Sarath Pillai

SARATH R PILLAI H.No 8-2-365/10, Road No. 5, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad Cell - Website: www.slashroot.in Email:-IT CONSULTANT (DEVOPS & SOLUTION ARCHITECT) EXPERIENCE 10/2106-Present Integration Engineer at Facebook ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Integrating Wi-Fi network solutions, Facebook software and internet.org core features with ISPs’ infrastructure Manage the technical relationship with the ISP partners, provide technical support and handle service outages Automate Facebook’s core components in partner’s site using chef. Create and plot metrics for data analysis. Lay out network architecture to set up and integrate wifi solution for Facebook at partner locations. Own back-end services like our Hadoop data warehouses, front-end services like Chat and Newsfeed, infrastructure components like our Memcache infrastructure, and everything in between Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems, live, on some of the largest and most complex systems in the world Build and release features to different geographic regions in the regions 6/2013-10/2106 Lead DevOps Engineer And Solution Architect(Aspera - An IBM Company) ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Designed and architected Aspera's SaaS platform for FILES and Analytics Products. Designed and automated a Mesos Based highly available cluster manager, for running different resource intensive tasks in SoftLayer datacenter. Built an entire Mesos (for cluster management), Marathon (for running regular tasks in Mesos), and Docker (for running container's inside mesos slave servers) Built an automated service discovery implementation with service discovery tool called as Consul. Designed a DNS based discovery structure for Services as well as normal DNS using consul custom Domain and registrator for registering newly discovered services. Implemented and maintained a Spark Cluster for fast data crunching, in analytics platform. Built multiple core application Docker images using Dockerfile automation. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Built and maintained a private Docker registry for storing confidential images, which are part of different application clusters. Built a full build and deployment pipeline using Jenkins and Docker images. Maintained an elasticsearch cluster for text indexing and processing, all in mesos/marathon stack. Automation of all server fleets using custom made chef recipes for Mesos Master's and Mesos Slaves. Built a completely automated and secure deployment of two factor authentication OpenVPN for customers and administrators to login to the environment. Designed a Gluster based storage system for high volume storage requirement for storing Huge log files for analytics platform. Built and Maintained internal GIT LAB, for different projects and code maintenance. Designed a method for Scale UP and Scale DOWN of application cluster's using container's based upon request load and traffic spikes 6/2013-10/2106 Lead DevOps Engineer And Solution Architect (Sony Pictures Entertainment) ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Played a Major role in designing and architecting Sony's Media Processing Application entirely in Cloud,for UK, Madrid, Latin America Regional operations of Sony. Layed out the main workflow of File transfers between Different regions of Sony Pictures in the cloud. This is primarily fast file transfer services for Exceptionally large media Files. Layed out DNS infrastructure with Zone transfer setup to sync to Internal DNS servers of Sony. Configured multiple network interconnection links with Sony from the cloud, and vice versa, for fast data transfer rates internally. Designed and maintained huge storage Array's, ranging more than 300 to 400 Terabytes for Sony. Especially for File based storage. Implemented a complete two factor authentication System for all endpoints and servers for Sony Automation of core components and repeated tasks using Chef automation tool inside the Sony cloud infrastructure. Maintaining Highly available clusters of Web, Transfer, ESB, MQ, Transcoder Servers all in cloud Lead a team of System administrators for Managing the server fleet and security for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Built clusters of high speed transfer server's for customers of Sony to deliver Media files at time. Designed a build and deployment pipeline for the middle tier ESB application, which is part of Sony's Media Processing workflow. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Implemented automated Application deployment through containerization technology and Docker images. The current primary media processing application is running through Docker containers. Weekly auditing of Sony's cloud servers for Security and penetration testing. Designed a highly available multi server monitoring system to monitor all cloud server's. Automated deployment pipeline for web tier node js application using Elastic beanstalk technology of AWS cloud. Implemented multiple mission critical automation scripts to sync data to multiple regions of Sony, after data arrives in the cloud. Automated deployment of different versions of transcoder servers for Heavy media processing. Designed and implemented backup strategies for Sony. This is for both file storage as well as configuration, databases etc. 6/2011-6/2013 Linux Systems Administrator, Media.net (Yahoo & Bing Contextual Advertising) ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Deployment and maintenance of Linux systems and app software in multiple clusters across 4 data centers totaling approximately 1000 mostly Dell PowerEdge Servers. RHEL-like platforms, and Red Hat automated provisioning technologies, including Cobbler, kick-start. Deploying a robust Monitoring infrastructure with enterprise class monitoring tool Nagios Plotting various graphs to get an overview of the infrastructure with tools like Ganglia and Cacti Deploying Configurations and modifications to Thousands of servers with the help of Configuration management tool Puppet Maintaining connectivity between multiple data centers by building a robust OpenVPN tunnel based network Load Balancing of multiple web clusters serving millions of requests per day with the help of F5 Big IP Load balancer Storage solutions for multiple servers with the help of Dell PowerVault MD3200 & MD3200i (DAS & iSCSI) Managing Code with the help of Version Controlling using GIT Finding out and Mitigating DDOS (Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks), by coordinating with our DDOS mitigation partner Played a key role in Implementing methods and strategies of gathering and reporting metric and outages using tools like nagios, hyperic, ganglia, nfsen, observium. Well versed with concepts of enterprise switching like vlans, stp, trunk ports, etherchannel. ● ● ● Possess good understanding of BGP and regularly coordinate with ISP like Data Foundry and TW Telecom and DDOS mitigation partner Prolexic to mitigate issues Managing and automation of windows deployment with the help of WDS. Lead a major role in Maintaining Advertisement Platform for Yahoo & Bing Network for Domain Parking and Contextual Advertising in Austin SoftLayer Datacentre. FIELD OF INTEREST ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Understanding and Learning Internal working of any Linux related applications and system tools. Writing Technical Articles related to Linux System & Security (You can find my notes and writeup on Linux @ www.slashroot.in ) Docker Container Technology, and Building custom Images for different applications. Chef Automation Linux System Administration Linux Internals Like GRUB, INODE, PROCESSES, IO USAGE, PERFORMANCE MONITORING Linux System Security tools and Auditing of servers with the help of audit tools like Nikto and nessus DNS tools and Applications like BIND and Power DNS. Distributed Storage Management like SAN, Gluster for NAS etc. Network Traffic Analysis with LibPCAP and other Traffic capturing utilities, and maintaining and plotting historical graphs for later anlysis. Application layer firewalls like BigIP to filter out traffic based on different criteria like User Agent, Host Names, URI string, Source and Destination Installing, Configuring and Maintaining Secure authentication technologies like Kerberos Storage with NFS and Its Performance Tuning Working with SSL related services like Web Servers and Open VPN Securing data and communications with the help of Encryption tools like GPG & LUKS Tracking and maintaining tasks through ticketing systems like RT(Request Tracker) EDUCATION ● B-tech in Applied Electronics & Instrumentation ● RHCE(Red Hat Certified Engineer) Certified ● RHCSS LDAP module Certified (Two Modules remaining) MY WEBSITE (Technical Blog) www.slashroot.in OTHER FIELDS OF INTEREST ● Website development using CMS management System like DRUPAL ● Search Engine Optimization and Inbound Marketing for increasing website traffic and conversion rates CONTACT DETAILS Ph: - Mail:-,-Contact Form: http://slashroot.in/contact