Arjun Nambiar
Los Angeles,CA
Summary
Proactive and results-driven software and platform professional with expertise in designing, building, automating, and maintaining scalable platforms and observability solutions. Skilled in development and optimization with a commitment to problem solving. Adept in leading cross-functional initiatives to drive innovation and collaboration while ensuring alignment with business goals.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Platform Engineer
DIRECTV
05.2021 - Current
- Designed and implemented auto-remediation workflows to integrate Prometheus alerts with Python and bash scripts to streamline troubleshooting during incidents
- Developed various APIs that interact with Git and Kubernetes APIs for more automated system for configuration changes
- Update and maintain plugins within Java and Go SDKs for metric and trace instrumentation, such as tail-based sampling
- Helped containerize various tools to cut cloud costs and improve reliability
- Create pipelines to deploy monitoring tools using Spinnaker and Ansible/AWX
Platform Engineer
DIRECTV
06.2020 - 05.2021
- Managed and maintained metric, tracing, and logging infrastructure for entire Kubernetes platform using tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Opensearch, Kafka, and Opentelemetry
- Manage and maintain Grafana clusters to provide observability across organization platform, including managing users, creating with dashboards and alerts, and configuring datasources across various AWS services
- Maintain and improve process of converting lambda cloudwatch logs into Prometheus metrics
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA06-2020
Skills
- Technology: Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Opensearch, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Ansible/AWX, Git, Netdata, AWS (EC2, Cloudwatch, Dynamo, Lambda, API Gateway, Bedrock, IAM)
- Agile: Jira, Kanban, Confluence, XMatters
- Languages: Python, Go, Java, NodeJS, Bash
Timeline
Senior Platform Engineer
DIRECTV
05.2021 - Current
Platform Engineer
DIRECTV
06.2020 - 05.2021
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
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