Ravikanth Garimella

• Managing search bar at Linkedin.
• Ensuring results returned for search are never stale.
• Ensure continuous service availability.
• Building tools to ensure Turn Around Time(TAT) for detecting issue is less.
• Running blameless postmortems to diagnose issues in detail, and ensuring respective action items, such that issue doesn't re-occur.
• Building tooling (or) integrating to central solutions around hardware maintenance.
• Automatic Capacity Management.
• Tweaking monitoring alerts for transient issues by working with stakeholders.

Data Services team is responsible for ensuring data availability for executive level reporting within a given SLA.

• Managing LinkedIn data and operating LinkedIn highly scalable and massive data ingestion pipelines consuming data from multiple sources (Kafka, Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL & Third party vendors).
• Responsible for handling data logistics between multi-colo Hadoop clusters with strict SLAs in place.
• Builds tools that helping triage debug issues efficiently.
• Setup alerting and monitoring.

Everest is a Credit Risk Application, which identifies what the Risk Exposure is, if a loan has been defected.

• Requirement gathering from business stakeholders for Credit Risk Application.
• Understanding the requirement, breaking down the problem to be able to code.
• Working with testing team to capture test scenarios for the requirements.
• Writing PL/SQL workflows for Credit Risk Applications.
• Seamless deployments of the applications to UAT and Production applications.
• Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in the application workflow and working to improve overall team performance.

• Managing about 40 databases.
• Building automation for space reports, End of Month activities and data purging activities.
• Working on customer tickets of query performance tuning, table schema reviews for new applications etc.
• 12 * 7 support in shifts to manage databases.
• Database Patching and upgrading upon new Oracle Database Releases.
• Participated in situation management of incidents to support database operations.
• Leading postmortems during issues.