Vikrant Tripathi, Manager, Platform Engineering

Vikrant Tripathi

Manager, Platform Engineering

Mindbody

Location
India - Pune
Education
Master's degree, MCA
Experience
20 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 5 Months

Manager, Platform Engineering at Mindbody
  • India - Pune
  • My current job since July 2020

❖ Built and trained Platform team in Pune from scratch.
❖ Oversee and provide strategic direction for Cloud Infrastructure & Platform engineering teams.
❖ Leading a team of seasoned technical specialists for continuous design, development, and testing lifecycle
to bring new features for different platforms.
❖ Provide Mindbody a secure, reliable, efficient, and scalable platform for running containerized workloads
through the continuous pursuit of technological enhancement, comprehensive automation.
❖ Analyse ongoing operational work and seek to improve efficiency through automation and process
improvement to reduce KLO efforts.
❖ Plan and implement key Platform upgrades like EKS, Calico, Istio and dependent components.
❖ Mentoring and helping platform engineers to build various AWS Solutions using AWS services.
❖ Performing sprint ceremonies.
❖ Coordinate with Global counterparts on standards and processes.

Manager, DevOps at FireEye
  • India - Pune
  • January 2017 to July 2020

❖ Recruited and trained DevOps team in Pune.
❖ Supported FaaS projects and automated project workflow services.
❖ Analyzed and resolved issues in application deployment activities.
❖ Suggested and implemented workflows for operational efficiency.
❖ Formulated and executed monitoring strategies for application services.
❖ Participated in understanding of business requirements and release schedules.
❖ Generated and reported project status and updated to seniors.
Maintained application releases and reviewed all software modifications.
❖ Created and managed different internal and external applications.
❖ Written several puppet modules to automate Applications.
❖ Managing System resources using Puppet, Ansible and Jenkins.
❖ Worked on Git and Artifactory for code repository.
❖ Upgraded existing Atlassian Stash server and Artifactory Servers.
❖ Worked on NewRelic and DataDog APM monitoring.
❖ Setup ELK servers for logging.
❖ Worked on Nuxeo (Contect Management System), Mule, Redis and Memcached Servers.
❖ Worked on different loadbalancers like F5, haproxy and nginx.
❖ Worked on Vagrant setup.
❖ Worked on cloud solutions (AWS).

Senior Infrastructure development Engineer at FireEye (formerly iSIGHT Partners)
  • India - Pune
  • September 2014 to December 2016

Responsibilities
 Managing more than 500 machines those includes Linux, Windows and storage frames with Lab team.
 Planned and implemented physical migration of DC from one location to another in same city.
 Budget planning and execution of planned budget and adjusting the budget according to the project need.
 Coordination with Vendors.
 Single point of contact for all kinds of Server, Storage, Cloudstack related problem.
 Creating and Managing storage on all flavors of Unix.
 Planned and implemented Icinga2 monitoring system for Infrastructure.
 Planned and implemented Zenoss monitoring system for Infrastructure.
 Installed Puppet master server for QA.
 Creating and Managing storage on all flavors of Linux.

Senior Lab System Engineer at Symantec
  • India - Pune
  • August 2012 to September 2014

Responsibilities
 Managing more than 4000 machines those includes Linux, Solaris, HP, AIX and storage frames EMC, Hitachi, Sun, NetApp, HP, IBM with Lab team.
 Budget planning and execution of planned budget and adjusting the budget according to the project need.
 Coordination with Vendors in installation of storage sub systems.
 Single point of contact for all kinds of Storage related problem.
 Creating and Managing storage on all flavors of Unix.
 Management of Hitachi Data system storages and creating LUNs, Masking the LUNs of storage system.
 Management of EMC system DMX 800 using solution enabler, ECC and SMC for LUNs masking and managing LUNs.
 Configuration of Hitachi True copy, Hitachi universal replication, Hitachi Shadowimage, Clariion Mirrorview and HP CA for replication of Data.
 Configuration and installation of Brocade switch and Managing zones in SAN switch
 Installation and configuration on Veritas Cluster server (VCS 5.0).
 Installation and configuration of Veritas volume Manager 5.0.
 Developed Performance monitoring tools which gives all the performance related data on all the machines.
 Experience on EMC TimeFinder operations(BCV and SRDF related)

Brand SPOC, Storage lab and Software Test Specialist at IBM
  • India - Pune
  • August 2010 to August 2012

Responsibilities
 Managing more than 1000 machines those includes Linux, Solaris, HP, AIX and storage frames IBM with Lab team.
 Budget planning and execution of planned budget and adjusting the budget according to the project need.
 Coordination with Vendors.
 Single point of contact for all kinds of Storage related problem.
 Creating and Managing storage on all flavors of Unix.
 Configuration and installation of Brocade switch and Managing zones in SAN switch.

Senior Lab System Engineer at Symantec
  • India - Pune
  • March 2007 to August 2010

Responsibilities
 Managing more than 4000 machines those includes Linux, Solaris, HP, AIX and storage frames EMC, Hitachi, Sun, NetApp, HP, IBM with Lab team.
 Budget planning and execution of planned budget and adjusting the budget according to the project need.
 Coordination with Vendors in installation of storage sub systems.
 Single point of contact for all kinds of Storage related problem.
 Creating and Managing storage on all flavors of Unix.
 Management of Hitachi Data system storages and creating LUNs, Masking the LUNs of storage system.
 Management of EMC system DMX 800 using solution enabler, ECC and SMC for LUNs masking and managing LUNs.
 Configuration of Hitachi True copy, Hitachi universal replication, Hitachi Shadowimage, Clariion Mirrorview and HP CA for replication of Data.
 Configuration and installation of Brocade switch and Managing zones in SAN switch
 Installation and configuration on Veritas Cluster server (VCS 5.0).
 Installation and configuration of Veritas volume Manager 5.0.
 Developed Performance monitoring tools which gives all the performance related data on all the machines.
 Experience on EMC TimeFinder operations(BCV and SRDF related)
Major Achievements
 Planned and implemented smooth DC movement to ensure minimum downtime, structured lab arrangement for better manageability and enhanced user experience.
 Awarded with level-1 Award for DC movement.
 DR setup for almost all storage frames.

Assistant Manager at GE
  • India - Hyderabad
  • March 2006 to March 2007

Responsibilities
• Storage queue management.
• Handling complex storage changes and critical incidents. Planning & executing storage migration activities.
• Preparing SOP’s for regular activities.
• Handling daily calls with business leaders with status updates on previous days changes and incidents.
• Providing assistance to team members in preparation of RCAs for the problems.
• Technical help to the team members.
• In-depth knowledge on EMC storages, SAN switches Administration.
• Monitoring SAN status using ECC.
Major Achievements
• Silver Award for best performer of the year.
• Planned and implemented data migration activity for Several HP and Windows servers.
• Highest PIR rating thru year on account of maximum closer of Incidents.

Senior System Administrator at TCS
  • India - Hyderabad
  • December 2003 to February 2006

Responsibilities
• Systems Administration of Sun Solaris 2.8, HP-UX 11i(11.11).
• Installation and administration of OS and latest patch bundles on HP-UX and solaris.
• User administration, software administration, printer administration & administering cronjobs.
• Installing and using performance-monitoring tools like top, glance.
• Configuring the network (TCP/IP). HBA installation and configuration. Implementation of Secure shell (SSH)
• Installation and administration of Veritas Volume Manager and using the same for disk management.
• Administration of File Systems using Veritas and LVM.
• Worked on Sun and Veritas Cluster(Ver 4.0) environment.
• Moving Lun’s from one host to another host with data using Veritas volume manager and HP Logical volume manager.
• Creating, deporting and importing disk groups, modifying volume and filesystem sizes in Veritas Volume Manager.
• Installation of Solution Enabler Software. Assigning, de-assigning LUNS from Storage to Hosts through SYMCLI and ECC and making disk groups and filesystems.
• Installation and configuration of EMC Power Path software in HP and Solaris hosts for enabling dual path access to all LUN’s in different modes like load balancing and load sharing mode.
• Installation of EMC Control Center for administrating and monitoring Symmetrix 8830.
• SAN administration of EMC Symmetrix 8830 and TAPE LIBRARY using Symcli, Timefinder, ECC, and EDM (EMC data manager software 5.0 &5.1).
• Creating zones and Zone sets between Fiber Switch ports and HBAs using GIU and CLI.
• Had good idea about functionality and working for RAID system.
• Installation of Time finder for BCV Administration.
• Creating Symmetrix disk groups, Establishing/Splitting BCV’s with Standards, Mounting one set of BCV’s on another server for server less backup and another set for reports purpose.
• Planning, setting up the policies, performance monitoring and reporting using EDM backup tool.
• Worked on different kinds of backups(Symmconnect, sympathy and network) on EMC
Data Manager.
• Coordinating with Respective Vendors and reporting to Manager as per SLAs
• Resolve problems reported by users.
• Involved in defining backup policies for various applications, databases & off-site backup.
• Taking adhoc backup & restore operations on DLT's Tape inventory management.
• Startup & Shutdown of databases.
• Keeping database in begin backup mode, end backup mode for backup purpose.

Datacenter Operations
• As a part of Datacenter Operations, Automated Collection of Call Details Records from Telecom Switches, Automated Alert Mechanism etc.
• Trained New Joinees on Telecom Operations.
• Prepared documentation on Datacenter Operations.
Major Achievements
• Planned and Implemented Newgen Project for the telecom operator billing to ensure timely billing as per TRAI.
• Automated several process for Newgen system writing shell script.

Education

Master's degree, MCA
  • at IGNOU
  • January 2001
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Maths, Chemistry
  • at Gorakhpur University
  • July 1996

from

High school or equivalent, Science
  • at IGNOUGorakhpur University
  • June 1991

from

Specialties & Skills

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Certificate in Kubernetes Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2021
Valid Until:
September 2024
• Hitachi Enterprise Software Solutions training from HDS, Bangalore. (Training)
Training Institute:
Hitachi
Date Attended:
January 2008
Duration:
120 hours
SUN Enterprise Cluster High Availability Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
SUN Microsystem
Date Attended:
September 2004
Duration:
120 hours
• Two days workshop on Star Profile, Singapore - Tata Teleservices Hyderabad. (Training)
Training Institute:
Star Profile
Date Attended:
January 2004
Duration:
72 hours
• Four days training on Veritas Volume Manager in Tata TeleServices (Training)
Training Institute:
Veritas
Date Attended:
April 2004
Duration:
96 hours