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Alivia (Saha) Chakraborty

Alivia (Saha) Chakraborty

Leander,TX

Summary

A self-motivated professional having the ability and desire to learn on new technology. Overall 9+ years of industry experience worked on different technology and domain including development and support. Currently working as a Big Data Platform Engineer (Kafka & Druid) in Symantrix and worked for various clients. Completed Post Graduate Program on Cloud Computing from UT Austin Designed Curriculum facilitated by Great Learning in AWS and Azure Cloud. Looking for an opportunity in a learning and continuous delivery environment not limited to any technology domain. Responsive expert experienced in monitoring performance, troubleshooting issues and optimizing environment. Possesses strong analytical skills, excellent problem-solving abilities, and deep understanding of the technologies and systems related to Druid and Kafka platform. Equally confident working independently and collaboratively as needed and utilizing excellent communication skills.

Work History

Big Data Platform Engineer (Kafka & Druid)

SYMANTRIX INC
02.2020 - Current
  • Worked as a Kafka & Druid Engineer to install, configure and maintain different Tier level clusters as per Application requirement
  • Build and Support Dev, QA and Production Apache Druid Open Source cluster
  • Maintained a huge number (40+) of small, medium to large scale critical Hortonworks Kafka & Open Source clusters hosting its eco system services in Production
  • Broker and Zookeeper configuration setup as per issues reported
  • Creating Operational Acceptance Criteria (OAC) document based on the production release and follow that guideline across all production clusters
  • Debugging and fixing critical production issues (ISR Shrinks, under replicated and unavailable partitions etc.) in real time
  • Working on monitoring and implementing alert mechanisms for both Druid and Kafka clusters through Grafana
  • Planning and performing infrastructure activities including cluster upgrade, node re-allocations, Qualys scanning, TSR exception handling etc
  • Working with all the team members closely to guide them on day-to-day activities and critical production issues
  • Worked on Incident & Change Management for Production Issues and Implementation
  • Working with the team members closely to guide and work on day-to-day activities and production issues.
  • Contributed to internal activities for overall process improvements, efficiencies and innovation
  • Prepared written summaries to accompany results and maintain documentation.

SENIOR APPLICATION DEVELOPER

Stesalit Infotech Ltd
06.2010 - 02.2014
  • Worked on various projects which includes one primary project which is a GPS based system called SANCHALOK. This is based on tracking devices using GPS and its primary programming language is C/C++/QT and for analytics Datastore used is PostgreSQL. Designed and built fault tolerant system using multiple threads which can handle and failure of the communication channel.Another primary project is the Device Detector System which sensor-based data transmission for different devices. This project on Data Transmission System from various devices for various metrics. The system is built on Linux with Socket Interface. Also did Design and code review for peers along with mentoring junior engineers on the team

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Central Mechanical Engineering & Research Institute
12.2005 - 05.2010
  • Worked on underwater Robotic Vehicle with capabilities of intelligent navigation, autonomous guidance and control, obstacle avoidance and diving to depths of 150 meters underwater for accumulation of several data and images from the water basement.
  • The system software is responsible for all types of activities of the robotic vehicle which is running Intel Robotics System..Worked on IGCAR (Vision Guided and Inspection Robot), it is software-based hardware interfaced system for Vision and Guidance of a Remotely Guided Vehicle. The program is written in Visual C++ primarily.
  • I worked on Socket Communication, Real time visualization using open GL and Development of GUI (Surface Control).

Education

Post Graduate - Program in Cloud Computing

University of Texas At Austin
Austin, TX
07.2022

Master - Technology | Operational Research & Business Management

National Institute of Technology (R E College)
Durgapur
05.2009

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering

West Bengal University of Technology
Kolkata
05.2005

Skills

  • Platform Administration - Apache Kafka, Apache Druid & EcoSystem Tools
  • DevOps: Jenkins, Kubernetes etc
  • Monitoring - Grafana, Prometheus, Node-Exporter
  • Trained in Cloud – AWS (EC2, S3, etc)
  • Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (LIC:23863925 – EXPIRY-SEP2022)
  • Platform - Unix/Linux, Windows
  • Post Graduate Program on Cloud Computing(AWS & Azure)

Timeline

Big Data Platform Engineer (Kafka & Druid)

SYMANTRIX INC
02.2020 - Current

SENIOR APPLICATION DEVELOPER

Stesalit Infotech Ltd
06.2010 - 02.2014

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Central Mechanical Engineering & Research Institute
12.2005 - 05.2010

Post Graduate - Program in Cloud Computing

University of Texas At Austin

Master - Technology | Operational Research & Business Management

National Institute of Technology (R E College)

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering

West Bengal University of Technology
Alivia (Saha) Chakraborty