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Akshay Patil
Platform Tech Lead
Hillsboro,OR
Summary
Experienced Platform Engineer with 10 years of industry experience designing, deploying, and managing complex software applications and infrastructure. Skilled in a range of cloud platforms, programming languages, automation tools, and DevOps methodologies. Proficient in containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes, monitoring and logging tools. Proven track record of optimizing processes, troubleshooting complex issues and leading platform teams. A valuable asset to any organization seeking to develop and deploy high-quality software solutions.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Languages
Work History
Platform Tech Lead
Okera Inc
San Francisco, CA
01.2019 - Current
- Led the team in implementing of Azure Devops with Azure Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Terraform and Helm charts.
- Planned, scheduled, and delegated daily work to team of employees.
- Supervised end-user support efforts, designing policies to establish consistent service guidelines and reliable ticket resolution.
- Managed team performance by training, mentoring, disciplining, and motivating employees.
- Collaborated in designing SaaS solutions through automated product deployments and scalability with Azure AKS.
- Provided exceptional managed service experience to customers through efficient application deployment, troubleshooting, and production support.
- Led the platform roadmap discussions, storyboarding, writing epics and grooming tickets in Azure Boards.
- Authored comprehensive operational runbooks for clients and internal teams to facilitate issue troubleshooting and enhance system performance.
- Authored public documentation for the product platforms and integrations, and also developed technical documentation disciplines and structures for the company.
- Performed code reviews and pull requests on Azure Repos and incubated mature Devops patterns for git workflows.
- Developed Helm charts for product microservices deployments on multiple cloud providers (AKS, EKS, GKE)
- Orchestrated infrastructure-as-a-code and application deployment using industry-leading tools such as ARM templates and Terraform modules.
- Designed and configured robust Kubernetes platforms, including Azure AKS, to ensure seamless application provisioning and a secure shared platform.
- Created and managed Helm charts repository for public and private charts for customer production deployments, as well as internal test/dev environments.
- Designed and implemented a Kubernetes native nightly test infrastructure using Helm, Crossplane and ArgoCD.
- Actively collaborated with customers to deploy applications in their production Azure Cloud environments and ensure seamless integration with our product.
- Continuously explored emerging technologies and cutting-edge solutions to develop innovative approaches for managing and deploying software products.
- Developed a security architecture for the organization using Azure AD services and external identity providers.
- Led the implementation of observability with Azure monitor, Container Insights along with Kubernetes Dashboard
Sr Platform Engineer
Cloudwick Technologies | Consultant To Nike
Beaverton, OR
01.2017 - 01.2019
- Led engineering team to successfully complete projects on time and within budget.
- Implemented automated systems to improve accuracy and efficiency of engineering processes.
- Monitored and evaluated engineering performance to recommend improvements.
- Conducted technical evaluations of engineering designs and test results.
- Designed and developed robust utilities and tooling for platform user management using Puppet and Python scripting, significantly enhancing the efficiency of user management.
- Provided exceptional support to various data engineering teams for big data applications, ensuring timely and accurate data processing and analysis.
- Created cloud automations and administrative utilities for Airflow and Cloudera Hadoop, streamlining complex workflows and improving system performance.
- Developed proof-of-concepts for new technologies and applications on Kubernetes, successfully deploying applications to production environments.
- Provided innovative solutions for Azure cloud infrastructure management and resource cataloging, optimizing system performance and ensuring seamless scalability.
- Authored Python utilities for data science tools in , improving data analysis and streamlining data science workflows.
- Contributed to platform-as-a-solution in analytics by designing and implementing cutting-edge programs and scripts, ensuring seamless data management and analysis.
- Participated in roadmap building and developing epics and sprint planning.
Cloud Platform Engineer
Cloudwick Technologies
Newark, CA
01.2017 - 06.2017
- Verified construction documentation to meet client requirements and vision.
- Implemented new strategies to reduce costs and improve efficiency of engineering team.
- Monitored and evaluated engineering performance to recommend improvements.
- Trained and mentored junior engineers, providing guidance and direction.
- Designed and developed robust architecture for Datalake infrastructure in collaboration with AWS, to produce optimal data management and analysis capabilities.
- Led automation development in close collaboration with AWS solutions architects, developing innovative solutions to streamline complex workflows and enhance system performance.
- Developed highly efficient CloudFormation templates for seamless one-click deployment of solutions, significantly reducing time-to-market and enhancing customer satisfaction.
- Implemented advanced Python Lambda programs for processing events in S3 Datalake platform, ensuring efficient data processing and analysis.
- Created AWS data pipelines for ETL between S3 and Redshift, streamlining data management and analysis processes.
- Authored comprehensive CLI utilities and tooling for platform and test engineers, facilitating efficient system management and troubleshooting.
Big Data Platform Engineer
Cloudwick Technologies | Consultant To IMVU
Newark, CA
10.2016 - 12.2016
- Demonstrated a successful proof of concept for migration by building a fully functional CDH cluster on Amazon Web Services, effectively demonstrating the product's capabilities to clients.
- Communicated new or updated data requirements to global team.
- Prepared documentation and analytic reports, delivering summarized results, analysis and conclusions to stakeholders.
- Explained data results and discussed how best to use data to support project objectives.
- Formulated and executed an innovative operational strategy to integrate and automate a pre-existing manual CDH cluster with Cloudera Manager server, significantly enhancing system efficiency and minimizing cluster downtime.
- Configured Cloudera Manager server with high availability for efficient management and monitoring services, and ensured seamless end-to-end infrastructure with file sharing system, MySQL binary replication, local repositories, and HAproxy.
- Developed advanced scripts to perform parallel loads onto HDFS and Hive, as well as Scala scripts to validate Spark application integration, ensuring seamless data processing and analysis.
- Authored comprehensive Nagios scripts for monitoring health checks on various critical components such as Kafka topics, daemon lifecycle, HDFS block replication, and disk storage, ensuring optimal system performance and early issue detection.
Hadoop Platform Engineer
Cloudwick Technologies | Consultant To Daimler
Newark, CA
06.2016 - 10.2016
- Played a pivotal role in the successful collaboration with Hortonworks in designing and implementing a highly functional HDP cluster with core Hadoop services and essential ecosystem components such as HBase, Hive, Zookeeper, and Kafka, incorporating essential security services such as Ranger and Knox.
- Conducted extensive configuration of HDFS storage and performed IO stress testing, cluster tuning, and benchmarking the throughput, ensuring optimal system performance and data management capabilities.
- Secured the cluster by integrating Ambari server and Ranger with Active Directory and Kerberizing the cluster services, enhancing system security and mitigating potential security threats.
- Created comprehensive access rules for HDFS directories and Hive tables using Ranger plugins for user and service-level authorization, ensuring seamless data access and security.
- Authored operational runbooks containing detailed steps to configure services and troubleshoot issues, ensuring optimal system performance and facilitating efficient issue resolution.
Hadoop Platform Engineer
Cloudwick Technologies
Newark, CA
02.2016 - 06.2016
- Spearheaded the development and replication of an efficient and fast Hadoop cluster utilizing on-premise OpenStack, significantly enhancing data processing capabilities and system efficiency.
- Authored advanced scripts to automate cluster service configurations and launch ecosystem using Cloudera Manager APIs, ensuring seamless and efficient cluster setup and management.
- Integrated CM scripts inside OpenStack Heat orchestration templates to launch Hadoop clusters on demand, enhancing system flexibility and responsiveness to client needs.
- Developed advanced puppet manifests to maintain the cluster configurations and created profiles for application stack, ensuring seamless system maintenance and optimal application performance.
- Administered the OpenStack platform, closely monitoring the Neutron network and Nova server and storage utilization, ensuring optimal system performance and efficient issue resolution.
Research Assistant
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
01.2014 - 11.2015
- Designed and developed a cutting-edge solution for detecting and flagging credit card frauds using advanced graph analysis algorithms, significantly improving fraud detection rates and customer safety.
- Provided a robust infrastructure setup to deploy and run large graph databases and analytical engines on AWS, ensuring seamless and efficient data processing and analysis.
- Conducted extensive experiments with various distributed databases, graph engines, and processing frameworks, evaluating their effectiveness and efficiency for graph analysis tasks.
- Configured Cassandra cluster and integrated with Titan graph database, serving as a raw storage backend for efficient data storage and retrieval.
- Installed and configured core Hadoop services as a processing framework for the Titan graph and Faunus jobs, ensuring seamless and efficient graph processing and analysis.
- Authored advanced Hive scripts for data de-duplication and preprocessing for graph-compatible adjacency lists, ensuring accurate and efficient data representation for graph analysis.
- Created advanced groovy batch scripts to ingest the raw data from HDFS into the graph with labeled nodes and edges, ensuring accurate and efficient data representation for graph analysis.
- Collaborated closely with developers in understanding the APIs and translating algorithms into graphical terms, ensuring seamless integration and effective utilization of advanced graph analysis algorithms.
- Worked both independently and collaboratively in fast-paced laboratory environment.
- Gathered, arranged, and corrected research data to create representative graphs and charts highlighting results for presentations.
- Performed statistical, qualitative, and quantitative analysis.
- Attended seminars and symposiums to improve overall knowledge and understanding.
Cloud Solutions Architect
Li9 Technology Solutions | Internship
Phoenix, AZ
05.2014 - 08.2014
- Delivered comprehensive end-to-end solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to diverse clientele with bespoke demands
- Formulated and executed migration strategies and high-availability solutions on AWS for efficient storage, archiving, and application hosting
- Strengthened VPC resource security through the implementation of access control policies, security groups, and IAM roles
- Conducted in-depth network analysis and monitoring, and implemented alert mechanisms for billing and resource health using CloudWatch
- Devised auto-scaling solutions for clients and developed corresponding CloudFormation templates for seamless deployment.
- Identified and remediated single points of failure and security risks.
- Displayed sound understanding of standard networking protocols, virtual networks and load balancing.
- Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions.
- Maintained compliance with cybersecurity regulations and measures and tracked, assessed, integrated and reported on modernization and migration processes.
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
Bangalore, India
08.2012 - 08.2013
- Worked as a Linux systems administrator and collaborated with the network operations team to troubleshoot issues
- Designed and implemented isolated networks to deploy servers and implemented PXE network installations
- Implemented logical storage volumes with LVM, performed disk partitioning, and created filesystems
- Authored scripts to perform server log rotation and Cron jobs to trigger alerts for memory and disk utilization
- Maintained and updated package repositories and media repositories for kickstart and YUM installations.
- Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new system designs and suggested options for performance improvement of technical components.
- Streamlined troubleshooting processes to improve system support and enhance communication between support team and end-users.
- Implemented networking and server changes to meet client budgets and needs.
- Delivered helpdesk service and support to customers.
Associate Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
Bangalore, India
07.2011 - 07.2012
- Developed and maintained comprehensive documentation and standard operating procedures for application platforms
- Managed Active Directory and executed user migration from Windows to Linux using winbind services
- Conducted proof of concept testing for achieving high availability of application servers through pacemaker and messaging services
- Collaborated with colleagues to develop scripts for monitoring application daemons, log processing, and server health
- Communicated effectively with engineering teams, platform owners, and offshore teams to assess technical progress and identify and resolve blockers
- Worked with vendors and other departments to improve quality of services.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 08.2013 - 12.2015
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
VTU
Karnataka, India 06.2007 - 06.2011
Skills
Programming Languages
Interests
Swimming
Meditating
Play pool
Play soccer
Driving
References
- Desiree Therianos, VP, People, Okera Inc, San Fransisco, CA Email : dtherianos@okera.com
Phone: +1.510 .703.2363 - Kiran Kumar, Head of HR, Cloudwick Technologies Ltd, Newark, CA Email : kiran@cloudwick.com
Phone: +1.301.661.1575
Timeline
Platform Tech Lead
Okera Inc
01.2019 - Current
Sr Platform Engineer
Cloudwick Technologies | Consultant To Nike
01.2017 - 01.2019
Cloud Platform Engineer
Cloudwick Technologies
01.2017 - 06.2017
Big Data Platform Engineer
Cloudwick Technologies | Consultant To IMVU
10.2016 - 12.2016
Hadoop Platform Engineer
Cloudwick Technologies | Consultant To Daimler
06.2016 - 10.2016
Hadoop Platform Engineer
Cloudwick Technologies
02.2016 - 06.2016
Cloud Solutions Architect
Li9 Technology Solutions | Internship
05.2014 - 08.2014
Research Assistant
Arizona State University
01.2014 - 11.2015
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
Arizona State University
08.2013 - 12.2015
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2012 - 08.2013
Associate Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2011 - 07.2012
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
VTU
06.2007 - 06.2011