Basavaraj M
Principal Software Engineer
Bangalore
Summary
Skilled Principal Software Engineer with ~18 years of experience adept at executing development strategies via unique management and design style. Known for tackling unforeseen hiccups in software creation with agility and tireless commitment. Creative innovator of novel approaches to time-worn problems, proficient at employing colleagues and resources to combat everything from minor bugs to catastrophic software failures.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Principal Software Engineer I
Cloudera
10.2019 - Current
- Ideated, designed and evangelized an auto failure traige system code named Apollo. Mentored, lead, and added GenAI features for Jira enhancement features.
- Ideated, architected, collaborated, implemented and evangelized a fault injection framework that works seamlessly across cloud providers, on prem + cloud forms, os's, deployment forms with chaos fault injections and cutting edge features like replayable event logs, Bring Your Own Faults.
- This system is used by default across Cloudera for any resiliency testing now.
Staff Software Engineer
Intuit
12.2014 - 09.2019
- Worked with Intuit Data Platform on multiple projects over a period of 4+ years- Batch Data Ingestion, Stream Data Ingestion platforms, Storage as a Resilient service, and ETL pipelines.
- Wore multiple hats - lead, test automation architect, full-stack engineer, scrum master, and point of contact for customers.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products on schedule.
Tech Lead
Yahoo
01.2011 - 12.2014
- Primarily worked on designing and implementing test automation frameworks and test suites for both back-end and front-end systems for local.yahoo.com, Yahoo Cricket, travel and shopping direct display projects.
Quality Engineer
Misys
09.2009 - 01.2011
- Projects: BankFusion, eMail based Remote Access Interface (unstructured time project)
Senior Software Engineer
Huawei Technologies
08.2006 - 09.2009
- Projects: XMLFramework, Northbound Interface ( CORBA, 3GPP, SNMP)
Education
Master of Science in Software Systems -
BITS, Pilani
11.2012 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communications - undefined
BIET (Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology), Davangere
06.2002 - 05.2006
Skills
Software Systems Design
Designing extensible and scalable distributed systems
Java (10 years of experience)
Python (5)
Shell Scripting(5)
Data Structures and Algorithms (8)
Design Patterns
Big Data (4) - Hadoop, Hive, Spark, YARN, Kafka, Kafka connect, Avro, parquet
Databases - MySQL, Oracle; SQL
Test frameworks - JUnit(2), TestNG(10), PyTest(1)
Webdriver- Selenium(4)- UI automation (4)
AWS - S3, EMR, EC2, RDS
Docker - containerisation
Build - Ant, Maven, Jenkins, CI, CD pipelines(Hands on)
Testing (11) - Test automation framework design and implementation, Chaos Engineering, Failure Injection Testing and automation
Opens ource contributions
- DolphinNG - TestNG add on for smarter, simpler reports and analytics!, https://github.com/basavaraj1985/DolphinNG
- Universal Mock Server - a simple configuration based mock any server, https://github.com/basavaraj1985/MockServer
- Search Test Robot - a test framework for test generation, dynamic binding of validators to tests and smart report generation, https://github.com/basavaraj1985/SearchTestRobot
- Contributions to chaos engineering section of Cloud Raider, https://github.com/intuit/CloudRaider
Languages
Kannada
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional
Hindi
Limited Working
Awards
- Intuit - Multiple spotlight awards for displaying Intuit values.
- Yahoo! - Papers selected for Tech Pulse events 2012 and 2013.
- Huawei - Quality Consciousness award, Defect Star, Rookie of the Year awards, 2006-09.
Interests
GenAI, ML
Quote
Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.
Tony Robbins
Timeline
Principal Software Engineer I
Cloudera
10.2019 - Current
Staff Software Engineer
Intuit
12.2014 - 09.2019
Master of Science in Software Systems -
BITS, Pilani
11.2012 - 05.2014
Tech Lead
Yahoo
01.2011 - 12.2014
Quality Engineer
Misys
09.2009 - 01.2011
Senior Software Engineer
Huawei Technologies
08.2006 - 09.2009
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communications - undefined
BIET (Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology), Davangere
06.2002 - 05.2006