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Sravya Gonthina

Systems Engineer
Austin,TX

Summary

Self-motivated professional with ability to quickly master new technology to drive process improvements. Strong team player with excellent communication and collaborative abilities.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Systems Development Engineer

Twitch
05.2021 - Current
  • Collaborated and strategized technical support plans, timelines and scopes for OS upgrade projects and successfully upgraded over 50000+ hosts.
  • Worked on building new pop's to facilitate streamers and worked through numerous changes in process, collaborated with various teams to streamline process and document process which reduced time taken to bring up pop's by 40%.
  • Reduced alerts by 50% by continuously monitoring, identifying and resolving issues before services alerted.
  • Worked on password manager migration and developed cloudformation templates to manage items within new password manager.
  • Developed and executed plans to move applications running on physical servers to AWS.
  • Worked on our monitoring service migration.
  • Improved efficiency of monitoring by 25% continuously adding, removing, and updating health checks for various services.
  • Collaborated with teams, gathered information and created plan for Gitlab exit project.
  • Worked on time-sensitive DNS delegation requests.
  • Facilitated production support to services in 24/7 uptime environment.

Systems Engineer

Gracenote Inc.
06.2018 - 05.2021
  • Improved productivity by 50% by implementing device42 for inventory management and discovery.
  • Optimized server management and procurement process resulting in annual reduction of procurement costs 22%.
  • Planned and implemented re-ip project to move around 2000+ on-prem servers and virtual machines from static to DHCP.
  • Worked closely with customers, internal staff and other stakeholders for planning and implementation of server consolidation project in multiple data centers.
  • Refactored 1000+ cookbooks to comply with new version of chef automation tool.
  • Increased productivity of chef upgrade project by 60% by implementing Chef Automate to monitor chef failures.

Operations Engineer

Gracenote Inc.
11.2015 - 07.2018
  • Assessed troubleshooting and firmware upgrade methods and improved process and increased productivity by 90% by implementing Dell OME.
  • Performed numerous off time patching cycles to Upgrade servers OS and firmware.
  • Strategized technical support plans and designed budgets, timelines and scopes for network refresh and OS upgrade projects.
  • Built and maintained infrastructure of 2000+ servers consisting of Windows, Linux and virtual products.
  • Streamlined troubleshooting processes to improve system support and enhance communication between support team and end-users.

Linux Support Engineer

Stanford Health Care
03.2015 - 10.2015
  • Introduced Chef for automation in Myhealth environment.
  • Improved efficiency by 60% by writing cookbooks for deploying software’s on servers.
  • Deployed Splunk and implemented forwarder configuration, search heads and indexing.
  • Facilitated production support to Myhealth app users in 24/7 uptime environment.

Education

Master of Science - Electrical And Computer Engineering

Missouri University Of Science And Technology
Rolla, MO
08.2013 - 05.2015

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

MVSREC, Osmania University, Hyderabad
India
07.2009 - 05.2013

Skills

Requirements gathering and Migration Strategies

Infrastructure planning and administration

Linux and Windows server Management

Active Directory

Chef

Git

Virtualization

Networking

Production support

Programming

Automation

Design and Implementation

Python

AWS

Cloudformation

Terraform

Timeline

Systems Development Engineer

Twitch
05.2021 - Current

Systems Engineer

Gracenote Inc.
06.2018 - 05.2021

Operations Engineer

Gracenote Inc.
11.2015 - 07.2018

Linux Support Engineer

Stanford Health Care
03.2015 - 10.2015

Master of Science - Electrical And Computer Engineering

Missouri University Of Science And Technology
08.2013 - 05.2015

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

MVSREC, Osmania University, Hyderabad
07.2009 - 05.2013
Sravya GonthinaSystems Engineer