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DEEPTHI REDDY
SUMMARY & OBJECTIVES
A Devops Professional with 7 years of experience covering config management, monitoring solutions,
architecture, builds, automation, deployment, optimization and troubleshooting for globally depoyed large scale
critical applications requiring 24x7 uptime
I seek to obtain a growth oriented challenging position in IT, in an organization/group that provides an
intellectually stimulating work environment where there is scope to apply my skills and knowledge and
associate with the fields that provide promising career and path.
I think that working with a good set of people is one of the most important factors in building one's own
knowledge and capability, and I hope that the organization and the set of people I get to work with is of high
caliber and I would like to contribute significantly and make an impact.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
§ Languages: perl, python, shell scripting
§ Operating Systems: Linux
§ Database: MySQL, Oracle, Sybase
§ Web Servers/Proxy: Apache, Tomcat, Squid.
§ Network troubleshooting and Unix System administration skills. Business continuity planning
§ Monitoring tools: Nagios, Netcool. Zenoos
§ Version control : SVN, Git
§ Virtulization: CloudStack, Openstack, Xen
§ Config Management: Puppet, Foreman
§ Other technologies:
ú Hadoop, Oozie
ú Messaging : Activemq, Rabbitmq
ú Splunk
ú Zookeeper
ú Hardware load balancing, Software load balancing (Akamai)
ú AWS
ú DNS management
ú RPM repository management
ú LDAP
ú Packer
ú SAN, NFS
WORK EXPERIENCE
Citrix R&D 2015 - Present
Position: System Administrator/Engineer, Saas Division
Duration: March 2015 to present
§ System Administrator for the Citrix Saas division. Responsible for all Infrastructure aspects of the
Technical Operations dvision
§ Responsible for the DNS infrastructure, LDAP/Authentication solutions and infrastructure management,
Linux network boot service and infrastructure, Puppet/Foreman infrastructure and puppet module
release process, Mail relays and integration with third party mail service providers (Sendgrid)
§ Responsible for the Splunk forwarder infrastructure as well as providing solutions for improving Splunk
performance, creating dashboard for various requirements.
§ Responsible for managing a fleet of Cloustack clusters consisting of Xen Hypervisors. Deploying
additional hardware, addition of storage over SAN ( FC and ISCSI), Image Creation, Integration of
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VMs with DNS, LDAP, puppet infrastructure, Automating cleanup of unused VMs using cloudstack
API
§ RPM repository management. Custom repos as well as syncing of repos from Redhat. Implemented a
system to periodically fetch security errata from Redhat and keep the local repos updated in order to
make it simpler to patch Linux Systems with security updates.
§ Hands-on experience with handling all aspects of infrastructure running on AWS, On premis
infrastructure using CISCO USC, HP/Dell iLO
§ Setup up periodic automated checks to verify end to end fuctionality and availability of services
mentioned above.
§ Built a dashboard to give a consolidated view to the executive team of the health of the entire fleet of
products in the Saas division
§ Automating admin requests by providing a Self-Service tool for the cutomers which now handles
requests without human intervention. This was a team effort where I was reponsible for a part of the
backend as well as frontend, developed using Flask Framework and Angular JS
Yahoo! Software Development Centre 2009 - 2015
Position: Tech Lead
Duration: April 2012 to March 2015
Position: Senior Service Engineer
Duration: April 2011 to March 2012
Position: Service Engineer
Duration: July 2009 to March 2011
§ Service engineering lead for a range of Yahoo internal tools, which support the large-scale
infrastructure at Yahoo. Developer productivity tools, Deployment tools, Monitoring tools, Performance
management tools.
§ Directly responsible for all production engineering aspects of 15 such tools during various times at my
tenure here. In addition, provide 12x7 oncall support for 30 other tools supported by the team.
§ Experience in handling traffic spikes, production outages, troubleshooting and fixing a live system, root
cause analysis, remediation tracking, software deployment in a seamless manner
§ Develop scripts to automate the deployment, administration and monitoring of a large-scale Linux
serving environments hence reducing the deployment times by more than half.
§ Generally improve the operability of systems. Handle security upgrades to the entire infrastructure
footprint.
§ Setting up and supporting 24x7, highly available, horizontally scaling, service-oriented, distributed
production system (200+ systems) . Capacity planning based on future traffic forecast.
§ CI/CD. Build and development life cycle. System configuration and state management. Disaster
recovery.
§ Unix System, Network and Storage Administration, DNS
§ Develop checks and capture metrics to continuously monitor application/system health and analyze
performance trends.
§ Setup MySQL Fault Tolerance System with failover capabilities for various applications. Mysql
backup, federation, recovery.
§ Experience with configuring and deploying oozie workflows to process big data on Hadoop.
§ Work in collaboration with development teams to ensure products are architected for optimum
performance and adhere to maintainability standards
§ Work independently and within a team. Mentor others in the team
EDUCATION
§ Bachelor of Engineering – Computer Sciences
P E S Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India 2005 – 2009
Visveswaraiah Technological University, Belgaum
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Aggregate percentage :78.75 %
§ Pre-University Course – Karnataka PU Board
Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, India 2003 – 2005
Percentage in Qualifying Examination : 91.83 %
§ 10th
Standard - ICSE
Cluny Convent High School, Bangalore, India 2003
Percentage in Qualifying Examination : 88.5 %
OTHER PROJECTS
§ JADE: A Compiler Infrastructure for Cloud Computing Applications
o 8th
Semester B.E. Project
o OS Windows
o Technology ActionScript, Adobe AIR, ColdFusion, Python
o Developer constructs a cloud application by writing the server side code and client side code
separately, often using different languages and programming methodologies. Our project
extends the power of Adobe Actionscript programming language to the server side
development, thus, providing a homogenous cloud computing programming model (JADE).
§ Adobe AIR Web Browser Additional B.E. Project
o OS Windows
o Technology Adobe Flex 3.0
§ Developed a simple web browser using Adobe AIR version 1.0 platform. This browser supports basic
functions. This project leverages the Adobe AIR’s HTML rendering capabilities using the HTML
control component and also desktop integration functions of the AIR runtime.
HONOURS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
§ You rock team award – 2014 for performance platforms
§ 2 Pat on the back awards (March 2013 and March 2014) for handling service engineering and
operations for deployment tools and performance management tools
§ Spot bonus award given by director of the Platforms organization for overall performance in Nov 2010
§ Special grant of stock options for exceptional performance in 2011
§ Appreciation award within the first 3 months of joining as a fresher for my contribution within a short
period.
TRAITS
§ Adaptive – Can learn quickly and get to the root of an issue speedily
§ Result-oriented – I believe that good solutions go beyond just use of good/current technology and the
true test for a technology solution is its final real-world utility
§ Good written and spoken communication skills, and team skills
PERSONAL DETAILS
§ Date of birth : 20 July 1987
§ Father’s Name : M.L.N Reddy
§ Sex : Female
§ Nationality : Indian
§ Languages known : English, Kannada, Hindi
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DECLARATION
I hereby declare that the information provided above is true, complete and correct to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
(Deepthi Reddy)