About Me
Hi, my name is Aatish and I am an Engineer with over 10 years of industry experience.
I am currently working at LinkedIn as a Senior Site Reliabilty Engineer.
Born and raised in Mumbai, where I completed my schooling and undergraduate degree, after which I moved to the United States in 2009 to pursue my graduate degree in Computer Science.
My passion lies in providing the best Customer Support Experience possible. I have worked with a range of different languages and technology stacks and I am always looking for opportunities to work on something new.
Work Experience
LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the internet.
- My team worked to ensure site resiliency for LinkedIn, specifically the Jobs Portal and Recruiter tooling.
- Primary work included large scaling infrastructure load testing, Python automation, and supporting the Product software development teams.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs.
- Part of the LDAP core team that helps and supports all internal and external membership authentication.
- Own end-to-end development and operational environment, adhering to strict SLA, internal tools and manage ticketing systems.
Yahoo
https://www.yahoo.comProduction Engineer
October 2018 - August 2020
Site Reliability Engineer
November 2014 - October 2018
Yahoo! is a public corporation that offers a multitude of Internet services to users all around the world.
- Working as a Production Engineer in MetaData team. Next generation metadata and search platform for Yahoo! Mail using HBase over NetApp Filers. This is one of the most critical components of Yahoo Mail. Strict SLAs to follow to make sure uptime ~ 100%.
- Built useful tools in Python to automate job and applied troubleshooting skills that helped fix several major outages quickly for which I have received accolades from Director and VP of Yahoo Mail.
- Working with Incident Management and swift isolation of root-cause on user impacting issues.
Intuit
https://www.intuit.comApplication Operations Engineer
January 2012 - November 2014
Business Operations Intern
January 2011 - September 2011
TurboTax is the #1 best-selling tax preparation software to file taxes online. Intuit Brands: QuickBooks, Mint, ProConnect.
- Provide Operational Support for Desktop Services within the Intuit Core Services, and participate in Tax Season support and other war-room efforts for all Intuit Core Services.
- Managing Perforce Administration tasks, Fortify (a security vulnerabilities software code) for all CTO projects and Dev to Deploy initiative using Jenkins.
- Create Monitoring Dashboard for the Business Operations team, analyzing and generating metrics for the live traffic of the external/internal customers.
- Coordinate with a diverse range of business units related to a particular application or services, during an incident or general maintenance.
Technical Skills
Summary of areas of interest and technologies, languages and concepts I have acquired knowledge of in this industry over the years.
Experience in DevOps/Site Reliability Techniques and Production Support for Large-Scale Infrastructure.
Exposure to System Troubleshooting, Root Cause Analysis, User Experience Monitoring and Edge Services.
Languages: Python, Bash, PIG, C++ Operating System: Red Hat Linux, FreeBSD Database: Hbase, MySQL Configuration Tools: Chef, Jenkins Concepts: DNS, Linux Internals Network Protocols: TCP/IP, SMTP, IMAP Web Services: Apache, Jetty, Kafka, Tomcat DevOps Tools: Splunk, Jira, Git, Google APIs Platforms: Bare-metal, OpenStack
Education
Rochester Intitute of Technology
MSc Computer Science
2009 - 2012
Established in 1829, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private research university in the town of Henrietta in the Rochester, New York metropolitan area.
University of Mumbai
BE Computer Engineering
2005 - 2008
Established in 1857, University of Mumbai, informally known as Mumbai University (MU) (formally known as University of Bombay) is a collegiate public state university located in Mumbai, India.
When I'm Not Programming
Alongside my interests in DevOps and Software Engineering some of my other interests & hobbies are:
- Playing Guitar
- Dancing
- Photography
- Video Gaming
- Hiking