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Ananth Bhaskararaman
Staff Engineer

About

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.

Work Experience

Qube Cinema Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
January 2020 – Present
Staff Engineer
Lead Linux Appliance OS development and Fleet Orchestration for an Edge Network of Theatre Appliances across 55 countries.
Highlights
  • 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.
Flatirons Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
July 2018 – December 2019
Senior Software Engineer
Full-stack developer working on Desktop, Web and Mobile applications deployed in Aviation Maintenance contexts.
Highlights
  • 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.
FuchsiaGiraffe Innovations Pvt. Ltd.
January 2017 – December 2017
Co-Founder & CTO
Incubated by the IIT RTBI Incubation Cell & developed a veterinary care and patient management platform.
Highlights
  • 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.
Pickle Internet Pvt. Ltd.
July 2016 – December 2016
Software Engineer
Incubated by the IIT RTBI Incubation Cell & developed a veterinary care and patient management platform.
Highlights
  • 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.
Influx Integrated Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
January 2016 – June 2016
Product Development Engineer
Created embedded personalised exhibition experiences using Raspberry Pi-based kiosks and Arduino based human input devices.
Highlights
  • 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.
Consultant
January 2013 – December 2015
Web Developer
Freelance consultant web developer designing Wordpress websites, Wordpress themes, Python web applications, and static portfolio sites.
Highlights
  • 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: A utility website for calculating DHCPv4 Option 121 values.
  • UTS QR Code Generator: A QR Code Generator for the UTS Mobile Application.

Contact

33 Trust Puram 1 Cross Street
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600024 IN
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Education

  • 2012 2016

    SRM Institute of Science & Technology

    Bachelor of Technology

    Computer Science Engineering

    Courses
    • Computer Science Engineering

Skills

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