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Work Experience

• Linux Engineer, 

  Oct, 2022 - Present

  • primary support for all linux systems running trading and research applications

  • administration and management of multi-petabyte scale enterprise storage systems of various flavors

  • engineering and administration of cloud-based archival solutions

• Head of Cloud & Site Reliability Engineering, 

  Sep, 2019 - Oct, 20223 years

  • built and led the high-performing Cloud & Site reliability Engineering team, and recently the End User Computing team supporting Asia and Africa regions

  • facilitated growth in cloud consumption by 4x (2019 to 2021) compared to on-premise (footprint reduction), through high levels of automation, reliability, repeatability and observability

  • drove competitive Infrastructure total cost of ownership (TCO) via lower human capital, pay-as-you-consume model, and scale on demand

  • implemented solutions and workflows to reduce IT cloud spending from 5% to 20% (target), via multi-year reservations and snooze for non-production / non-critical systems

  • planned and managed internal and vendor-awarded projects from the design, POV, implementation and retrospective phases

  • established and nurtured relationships with technology and security management and business unit CITOs

• Senior Automation Engineer, 

  Jan, 2017 - Sep, 20192 years 8 months

  • wrote Terraform modules, Ansible playbooks, Jenkins pipelines, Packer configurations, and glue scripts to construct Prudential's cloud foundation codebase

  • wrote CI & CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments running on OpenShift and virtual machines

  • wrote scripts to manage log rotation across all infrastructure assets, standardize the capture of memory dump data, automated encryption of local disks containing sensitive data with LUKS

  • established a fully automated workflow building entire business unit environments from scratch - with compliance, monitoring, and standards built-in

  • started the infrastructure-as-code practice across the regional infrastructure department

• Senior Devops Engineer, 

  Apr, 2016 - Jan, 20178 months

  • handled all aspects of automation for the Devops team - automated RHEL builds, orchestration of the CICD software installation and configuration, license tracking and renewals, automated plugins configuration and management

  • wrote glue scripts in lambda to manage the daily and weekly lifecycle of AWS resources for cost savings

  • worked with security and compliance to bring a regional CI/CD (Vx) platform to production in AWS

• Trading and Clearing Technology Support Enigneer, 

  Apr, 2014 - Apr, 20162 years

  • lead support for clearing operations applications and its platforms

  • automated the weekend production software releases with Ansible + inhouse bootstrap helper tools

  • automated parts of disaster recovry testing for clearing applications

• Senior Unix Administrator, 

  Apr, 2011 - Apr, 20142 years 11 months

  • automated server builds and post-build configuration with Puppet

  • automated BIOS and iLO patching / firmware updates for HP Proliant servers

  • wrote scripts for HP OpenView monitoring, authored various utility scripts for the unix team

  • automated filesystem encryption/decryption of servers shipped to customer sites using LUKS and puppet

• Unix Administrator, 

  Nov, 2007 - Apr, 20113 years 4 months

  • administation and maintenance of 1500 equities and market-data physical unix servers in the Americas

  • set up clustering using VCS (Veritas Cluster Server)

  • set up of Nagios and Icinga for equities server monitoring

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