Stanley Rao

• 20 years hands-on experience of Unix systems administration/engineering solutions design in both financial and telecommunication sectors.
• Highly-motivated with desire to take on new challenges. Strong sense of accountability and ownership, work ethic and team spirit, adaptability and exceptional personal dynamics. Adept at working effectively unsupervised, results driven and multitasking
• Keen on identifying operation process or design flaws to implement risk mitigation measures and drive for stability
• Solid troubleshooting and time management skills, details-oriented, methodical and analytical.
• Effective cross-team collaboration and coordination skills to complete complex infra or audit compliance projects with partner teams from infra/ app dev / business or vendor sides
• Lead Unix/Linux SA, platform SME in multi-platform environments. Low Latency system integration lead and operations support specialist for high profile CS EQ/Prime Services applications.
• Specialize in problem deep-dives, issues identification, risk mitigations in by adapting best practices and vendor recommendation to optimize solutions, DevOps automation skills to streamline product delivery cycles.
• Very experienced in leading large scale infrastructure projects and events including tech refresh, EoSL migration, quarterly maintenance and DR testing with timely and quality execution and deliveries. Led the effort to successfully migrate the mission critical low latency EQ trading application which impacted over 100 physical servers in total and 900+ virtual IPs movement over one weekend and multiple quarterly maintenance weekends in which entailing on updating over 1000 linux servers with security patching without issues.
• Planned and led complex OS upgrade project for over 1000 front office EQ RH Linux physical and virtual servers in north America, led all other regions in completion time and number. Documented instructions for other regional teams to follow and provided troubleshooting guidance.
• Planned and led OS/host-based storage migration projects for trading applications without single a single issue over the years in different companies.
• Low latency solution design for core EQ cash trading application, case studies, vendor engagement, custom tuning, performance testing and automated global deployment successfully in RH Linux (RH7) release. Developed solution to address a common production issue within systemd Linux running VCS and adapted by vendor SME as a recommended solution.
• Automation skills using Python/Ansible/Shell/Perl scripting and various UNIX utility tools
• Trading floors and backend servers support for global financial applications and databases.
• IT infrastructure planning and strategies, project management and product deliveries cycle management at Citi. Capacity planning/performance evaluation and analysis, forecast management, Asset optimization strategies, TCO tracking and reporting services to senior IT management.
• Avid distance runner and marathoner. Completed close to 20 marathons and 50 half marathons

• RedHat Satellite 6 Systems Administration
• RedHat Pacemaker Systems Administration
• RedHat Enterprise Systems Monitoring and Performance Tuning
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
• RedHat Configuration Management with Puppet
• RedHat OpenShift Administration
• RedHat Advanced Automation with Ansible
• RedHat Linux Systems Administration
• Agile Project Management
• Data Scient Python
• Introduction to Containers, Kubernetes and OpenShift
• Git Basics and Next Step
• ITIL v3 Foundation 2013 certification
• NYU SCPS Unix Systems Administration
• VMware vSphere ESXi/vCenter Server 5.1 Optimize and Scale
• Solaris 10 Systems Administration
• SUN Solaris Advanced System Administration
• SUN E15K/E12K Server Administration
• SUN Cluster 3.0 Administration, SUN NIS+ Administration
• IBM AIX IV Performance Management
• Veritas File System/Volume Manager and Cluster servers

• Road running
• Marathons
• Skiing

Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering Honor Society