About
Senior Staff Engineer, Monitoring Infrastructure Development
LinkedIn, Inc.
January, 2020 - Present
- The adventure begins…
Senior Principal Software Development Engineer
Verizon Media (née Yahoo, Inc.)
April, 2018 – January, 2020 (1 yr, 10 mos)
- Created and led the team for Panoptes, a Network Telemetry Ecosystem
- Open sourced Panoptes - more at https://getpanoptes.io
- Spoke at NANOG 74, ONUG, SF Python and SCALE 17x
Prinicpal Software Development Engineer
Oath, Inc. (née Yahoo, Inc.)
November, 2015 – March, 2018 (2 yrs, 4 mos)
- Deliver key components of the network telemetry and monitoring framework @ Yahoo!
- Mentor and provide day to day management for team members
- Define and ensure implementation of coding standards, best practices, software testing and release management in a Continuous Delivery model
- Prepare and own designs, plans and budgets
- Work with leading vendors across the networking industry to understand and influence platform features and limitations
- Develop high level frameworks
Yahoo, Inc.
Principal Engineer, Premium Ads Production Engineering
June, 2014 – November, 2015 (1 yr, 6 mos)
- Oversee both day to day operations and provide technical strategic guidance to my group
- Co-ordinate between my group and related groups within Yahoo! to take decisions about various technical aspects
- Direct overall production engineering design to ensure capacity, reliability and performance of the Yahoo! Premium Ads system, which spans thousands of hosts and dozens of components
- Work with senior management to define and evaluate goals for the group
- Mentor new and existing group members
Architect, Premium Ads Production Engineering
April, 2013 – May, 2014 (2 yrs)
- Overall design to ensure capacity, reliability and performance of the Yahoo! Premium Ads system, which spans thousands of hosts and dozens of components
- Taking very broad directions from senior management and executive team and to turn them into specific actionable designs and plans for the team to execute
- Propose and influence the direction of technology and management to improve system performance, capacity and reliability
- Work with the management team to define goals for the global team
- Represent the team on external forums - both within Yahoo! and outside
- Wrote and presented technical papers at Yahoo!’s internal technical conference
- Featured as a guest speaker twice at LSPE#IN (Large Scale Production Engineering, India)
Engineering Manager
April, 2011 – March, 2013 (2 yrs)
- Managed a team of 10 in Bangalore
- Supervised day to day operations of Production Engineering team for Premium Ad Serving in Bangalore
- Hiring, coaching, performance appraisal and firing of team members
- Implementation of all company and department policies and procedures within the team
- Hands on/technical escalation point for the team
- Liaising with other teams within Yahoo for defining working relationships, expectations and SLAs
Individual Contributor
April, 2010 – March, 2011 (1 yr)
- Day to day operations of thousands of servers needed to effectively run Sponsored Search
- Triaging and fixing and production issues by implementing patches, workarounds or design changes
- Launching new software to the servers, as and when needed
Co-Founder and Director
Audney Information Systems Pvt. Ltd.
December, 2005 – March, 2007 (1 yr, 4 mos)
- Audney was a startup focused on developing products and services for Digital Home market
- Conceptualized and led the development of the product range
- Built and led a multi-functionary team of 12 members including developers, QA and administration staff
- Identified hardware components by interacting with vendors in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan over email, phone and in person
- Successfully demoed the product prototypes to various round two investors
Director
Mindframe Software & Services Pvt. Ltd.
October, 1999 – March, 2010 (11 yrs)
- Mindframe was a consulting and development firm started by me which focused on network and systems verticals
- Developed a product called PacketManager – a combination of a proprietary Layer 4 protocols, implemented as custom kernel modules, wrapped in a custom distribution, pre-loaded on a x86 router platform
- Executed many interesting and technically challenging projects for marquee clients such as the Delhi Stock Exchange, World Health Organization, India and Modi-Xerox
- Helped clients achieve compliance to standards such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 with a combination of consulting and hands-on infrastructure changes
- Had been entrusted with confidential information of the highest level and was interacting with CxOs for audit projects which involved confidential information of Fortune 500 companies
- Advised clients on IT infrastructure technology choices and capacity planning
- Responsible for technology leadership, team building, marketing & sales, daily operations and general management