Prasanna Kumar J

PRASANNA KUMAR J Sri Balaji Nilaya, Pooja garden, 6th cross, Horamavu post, K.channasandra, Bangalore 560043. E-mail:-Phone: - Github | Linkedin Summary: Innovative Solutions Engineer with a strong technology background and 10+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing cutting-edge deployment automation and management of multiple infrastructure resources. Strong information technology professional with a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from SCT institute of technology. WORK EXPERIENCE December 2020 – Date, Netflix Entertainment Services India Llp. (Senior Studio Solutions engineer) • Member of the Studio Infrastructure team, responsible for the development and management of a virtual workstation platform that runs on AWS. Built on Netflix standard tools, like Spinnaker and Titus, it uses SaltStack to manage the lifecycle of virtual workstations to support a variety of selfservice use cases within Studio Production. • Contributed to the AWS based Deadline Render farm refactor to the latest version. • Worked with active productions to resolve production technical challenges using existing tools and systems within the Netflix ecosystem. • Built license manager portal using Rest Api, Grafana based infrastructure status and monitoring system. December 2018 – December 2020, Deluxe Entertainment India- Method studios. (Systems engineer) • Systems engineering role responsible for design of systems and infrastructure in a feature film visual effects (VFX) studio. • Systems administration tasks: Establishment of git-based configuration management workflow; CentOS 6/7 and Windows systems administration; High performance storage administration: Isilon OneFS; Arista high performance network switch management; Python scripting of systems administration and pipeline; render farm systems administration. • Leading team to achieve technology goals with project inception, advocacy, planning, implementation and user acceptance. • Been part of a DevOps team between software development and systems engineering disciplines. • Partitioned in systems architecture to establish private compute cluster capabilities to expand our 2000 core high performance compute cluster (render farm). The goal is to enable burst options to meet project deadlines while maintaining content security for film studios in isolated networks. • Contributions through Ansible playbooks for patch and configuration managements across the studio. • Network separation/restructured for whole infrastructure from joint business units. • Zabbix with Grafana implementation for monitoring all areas ranging from network topology and server hardware through to process and backups. • Setting up and maintenance of Work from Home environment based on HPRGS and Guacamole Technologies during pandemic situation. Jan 2016 – December 2018, Technicolor India Private Limited (Division’s handled: Dream Works dedicated unit, Mikros Animation, The Mill, MrX, MPC advertising) • Partitioned in establishing new facilities of Mill, Mikros Animation and MrX in India. This included working with cross site on leading the technology implementation which involved planning and pipeline implementation, transition to respective global pipelines (particularly from a production point of view). Complexities included working in different time zones with existing Technicolor Security standards and brands in the location to establish a new facility. • Facilitating relationships between the two business units Mill advertising and MPC advertising teams in India by merging technology in all the possible fields without disturbing Production workflow (Included Storage, Network and VM Infrastructure). • Implementation of Nagi OS for monitoring infrastructure; Puppet for Path management; • • management; Spacechat a chat system through docker containerization. Documentation and training of team mates on managing infrastructure. Partitioned in building JAMF environment for Netflix projects under MPC advertising. Nov 2014 – Jan 2016, worked as SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR (L2) at NTT DATA GDS (Messaging Team) • Monitoring and management of Linux (squirrel mail server) and Windows (Exchange mail servers). • Bash scripting for ease of alert notification and self-healing upon triggered alerts. • Monitoring alerts via Netcool and working on tickets for server and network maintenance via ServiceNow and Jira for ensuring the SLAs are maintained with Client. Nov 2012 - Nov 2014 Worked as LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR at CORDINAL TECH SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED. • System Administration through Level 1/2 support with IT strategic planning. • Installations and maintenance of local datacenter. • Working with team to contribute ideas and changes to improve service and optimize the infrastructure. • System performance monitoring and optimization to meet security and high availability requirements. • Contribute to disaster recovery efforts for local site. • Manage Role base access control environment and support. • Error checking and troubleshooting, technical problem related data management, servers, workstations, storage, network, applications and software’s. • Scripts for reducing manual day to day tasks. Personnel Profile: Name Gender Marital Status Date of Birth Fathers Name Language Proficiency Declaration: I hereby declare that the information provided is correct and true to the best of my knowledge. Date: Place: Bangalore PRASANNA KUMAR J ( )