Design and Development

DevOps

Product Management

Field Delivery

Community Management

Entrepreneurship

Designed and implemented the CI/CD platform for Tesla - I was hired by Tesla to build their CI/CD platform. I named the project ATM (pronounced 'Adam'), conceptualized it with inputs from targetted stakeholders, and implemented it using a combination of open-source and built-from-scratch code. It continues to onboard in-house software to this day and has become the de-facto CI/CD standard inside the company.

Produced a Kubernetes toolkit for Teradata - Teradata needed a toolkit for configuring Kubernetes that catered to the company’s very specific needs. I mentored a team of DevOps engineers to produce this toolkit called KubeKit. I focused on equipping the team with Scrum/Agile practices as well as a CI/CD platform allowing them to iterate quickly and deliver a 1.0 release within 5 months.

Increased billing module accuracy and speed - When a former employer’s billing module was producing inaccurate results, I took on the task of debugging the problem. After finding the cause, I introduced a number of fixes that improved the speed and accuracy of the reports.

Contributed to the fast delivery of the Cisco 9K OVSDB plugin - Dimension Data needed to deliver an agent that allowed Cisco 9K switches to work with VMware NSX. I volunteered to study the associated open standards as well as the proprietary protocols for which we didn’t have any documentation at the time. I codified everything that I learned into a fully automated test harness that became part of the team’s CI/CD pipeline.

Talked at various meetups and conferences - I’ve presented on various topics such as HA Kubernetes Outside the Cloud (SF k8s Meetup 2017), How to Write Fully-Tested Ansible Modules (AnsibleFest NY 2016), Deploying OpenShift with Ansible (Internal talk 2016), Baking and Frying Machine Images (jFrog SwampUP Napa Valley 2017), Multi-node DevStack with Puppet (OpenStack Summit Atlanta 2014), How I Built My Own BDD Framework (Ruby on Rails Meetup, Los Angeles 2013), and Introducing Scratch Programming (2nd-grade Classroom 2017).

Reduced a 2-day manual process to 5 seconds - While building the MIS for a metal fabrication shop, I learned about a manual process that took shop floor engineers 2 days to complete. After some research, I was able to build a desktop app that reduced the computation time to 5 seconds.

Recipient of academic excellence award for best strategic plan - I wanted to understand the business of software and decided that focusing on the basics of business management was key. I then applied for our state university’s graduate program for management where I was accepted. During the program, I was top of class for Operations Management, Financial Management, and Business Strategy. I then used everything that I learned to create a strategic plan for our family business which resulted in me getting the academic excellence award for best strategic plan.

Produced Kubernetes Operators for Grafana, Prometheus, and AlertManager using Juju, a Canonical product for automating the provisioning and configuration of servers and containers. The three operators are able to automatically connect to each other via Juju’s relations functionality. Demo Video

Delivered MAAS, OpenStack, and Charmed Kubernetes in various customer sites.

Produced an internal guide for validating a customer’s existing Kubernetes Cluster that was installed using Kubespray/Kubeadm.

Produced a beginner’s guide for developing a Python-based Kubernetes Operator for those just getting started with Kubernetes Operators. Video

Produced demo videos for pre-sales purposes that highlights the features of Kubernetes. Video.

Produced a guide for colleagues about proper Python dependency management. Video.

Produced a video for the benefit of those who are just starting with Juju Charms development. Video

Produced a tool that allows DevOps Engineers to work together on the same remote terminal. Especially useful for situations where a team needs to debug a server collectively. Github Repo

Assembled a board of directors to oversee the direction of the company. The board was composed of a former IT manager, an electronics and communications engineer, and a certified public accountant.

Built the company from the ground up with proper support for sales and engineering. Both departments synced up twice weekly via stand ups and a shared task board. All communications were logged in a sales database that allowed sales and engineering to stay synchronized.

Achieved a decent rise in revenue in its first year to be nearly self sustaining within a year but was hit hard by the pandemic and lock downs just when it was about to break even.

Designed and implemented a CI/CD platform that software engineers used for their applications. They onboarded their projects via a declarative YAML file that they commit with their code. The platform provided services such as (1) container image build and publish, (2) Unit, integration, and black box testing, (3) static code analysis, (4) chat notifications, (5) build health dashboards, (6) auto-DB migration, and (7) blue-green deployments to Kubernetes. The project has since matured to have a internal community of contributors as well as a collection of over 600 services being managed.

Team Lead for the internal Kubernetes distribution project called KubeKit. This project is a core critical component of all the microservices-based products that Teradata is building. I led the team, provided product requirements guidance, wrote code, as well as oversaw the internal community management aspects that were necessary to onboard the various products and programs on top of the project. I also worked on growing the team such that it can support all the Kubernetes requirements of the aforementioned Teradata products.  

I functioned as the DevOps Engineer for the AppCenter project where I was responsible for guiding the architecture of the team’s software manufacturing pipeline. I designed the pipeline and also did the initial implementation. I later served as an adviser/mentor to the team members that were implementing the rest of the design. This software manufacturing pipeline is critical in ensuring the timely delivery and quality of AppCenter which is a central component of Teradata’s UDA program.  

I was a member of Teradata’s internal DevOps Technology Council. This council is tasked to collate, curate, and evangelize the DevOps best practices across Teradata to improve its Engineering operational efficiency and effectiveness. I was assigned to the “standardized processes” component of the framework that the council is building.  

Designed and implemented a non-interactive agent that automatically launched time-bound AWS spot instances as needed for use as auxiliary Jenkins workers that handled non-time-critical builds.

Wrote Ansible modules to be used for provisioning resources on Dimension Data’s cloud service.

Developed an Ansible-based project that deployed an HA OpenShift PoC for our CI/CD pipeline.

Designed and implemented the full stack of a web application that was designed to transform data from one format to another. The system used Rails, Postgres, Redis (for job queueing), Resque, and Ceph both for persistent block and object storage.

Designed and implemented the automated test harness for the N9K OVSDB plugin for NSX.

Designed and implemented the Cisco N9K OVSDB plugin CLI utility.

Mentored development teams in new technologies, standards, and even 3rd-party protocols that they needed to incorporate or interface to. This allowed them to hit the ground running and deliver within budget.

Designed and developed a billing module for the product.

Wrote a Ruby client library for the OpenStack API.

Wrote a Cucumber-based integration test for the QA team.

Mentored developers on proper software development practices.

Helped set up the CI tools and process to ensure the main branch always has deployable, stable code.

Oversaw the design and implementation of Morph AppSpace, one of the earliest Platform-as-a-Service providers built on top of AWS in the market.

Managed the product roadmap to ensure that requirements are prioritized properly and that they contain the right information.

I helped Marketing Communications in their effort to generate product information for various marketing collateral.

Implemented agile practices in Engineering to ensure timely delivery of stories and an overall coordinated effort of releases.

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