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**Suresh Raju**
San Francisco, CA. | Email: suresh@coolmonk.org | Cell: (+1)415.702.5048

## Summary
* Varied experience in building reliable performant public cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, product engineering and security.
* Mentored and led engineering teams that delivered projects for problems in performance, scale and reliability.

## Skills

* Distributed systems in java, go
* Python, perl and shell.
* Security, networking, Kubernetes, Cilium and Envoy service meshes.
* Kafka, Flink and Hadoop.
* Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger and ELK.
* Akamai and CloudFlare.
* AWS, GCP and OCI.
* Redis, Clickhouse, PostgreSQL, Oracle.
* Linux (Ubuntu / CoreOS), Solaris. 
* Vault, Terraform.
* Bazel, Buildkite, Jenkins, ArgoCD.
* GIT, Mercurial, Subversion.

## Experience

### Mux Inc.
**Software Engineer, Platform Engineering**

* Built and scaled the different parts of the core platform on self managed Kuberenetes upon which the video and data platforms were built to power the largest live streaming sporting events.
* Helped scale the video analytics platform support 40 Million concurrent viewers backed by Envoy.
* Part of the team developing and supporting an in-house Starlark based DSL for Kubernetes.
* Helped the company attain ISO27001 certification.
* Worked closely with other engineering teams to deliver a stellar developer experience and increased productivity.

### Optimizely.
**Staff Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering**

* Built scalable and reliable infrastructure for the edge and data pipelines.
* Built frameworks to test configurations across Akamai and Cloudflare CDNs.

### Reltio Inc.
**Senior Manager, Platform and Infrastructure**

* Led a team that built and managed large scalable infrastructure with HIPAA and GDPR compliance for a cloud native Master Data Management SaaS platform using a variety of services on AWS and GCP.

### Oracle.
**Senior Manager, Oracle Management Cloud**

* Built a successful DevOps / SRE for a monitoring and analytics platform spread across the globe. 
* Built scalable and performant infrastructure for accelerated promotion of services to production. 
* Deployment, process automation and observability of the full stack and hadoop / kafka clusters.

### Oracle / Sun Microsystems.
**Technology Management, Open source & Other Engagements**

* Led and executed projects in data center management.
* Successfully executed crisis management engagements generating millions in revenue. 
* Implemented process and innovation initiatives for technology teams.

### Tata Infotech Ltd.
**Lead Systems Engineer**

* Defined, managed and executed on various SOWs for Ascom, QualComm and WorldBook.

## Education
* Masters in Computer Science & Applications, Bharathiyar University, India.
* Bachelors in Science, Computer Science, Bharathiyar University, India.
