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Sathish Chander Krishnan

Senior Cloud Architect-Infrastructure,Security, Machine Learning
Frisco,TX

Summary

Experienced GCP & AWS Architect Professional, Confluent Kafka expert with over 12 years of experience in digital transformation,Machine Learning & Migrating applications from Monolithic to Microservices .Designed Streaming Architectures with Kafka Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction. Resourceful Security & Networking Architect, experienced in evaluating and assessing client requirements and implementing infrastructure to solve identified problems. Harnessed Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies to create scalable and user-centric systems. Strong negotiator with excellent value-driven solutions. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
10
10
Certifications

Work History

GCP & Confluent Kafka Architect

Risk Focus
New York, NY
05.2021 - Current
  • Design and write Terraform Scripts for the DataProc Cluster.Develop Ansible scripts for building Custom Packages inside the DataProc Cluster
  • Developed Custom GO Lang Package for automating the common Infrastructure tasks such as Creating GCS Buckets, Updating the Permissions for Big Query Datasets
  • Setting up Event Driven Microservices with Kafka & API Gateway and APIGEE
  • Migrated On-Prem Hadoop Clusters to DataProc Clusters & reduced Data Center footprint and cost by more than 80%
  • Migration of On-prem DataWarehouse to Big Query Data Lake
  • Designed Data Pipelines with Apache Beam & set up a Cloud ETL process from DataLake ,GCS, to Big Query
  • Set up Streaming Architectures with Confluent Kafka. Write Spark Structured Streaming Code to handle ETL Transformations
  • Setting up Monitoring to Elastic Search
  • Setting up Containerized Solution for the Ingestion & Preprocessing in Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Use Cloud DataLoss Prevention to redact PII & PCI Data
  • Setting up Cloud Composer / Airflow for Scheduling the DAG's
  • Optimize Costs & performance for BigQuery
  • Setting up Monitoring for the DataProc with Elasticsearch
  • Setting up of GCP Internal Load balancer for the Big data infrastructure.
  • Migration of Hive MetaStore to Cloud SQL [ PostgreSQL]
  • Implement Network & Security best practices for the DataProc clusters
  • Setting up Machine learning Pipelines with Vertex AI and Auto ML
  • Setting up AI Infrastructure with Cloud TPUs and Cloud GPUs

AWS Solutions Architect

EPAM Systems, Inc-[ CoreLogic Labs]
Irving, TX
10.2020 - 05.2021
  • AS AWS Subject Matter Expert, Provided technical leadership and delivered innovative products and services to address customer specific requirements.
  • Monitored and tested application performance with Prometheus & Grafana to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and collaborate with developers on solution implementation .Reduced incident calls duration by over 90%,as the Support team is able to utilize the Metrics to pinpoint the issue
  • Designed Terraform ,Cloud Formation and CDK Templates for setting up Spark Platform in AWS EMR. Utilized Ansible for setting up configuration in EMR
  • Designed Kafka platform in AWS MSK [ Managed Services for Kafka] for Streaming workloads
  • Setting up AWS DataPipeline for Batch & Streaming work loads
  • Developed Custom Glue Jobs for Mapping & Transformation with Python Spark.
  • Setting up Machine Learning Pipelines with SageMaker, KubeFlow
  • Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
  • Utilized code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques to design, plan and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.

Cloudera BigData Architect

Tata Consultancy Services
Columbus, OH
09.2011 - 09.2015
  • Installation and administration of Cloudera Manager on LINUX distribution.
  • Performed capacity analysis, monitored and controlled disk space usage on systems.
  • Monitored system activities and fine-tuned system parameters and configurations to optimize performance and ensure security of systems.
  • Worked closely with Capacity Planners on architecting Hadoop clusters with CDH5
  • Good Knowledge on Installation and configuration of Cloudera distribution Hadoop CDH5, NameNode, Secondary NameNode, YARN Components and Data Nodes.
  • Strong Experience in Installation and configuration of Hadoop ecosystem like HBase, Flume, Pig, Sqoop.
  • Expertise in Hadoop cluster task like Adding and Removing Nodes without any effect to running jobs and data.
  • Install, Configure and Manage of Hadoop Cluster spanning multiple racks using automated tools like puppet
  • DRBD implementation of NameNode Replication to avoid single point of failure.
  • Manage and review Hadoop Log files.
  • Set up automated 24x7x365 monitoring and escalation infrastructure for Hadoop cluster using Nagios and Ganglia
  • Load log data into HDFS using Flume.
  • Scheduling cron jobs for file system check using fsck and also running the balancer for uniform load on the nodes.
  • Worked extensively in creating MapReduce jobs to power data for search and aggregation
  • Designed a data warehouse using Hive
  • Worked extensively with Sqoop for importing metadata from Oracle
  • Extensively used Pig for data cleansing
  • Created partitioned tables in Hive
  • Worked with business teams and created Hive queries for ad hoc access.
  • Evaluated usage of Oozie for Workflow Orchestration
  • Stored the Data in MongoDB for faster query and access

Senior AWS Devops Engineer

Dynata
Plano, TX
12.2019 - 10.2020
  • Implement AWS Landing zone using Control Tower
  • Develop Terraform scripts for building Amazon Elastic Kubernetes services [ EKS]
  • Designed Secure & Cost effective Applications by utilizing best practices from CloudCheckr, AWS Trusted Advisor & AWS Config.
  • Migrated On-Prem Docker Swarm applications to ECS /EKS/ Fargate
  • Setting up Transit Gateway , Direct Connect Gateway for provides network connectivity for Multiple AWS Accounts across all regions and Organizations
  • Architecting in AWS for Redundancy & Disaster recovery
  • Setting up Infrastructure as a Code using Terraform for controlling Core Infrastructure development and setup.
  • Set up Automation using Systems Manager for Patching & running other Automation Tasks
  • Collaborated with cross-functional development team members to analyze potential system solutions based on evolving client requirements.
  • Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.

Senior AWS Infrastructure Architect

Alliance Data
Columbus, OH
10.2015 - 01.2020
  • Defined enterprise processes and best practices and tailored enterprise processes for applications.
  • Setting up Monitoring solutions with help of CloudWatch, Cloud Trail and DataDog.
  • Setting up Ansible, Puppet Modules for automating the Linux & Windows Hosts.
  • Set up Integration from AWS to SPLUNK using Kinesis Firehose and Lambda.
  • Set up ELK stack with Integration to AWS SSO & AWS Cognito.
  • Integrate the Kubernetes Secrets to AWS Secrets Manager & AWS Parameter Store.
  • Set up AWS Fsx and EFS with Active Directory.
  • Design the LoadBalancer strategy & the AutoScaling templates for Frontend infrastructure for a Customer facing website.
  • Implemented Tag based Service Control Policies, Attribute Based Access Controls for the AWS Resources.
  • Certificate Creation & maintenance using AWS Certificate Manager for Cloud Front & ALB.
  • Migrate from MuleSoft to API Gateway – regional & Edge Optimized End points.
  • Set up of Centralized Security Logging with Cloud Trail at the Organizational level .
  • Setting up Unified Data Encryption Framework for S3 & EBS Volumes.
  • Utilize the AWS Code Pipeline, Code Deploy and Code Build to automate the Build and Deployment Process.
  • Utilized SAM Templates for creating Serverless Applications
  • Wrote detailed architectural design plans, security requirements and specifications.
  • Participated in all phases of system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation.
  • Worked with business analysts and different subject matter experts to gather and define requirements, identify constraints and plan scopes.

Senior AWS Devops Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
Columbus, OH
07.2007 - 09.2015
  • Devised and executed test plans to assess software functionality, integrity and security based on industry practices and internal policies.
  • Design a Cloud Front to cache the Content deployed by the SDL Web 8.5- Tridion
  • Migrate the CMS DB- Microsoft SQL server to AWS MS-SQL RDS
  • Design Network Architecture by creating VPC’s for the Application and DB Tiers
  • Design Firewall & Security Groups for the Application & Load Balancer
  • Set up Application Load Balancer by designing appropriate Routing Strategy in the appropriate VPC
  • Design a Containerization strategy using Kubernetes and Docker
  • Architect the Elastic File System [EFS] to handle Millions of file uploads by the CMS server
  • Set up of AWS WAF and AWS Shield to mitigate DDos Attacks
  • Set up of Internal and External Load Balancers in the appropriate domains to handle the Network traffic
  • Design Federation infrastructure using PING FEDERATE
  • Perform Disaster Recovery tests every month to ensure that the application is capable of handling the traffic in case of Outage in a Single Availability Zone or a Single Region.
  • Design Read Replicas and Multi-AZ for MS-SQL DB
  • Set up of REDIS Cache to mitigate the DB traffic and increase the Application Performance
  • Designed and developed forward-thinking systems that meet user needs and improve productivity.
  • Wrote clean,clear and well-tested code on Java,Python,GO Languages
  • Collaborated with developers and performance engineers to enhance supportability and identify performance bottlenecks.

Education

Bachelors of Engineering - Civil Engineering Technology

Government College of Technology
Coimbatore
06.2003 - 06.2007

Skills

AWS Cloud Architect Professional

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Certification

AWS Architect Associate

Timeline

AWS Machine Learning Certified Speciality

03-2022

AWS Networking Certified Speciality

02-2022

AWS Architect professional

06-2021

GCP & Confluent Kafka Architect

Risk Focus
05.2021 - Current

AWS Security Certified Speciality

02-2021

AWS Devops Engineer Professional

01-2021

AWS Solutions Architect

EPAM Systems, Inc-[ CoreLogic Labs]
10.2020 - 05.2021

AWS Developer Associate

09-2020

AWS Sysops Administrator Associate

06-2020

Senior AWS Devops Engineer

Dynata
12.2019 - 10.2020

AWS Architect Associate

08-2019

Senior AWS Infrastructure Architect

Alliance Data
10.2015 - 01.2020

Cloudera Administrator

09-2015

Oracle PL/SQL developer Professional

02-2015

Cloudera BigData Architect

Tata Consultancy Services
09.2011 - 09.2015

Senior AWS Devops Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2007 - 09.2015

Bachelors of Engineering - Civil Engineering Technology

Government College of Technology
06.2003 - 06.2007
Sathish Chander KrishnanSenior Cloud Architect-Infrastructure,Security, Machine Learning