Santosh Kantharaj
Senior Software Engineer
Summary
Backend, SRE and DevOps engineer with 10 years of professional experience in a variety of tools, technologies and languages. Proven ability to work in fast paced agile environments, with a solid track record of delivering quality results in a timely manner. Strong engineering professional with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from The Ohio State University.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
Languages
Work History
Senior Engineer
Zscaler
Austin, TX
09.2021 - Current
- Provisioning and teardown of ZIA (Zscaler Internet Access) products and services on custom Zscaler hardware.
- Built automation in Bash, Python and Ansible to accelerate provision/teardown process, saving 50+% in turnaround time.
- Ops/on-call to address production environment issues.
- As a US citizen, I worked in both commercial and federal environments.
Software Engineer II
Charles Schwab
Austin, TX
12.2020 - 09.2021
- Configured ITRS monitoring tool to send notifications and trigger custom Python scripts.
- Composed Splunk queries to trigger notifications on specified conditions.
- Managed application readiness before market open via bash, perl and sql scripts to track key application measures.
- Configured CI/CD workflows and pipelines in Kubernetes-based Harness to sync with Bamboo and deploy application artifacts to target servers.
Software Engineer
Cisco Systems Inc.
Austin, TX
01.2019 - 11.2020
- Built and administrated Python-based test automation architecture to enable easy and swift product testing.
- Maintained, configured and deployed container-as-a-service, Linux-based test automation environments in vSphere-based cloud.
- Automated configuration and deployment of virtualized environments via Ansible scripts.
- Designed, built and automated the deployment of a Kubernetes cluster hosting the main web application and its corresponding components.
- Implemented metrics collection and alerting using the Prometheus monitoring stack.
- Provisioned logs collection, parsing and analytics using Elastic stack.
Software Engineer
General Motors
Austin, TX
06.2014 - 12.2018
- Developed Java-based REST API and widgets for clients to build website content for Owner Center and Brand websites (https://my.gm.com and https://www.chevrolet.com).
- Dev Lead – engaged with product owners and business analysts, groomed initiatives, and delegated tasks.
- Scrum Master – Facilitated team meetings, sprint planning, team progress tracking.
- Performed JUnit and benchmark testing of application code.
- Oversaw technical issues and troubleshooting requests to resolve surfaced problems.
- Prototyped log collection for simulation data utilizing Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK stack).
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
The Ohio State University
USA 08.2011 - 2014.05
Skills
Ansible
Timeline
Senior Engineer
Zscaler
09.2021 - Current
Software Engineer II
Charles Schwab
12.2020 - 09.2021
Software Engineer
Cisco Systems Inc.
01.2019 - 11.2020
Software Engineer
General Motors
06.2014 - 12.2018
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
The Ohio State University
08.2011 - 2014.05