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Aadithya Nirmal

Bangalore

Summary

Experienced SRE with a strong ability to bridge the gap between support teams and developers. Proactively creates automation tools, resolves escalated tickets, and manages on-call responsibilities. Demonstrates a proven track record of building proof of concepts (POCs) using cutting-edge technologies. Extensive expertise in integrating AI with existing tools and leveraging IAAC DevOps tools like Terraform to streamline processes. Highly skilled in code pipeline management and release handling, optimizing efficiency to drive successful outcomes.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Site Reliability Engineer II

Microsoft
03.2022 - Current
  • As a Site Reliability Engineer II, I work on ICMs with various criticality of Sev 1, Sev 2 and Sev 3 on HDInsight service mainly in spark, hadoop core (hdfs,yarn,zookeeper,kerberos) related issues.
  • Help support developers but actively working with them on new product feature requests.
  • Supportability improvements by creating tools in python that helps support engineers troubleshooting faster.
  • Use Terraform codes to create, update or destroy clusters. Working with terraform managed clusters.
  • Support HDI on AKS clusters on issues related to Kubernetes and troubleshooting issues related to pods, services, deployments etc.
  • Handle DRI responsibility with zero escalation and meet all SLA.
  • Integrating AI using azure copilot on internal tools that enhances the customer support experience by helping engineers resolve the issue faster.
  • Work on product bug fixes and feature requests.
  • Doing POCs on newly releasing services like Hdinsight on AKS and Fabric.
  • Certified Azure solution architect expert.

Cloud Support Engineer

Amazon
09.2019 - 03.2021
  • As a support Engineer, our primary role is to support the AWS Customers by understanding thier production pain and unblock them to achieve thier productivity.
  • Administering & Architecting AWS services like EMR, Glue, Sagemaker, Athena, Personalize, and MWAA.
  • I have conducted Training on AWS services and open source applications to New hires and cross profile engineers.
  • I have resolved 450 plus cases with 4.85 CCR rating and 51 5-stars.
  • Solved many critical issues related to hadoop eco systems in production environment and earned SME role.
  • Successfully conducted 6 virtual trainings on EMR, Glue and Sagemaker.
  • Mentoring graduates on new technologies to easily ramp them up to handle cases.

Hadoop Admin

VISA Inc.
04.2018 - 09.2019


  • Application onboarding and capacity planning.
  • CDH to Hortonworks migration activities.
  • Administering & Achitecting Hadoop Stacks like Hive, Sqoop, Spark and Kafka.
  • Installed and configured new cluster for India data localization project.
  • Creating kerberized cluster with AD integration for high security.
  • Created automated cluster build and configuration using Terraform.
  • Cluster stack upgrade activities.
  • Perfromance tunning on Hive,Spark,Map reduce and sqoop jobs.

Hadoop L3 support

IBM India
06.2015 - 04.2018
  • Hands on experience on Hadoop Maintenance, Administration and Architect including setting up, configuration of Hadoop.
  • Involved in Hadoop Cluster environment administration that includes adding and removing cluster nodes, cluster capacity planning, performance tuning, cluster Monitoring and Troubleshooting.
  • Well defined Capacity Planning for the Hadoop Cluster.
  • Moving data from one cluster to another using Distcp and sqoop for backup purposes.
  • Hive & HDFS data replication between two Hadoop Cluster.

Linux Admin

IBM India Pvt Ltd
06.2013 - 05.2015


  • Solving various Linux and hadoop related issues.
  • Have indepth admin knowledge on processes, threads, memory management, file systems, network sockets.
  • Troubleshooting Linux servers on various aspects like network,CPU,memory.
  • Automation through Shell scripting.
  • Good knowledge on Linux boot process and GRUB configurations.
  • Trouble shooting sudden restarts of the linux servers and solved various memory issues.

Education

B.E - Electronics and Instrumentation

Madras Institute of Technology Campus, Anna University
Chennai, TamilNadu
06.2013

Skills

  • Amazon Linux 2
  • Ubuntu
  • Python
  • Bash Shell
  • MySQL
  • MSSQL
  • Hadoop (EMR and Azure HDInsights)
  • Kerberos
  • Spark (Open source, Databricks and Azure Fabric)
  • Yarn
  • Presto
  • Flink
  • Jupyterhub
  • Ranger
  • Glue
  • Sagemaker
  • Athena
  • Monitoring tools (Grafana,Azure monitor,AWS Cloudwatch)
  • Storage (Azure ADLS,WASB,Amazon S3)
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
  • Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate
  • Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • Hashicorp Terraform Associate

Timeline

Site Reliability Engineer II

Microsoft
03.2022 - Current

Cloud Support Engineer

Amazon
09.2019 - 03.2021

Hadoop Admin

VISA Inc.
04.2018 - 09.2019

Hadoop L3 support

IBM India
06.2015 - 04.2018

Linux Admin

IBM India Pvt Ltd
06.2013 - 05.2015

B.E - Electronics and Instrumentation

Madras Institute of Technology Campus, Anna University
Aadithya Nirmal