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Sunil Ghanta

Staff Engineer, Databases, Cloud, Kubernetes
Hyderabad

Summary

17+ years of strong experience in Managing, Optimizing, Deploying, Scaling SQL/NoSQL Databases. 5+ Years in Cloud/ Kubernetes.

Certified Kubernetes Security(CKS), Certified Kubernetes Administrator(CKA),
Certified MongoDB DBA(C100DBA) and MongoDB Developer(C100DEV),
Certified AWS Solutions Architect (SAA-C02) and AWS Developer(DVA-C01)

Staff Engineer - Kubernetes, AWS, MongoDB, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Bash Scripting, Linux, Kafka, AWS RDS, DynamoDB.
Knowledge on MapR, HBase, Terraform, Cassandra, etcd, Prometheus/Grafana, Google Cloud / Azure, Python
Experience details below.
MySQL, Linux, Bash Scripting : 8+ yrs
MongoDB, AWS- EC2, RDS, Aurora, S3, VPC, EKS, DynamoDB : 6+ yrs
Kubernetes/Docker, ElasticSearch : 5+ yrs
Kafka, Hadoop, MapR, HBase : 2+ yrs
Terraform, Cassandra, etcd, Prometheus/Grafana, Google Cloud / Azure, Python : ~1 yr

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications

Work History

Staff Engineer

Netskope
Hyderabad
07.2022 - Current
  • Managing & optimizing MongoDB/MySQL/Redis/Kafka in 5000+ Database/Datastore servers.
  • Managed Petabytes of data in ElasticSearch/ Kafka in Kubernetes Cluster.
  • Solid understanding of MongoDB/AWS Cloud/Kubernetes architecture/components
  • Experience in managing large scale distributed DB systems on Cloud platforms Hands-on Replication & Sharding Configuration in MongoDB/MySQL/Redis/Kafka
  • Role includes Optimizing Changes to Prod to minimize Downtime impact, Optimizing Databases and Build deployments and DB Migrations
  • Certified Kubernetes/ AWS/ MongoDB

Sr Database/Cloud/Kubernetes SRE

McAfee
Bengaluru
08.2014 - 06.2022
  • Worked on Projects including MongoDB, MySQL, Elastic Search, Kafka, AWS, EKS. Kubernetes
  • Managed Petabytes of data in Worked Elastic Search, Kafka in Kubernetes Cluster.
  • Upgraded Kubernetes from v1.16 to v1.20
  • Optimized AWS Cloud (EKS, S3, RDS) costs and reduced 400K per month.

Database Lead, Specialist

Wipro / HCL
Bengaluru
05.2011 - 07.2014
  • Worked on Same Aadhaar Project from 2011 to 2014.
  • Solid understanding and Handson MongoDB/Hadoop/MapR/MySQL
  • Automating DB related tasks, created MISDB using Bash scripts.
  • Role includes administering Mongo DB, MySQL, Hadoop and Prepare Queries on HIVE to generate Reports and help team in resolving technical issues

Technical Lead

Zeta Interactive
Hyderabad
02.2007 - 04.2011
  • Query optimization: Optimizing MySQL queries for better and faster performance
  • Debugging Application issues and provide workaround if required
  • Developing shell scripts to automate regular tasks.
  • Involved in Database Upgrades, Indexing, finding slow queries & Optimization.

Education

Master of Science - Computers Science

VSM College
Ramachandrapuram
08.2000 - 09.2003

Skills

Kubernetes, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Redis, Linux Bash, Ansible, GCP, AWS Aurora, DynamoDB, EKS, RDS, MapR, Hbase, etcd, Cassandra, Prometheus/Gafana, Terraform, Python

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Certification

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist(CKS)

Timeline

Staff Engineer

Netskope
07.2022 - Current

Sr Database/Cloud/Kubernetes SRE

McAfee
08.2014 - 06.2022

Database Lead, Specialist

Wipro / HCL
05.2011 - 07.2014

Technical Lead

Zeta Interactive
02.2007 - 04.2011

Master of Science - Computers Science

VSM College
08.2000 - 09.2003
Sunil GhantaStaff Engineer, Databases, Cloud, Kubernetes