Karthik Vijayendra
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Specialist with strong problem-solving skills and proactive approach to tackling complex challenges. Demonstrates proven track record in delivering innovative solutions that drive efficiency and productivity. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve strategic goals and enhance operational performance. Committed to continuous improvement and fostering culture of excellence within organisations.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Specialist Design Engineer
British Telecom, India
08.2023 - Current
- Worked as Streaming architect and managed the confluent Kafka setup on various platforms.
- Involved various POCs in Confluent Kafka to make it self-serve.
- Worked on finding the alternatives to confluent and explored strimzi and setup the strimzi poc cluster.
- Have good understanding of various kafka connectors and kafka components.
- Worked as an SRE and Implemented observability of kafka cluster using dynatrace and setup monitoring guardrails.
- Worked on the remediation frameworks and auto remediate the incidents.
- Collaborated effectively with stakeholders, partners and project teams to aid timely delivery against technical roadmaps.
- Led cross-functional teams in high-stakes environments, fostering collaboration and driving successful outcomes.
Technical Lead
Torry Harris Integration Solutions
05.2014 - 07.2022
- Design, development and implementation support of ETL and Streaming applications using multiple ETL toolset like AbInitio, StreamSets, and Confluent Kafka across different clouds - GCP and AWS
- Design and Setup of Confluent self-managed/cloud Kafka in hybrid and multi cloud environments - on-prem, GCP and AWS.
- Managed diverse technical projects through process change, improvements and roll-outs.
- Responded to critical system outages with prompt and effective troubleshooting, minimising downtime and business impact.
Education
BE - Electrical and Electronics
Global Academy of Technology
2011
Skills
- ETL Tools - Ab Initio, and StreamSets
- Streaming Tools - Confluent Kafka - Self managed and cloud
- Scripting Languages - Unix shell scripting, Groovy
- Scheduling Tools - A>I Control Center, Cron, Confluent C3
- Monitoring Tools - Dynatrace, Prometheus
- Cloud – GCP and AWS
- ITSM tools - Service Now, Confluence Wiki and Jira, HPSM
Technical Skills
AbInitio
- Having vast experience in Design and Development of Batch and Continuous applications using Ab Initio.
- Have hands on experience in using Ab Initio products like GDE 3.3.3/3.2/3.1.7 versions, Co>Operating system, conduct>it, query>it, controlcenter,continuous flows, ICFF
- Developed applications using Ab Initio to Extract, Transform and Load the data from various sources using multiple components like Reformat, Scan, Sort, Rollup, Join, Partition by key,Read JSON,Write JSON,WMF,RMF,Contineous Subscribe/Publish etc.
- Well Versed in using the air commands, m-commands and ab-qe commands.
- Worked in the design and development of plans using Conduct>IT.
- Worked on Ab Initio Query Engine to ingest aquery data into ICFF volumes and read them as lookups/WS/flat files.
- Have experience in upgrading the Query Engine to higher versions and supported the live deployment.
- Comprehensive knowledge in UNIX Shell commands and shell scripting.
- Worked in CI-CD setup and integration of Ab Initio with Jenkins for automated deployments
- Dynatrace Dashboards were built by ingesting the AbInito logs.
Confluent Kafka
- Worked on Installation and setup of confluent Kafka on multiple staging environments on On – Prem and GCP – cloud environments.
- Experienced in configuring the Confluent Kafka using cp-ansible playbooks.
- Hands-on experience in zookeeper, Broker, schema registry, control center and Kafka Connect components.
- Setup the Security and Role Based Access Control on each environment.
- Have experience in setting up the SSL – mTLS and SASL PLAIN based authentication mechanisms.
- Worked on metadata Service setup for LDAP integration of Authentication of users.
- Setup the Kafka observability with log monitoring tools - Graphana, Prometheus and Dynatrace
- Worked on the poc for strimzi Kafka and set up the cluster for low priority workloads.
Timeline
Specialist Design Engineer
British Telecom, India
08.2023 - Current
Technical Lead
Torry Harris Integration Solutions
05.2014 - 07.2022
BE - Electrical and Electronics
Global Academy of Technology
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