Ananth Bhaskararaman
Chennai, IN
antsub@gmail.com
https://devhuman.net
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Linux engineer, OSS developer, and a systems architect with expertise in networking, and container orchestration. Operating bare-metal and public cloud Kubernetes clusters with automation and small teams.

Education

SRM Institute of Science & Technology
June 2012
 — 
April 2016
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering
  • Computer Science Engineering

Experience

Staff Engineer
January 2020
 — 
Present
Qube Cinema Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Lead Linux Appliance OS development and Fleet Orchestration for an Edge Network of Theatre Appliances across 55 countries.

  • Migrated from in-house Linux Appliance Orchestration to CNCF backed open-source tools like Rancher & K3s.
  • Moved from building and deploying a custom Linux distribution in-house to working with Fedora Core OS as the OS for the Fleet.
  • Extensive tooling and automation upgrades throughtout greatly improving developer velocity and platform reliability.
Senior Software Engineer
July 2018
 — 
December 2019
Flatirons Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Full-stack developer working on Desktop, Web and Mobile applications deployed in Aviation Maintenance contexts.

  • Worked on legacy C++, ASP.NET, Java 7 and JavaScript codebases with ease.
  • Optimised Android Mobile applications written in AngularJS and Cordova.
  • Automated developer environments. For example, brought the setup time of a Windows XP based offline environment from 4 hours to 10 minutes.
Co-Founder & CTO
January 2017
 — 
December 2017
FuchsiaGiraffe Innovations Pvt. Ltd.

Incubated by the IIT RTBI Incubation Cell & developed a veterinary care and patient management platform.

  • Web based veterinary care platform written in Angular and Python.
  • Backend infrastructure deployed on Google Cloud GKE.
  • Cross-platform Mobile application based on React Native.
Software Engineer
July 2016
 — 
December 2016
Pickle Internet Pvt. Ltd.

Incubated by the IIT RTBI Incubation Cell & developed a veterinary care and patient management platform.

  • Web based veterinary care platform written in Angular and Python.
  • Backend infrastructure deployed on Google Cloud GKE.
  • Cross-platform Mobile application based on React Native.
Product Development Engineer
January 2016
 — 
June 2016
Influx Integrated Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Created embedded personalised exhibition experiences using Raspberry Pi-based kiosks and Arduino based human input devices.

  • Built a custom-built side-by-side cycle racing kiosk to promote the launch f a new TI Cycles product.
  • Developed, proposed, and built an electronic 'Rewards for Trash' system to encouraging recycling along Marina Beach Chennai.
Web Developer
January 2013
 — 
December 2015
Consultant

Freelance consultant web developer designing Wordpress websites, Wordpress themes, Python web applications, and static portfolio sites.

  • Designed a new portfolio website and Careers application for Datalogics India, Pvt. Ltd.
  • Deployed a new e-commerce website for Aum Gifts Chennai, Pvt. Ltd.
  • Created a portfolio and showcase website for GBR Metals Pvt. Ltd.

Projects

DHCPv4 Option 121 Calculator
October 2024
 — 
December 2024

A utility website for calculating DHCPv4 Option 121 values.

Languages

English:
Native speaker
Tamil:
Native speaker

Skills

Linux:
SRE, Distro Development, Kernel Module Development, eBPF, Systemd, Networking
Networking:
IPv6, HTTP3, Wireguard, Firewalls, Container Networking, Flannel
Containerisation:
OCI, Podman, Kubernetes, Docker, LXC/LXD, Firecracker VMM, gVisor
Programming Languages:
Go, Python, C++, ECMAScript, Typescript, Java, Elm, BASH
Databases:
PostgreSQL, SQlite, MySQL, Amazon Dynamodb, Redis, Memcache, Apache Cassandra
Devops:
CI/CD, Git, GitHub Actions, Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Jenkins

Interests

Programming Languages:
Rust, Zig, Ruby, HTML, Haskell, Nix, CSS, SCSS, Dhall, Elm, BASH, Fish, Nu, OSH, Yaml, TOML, JSON, JSONSchema
Linux Distros:
Arch Linux Tester, Fedora Core OS Tester, NixOS User
Embedded Development:
Arduino, ESP32, AVR, Raspberry Pi Pico, Pigweed, MicroPython
OSS:
Podman, Go, OCI, Asahi, Arch Linux AUR
Performaing Arts:
Theater Actor, Singer, Guitarist