Career Profile
A linux geek since the school days and fortunately started my job around linux and devops. I write code to kill boredom and consider writing code as an art. I’m usually active on online discussion mediums for open source projects that I work in and have contributed to various opensource projects like Logstash, grok debugger and numerous other projects on Github.
Experiences
This team handles the reverse proxy for LinkedIn at our Point of Presences and Datacentres.
Primarily works on reverse proxy for LinkedIn, Apache Traffic Server.
Managing multiple PoPs and reverse proxy at DCs for application servers.
Custom service discovery built using Go to discover backend services.
Deploying new PoPs to further decrease page load times.
Investigating site speed regressions.
This team works on managing our public DNS servers, multiple Content Delivery Networks and synthetic monitoring of our infrastructure.
- Took ownership of multiple PoP ramps.
- Overhauled an internal certificate inventory tool with a completely new backend to support more certificate types
- CDN evaluations before we onboard them to our website
I worked in the hosting team and was involved in bootstrapping a new product around dedicated server hosting for Bigrock. It was a team of two people, me and my manager.
- Managing internal cloud based on Openstack icehouse release used by different teams for testing purposes.
- Day to day administration of dedicated hosting product which is on top of openstack.
- Setting up a new dedicated hosting infra using OpenStack Havana release
This team involed maintaining the email infrasturcture that served millions of users.
- Sole contributor to the log analytics platform using the ELK stack. It was mostly used to search logs and do analytics over email logs for business metrics. I also pushed code to opensource projects namely logstash and grok debugger as and when I found bugs.
- Developing multiple milters in python language for postfix to mark/tag emails and take appropriate actions
- Sole contributor in setting up the Open-Xchange collaboration platform which was released a month before I left the team.
- Move email quota usage store from postgres to Redis so that reads/writes are faster.
- Setting up spamassassin and integrating it with already existing spam solution by writing a custom postfix milter.