Career Summary

Experienced passionate Engineer eager to solve challenging problems.

Work Experience

Associate Lead Software Engineer

2021 - Present
  • Drive the initiative to migrate the Container Orchestration Platform to Kubernetes.
  • Designing and implementing a platform to support continuous integration and continuous delivery.
  • Build and support a containerization platform for all the applications and services in the organization.
  • Mentor Software Engineers, helping them tackle challenging engineering problems.

Technologies used:

  • DC/OS
  • Docker
  • Ruby
  • Chef
  • Terraform
  • Spinnaker

Senior Software Engineer

2018 - 2021
  • Designing and implementing a platform to support continuous integration and continuous delivery.
  • Build and support a containerization platform for all the applications and services in the organization.
  • Mentor Software Engineers, helping them tackle challenging engineering problems.

Technologies used:

  • DC/OS
  • Docker
  • Ruby
  • Chef
  • Terraform
  • Spinnaker

Associate Senior Software Engineer

2016 - 2018
  • Works in the Tools and Infrastructure team responsible for deploying and managing multiple CI/CD and automated deployment tools used at Cerner.
  • Splunk Certified Admin responsible for deploying and managing Splunk at Cerner. Made significant contributions to the cerner_splunk open Source Chef cookbook.
  • Administers and manages on-prem Chef Infrastructure at Cerner; authored multiple Chef cookbooks to automate deployments and worked closely with multiple teams to introduce them to Chef and other internal CI/CD tools.
  • Mentoring new hire Software Engineers- getting them up to speed and conducting knowledge transfer sessions.
  • Attended Professional Agile Development training which helped in sharpening my project management skills. Plays the role of a scrum master for Development and Support teams.

Technologies used:

  • Chef
  • Splunk
  • Spinnaker
  • CI/CD
  • Agile

Software Engineer

2014 - 2016
  • Worked in the Processing Infrastructure team responsible for developing, maintaining and standardizing the infrastructure for all the MapReduce (MR) jobs within the Population Health Organization in Cerner Corp.
  • One of the major contributors to a Chef cookbook that automates the deployment of MR jobs using Oozie job scheduler.
  • Developed a utility to extract MR job history from job history files in HDFS, which then gets forwarded to Splunk, helping the MR job owners to monitor and evaluate the performance and resource utilization, and fine tuning of their jobs.
  • Gained significant experience working in both Agile and Kanban development methodologies.

Technologies used:

  • MapReduce
  • Oozie
  • Splunk
  • Chef

Lead Developer

2012 - 2014
  • Gained the unique experience of being exposed to a startup in the private photo sharing space; saw a concept go from whiteboard to market in a short time frame and contributed to the process, working closely with the founder.
  • Played a critical role in the design, development and delivery of SpotMyPhotos.com v1.0.0.
  • Participated as a teammate in ways beyond that of a programmer; worked closely with customers to assess their needs and design solutions accordingly; collaborated with cross-functional teammates on a variety of projects; pitched in wherever needed.
  • Refined project management skills while working on both independent and team projects.

Technologies used:

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Android
  • AWS

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Illinois Institute of Technology
Jan 2014 - May 2014
  • Teaching Assistant for CSP 586: Software Modeling and Development with UML.
  • Helped students answering questions and addressing any concerns that they had related to their coursework.
  • Evaluating the performance of students, including grading assignment and quizzes.

Skills & Tools

Languages

  • Ruby
  • Chef
  • Python
  • AWS Cloud Formation
  • Terraform

Technologies/Tools

  • AWS
  • Splunk
  • Spinnaker
  • Docker
  • DC/OS

Others

  • DevOps
  • CI/CD
  • Container Orchestration
  • Git
  • Jenkins
  • NewRelic
  • JIRA

Education

  • Masters in Computer Science
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    GPA: 3.9/4.0
    2012 - 2014
  • Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering
    Mahatma Gandhi University
    GPA: 3.75/4.0
    2008 - 2012

Certifications

  • Splunk Certified Admin 6.3
    Splunk Inc
  • Splunk Certified Power User 6.3
    Splunk Inc.