Veeradharanidhara Prabhu V
Vice President, AQR Capital Management
Bangalore
Summary
A highly skilled Linux Administrator with 18 years of hands-on experience in managing and optimizing complex IT infrastructures. Expert in deploying, configuring, and maintaining Linux-based systems with a strong emphasis on automation, scripting, and system efficiency. Proficient in Python and Ansible for scripting, automation and configuration tasks, and well-versed in AWS cloud services for scalable and secure infrastructure management.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Vice President
AQR Capital Management
7 2021 - Current
- Implemented Notification-as-a-Service using AWS services to assist developers with notifications.
- Designed migration plans for various application teams to migrate from in house data center to AWS.
- Designed migration plans for Engineering team applications and infrastructure to AWS, resulting in improved scalability and performance
- Periodically review BCP procedures for Linux Infrastructure.
- Managed the entire life-cycle of Linux systems: installation, configuration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and retirement/decommission
- Engaged in periodic docker image reviews with Security team for any vulnerabilities.
- Mentor team members on technologies used within the firm.
Principal Engineer
Arcesium India Private Limited
05.2017 - 06.2021
- Developed and maintained Linux infrastructure in AWS.
- Collaborated with other technical teams to help them design and plan their projects.
- Assisted development teams to migrate their applications to Docker containers.
- Performed configuration management of Linux infrastructure using Ansible.
- Performed package management for Linux RPMs and in-house packages across all environments.
- Worked with developers and performed performance tuning to optimize their applications.
System and Storage Administrator
Texas Instruments India Private Limited
09.2009 - 04.2016
- Administrated day to day storage (EMC VMAX / Sun Fish Works/ Hitachi HNAS) and Server (Linux) requirements.
- Worldwide Road map planning, upgrades, critical and strategic support contact for Signiant Mobilize application.
- Managed Linux infrastructure (RHEL 5 based) used within Storage Infrastructure.
- Automated daily administration tasks using Python, Perl and Bash.
Associate
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
07.2006 - 08.2009
- Maintained and supported development and production application servers running UNIX / Linux.
- Created detailed documentation of customer issues and resolutions for future reference.
- Monitored Single Sign On applications and responded to customer inquiries in timely manner.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering, India
National Institute of Technology (NIT)
TrichySkills
Amazon Web Services
Linux (RHEL 6/7, AL2), Solaris
Docker, Kubernetes
Python
Ansible
Apache Zookeeper
Apache Nginx
SAN / NAS Storage
Terraform
Information Technology Infrastructure Libraries (ITIL)
Certification
Sun Solaris 10 system administration
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 08/04/85
Marital Status: Married
Languages
English
Tamil
Timeline
Principal Engineer
Arcesium India Private Limited
05.2017 - 06.2021
System and Storage Administrator
Texas Instruments India Private Limited
09.2009 - 04.2016
Associate
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
07.2006 - 08.2009
Vice President
AQR Capital Management
7 2021 - Current
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering, India
National Institute of Technology (NIT)
Sun Solaris 10 system administration
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) version 2
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