Suresh Raju

Platform Engineering

• Built scalable performant infrastructure on top of Kubernetes supporting the cloudera enterprise AI platform with additional focus on FedRamp.
• Mentored teams and leading the adoption of Istio service mesh across different form factors of the platform.
• Collaborated on cross-functional platform initiatives, driving company-wide adoption of standardized tooling across engineering teams and improving developer productivity metrics.

Platform & Infrastructure

• Built and scaled the different parts of the core platform on self managed Kubernetes 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.

Site Reliability Engineering

• Owned performance, reliability, CDN, DNS, data infrastructure and automation.

Senior Manager, Platform & Infrastructure

• Built and managed large-scale infrastructure for a cloud-native MDM SaaS platform on AWS and GCP.
• Responsible for automation, scale, performance and observability of the cloud infrastructure and software stack — Cassandra and Elasticsearch.
• Led a distributed team of infrastructure engineers. Implemented SRE principles for 24×7 support operations.

Senior Manager, Oracle Management Cloud

• Built the DevOps/SRE function for a monitoring and analytics platform deployed globally. Owned observability for CDN, EUM, APM, logs, security and monitoring.
• Built scalable and performant infrastructure for accelerated promotion of services to production.
• Full ownership of deployment, process automation and observability across the entire stack including Hadoop and Kafka clusters.

Technology Management, Open Source & Engagements

• Led and executed data centre management projects across complex enterprise environments.
• Defined and managed crisis engagements that resulted in millions of dollars in retained revenue.
• Official committer for Eclipse on Solaris x86 (Sun Microsystems).
• Represented Sun at conferences and universities on data centre management.

Lead Systems Engineer

• Defined, managed and executed statements of work for Ascom, Qualcomm and World Book.
• Liaised between on-site teams and offshore technology development.