and non-technical expertise multiple teams. Identify opportunities for improvement, developing and driving technical and process solutions that result in improved operational effectiveness. Show less

Master, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering