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