Priyan S

Senior Support Engineer at GitLab Inc.

Ernakulam, Kerala, India

About

Experienced Platform Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Hadoop, DevOps and Cloud. Strong information technology professional with a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) focused in Computer Science from Mahatma Gandhi University , Kerala, India.

Experience

  • GitLab (Full-time · 6 yrs 6 mos)
    • Senior Support Engineer
      Oct 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

      Helping customers solve their problems

    • Support Engineer
      Jan 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Working in Linux and its fancy sub-systems !

  • Platform Engineer (BigData, Cloud, DevOps, Linux) at Tata Consultancy Services
    Oct 2013 - Jan 2020 · 6 yrs 4 mos

    Experience in following technologies : BigData / Hadoop --------------------- 1. Hortonworks HDP 2. Cloudera 3. Setting up Bigdata stack on Cloud platforms - AWS, Google Cloud and VMware 4. Talend, Protegrity, Birst : Beginner 5. Spark 6. Hive, Tez and Impala 7. Sentry and Ranger and other BigData tools. Cloud computing and Virtualization ---------------------------------------------- 1. OpenStack 2. OpenNebula DevOps & CI/CD ---------------------------------------- 1. Kubernetes 2. Docker 3. Jenkins 2. Git Configuration management ----------------------------------- 1. SaltStack 2. Ansible Centralized user management ---------------------------------------- 1. FreeIPA centralized authentication(using kerberos) 2. Clonezilla disk cloning and mass provisioning Bare-metal Provisioning -------------------------------- 1. Deb bootstrap for ubuntu with diskless (using pxe) booting Version control ------------------- 1. GitLab

  • Linux Server Engineer at SparkSupport Infotech Pvt Ltd
    Jul 2011 - Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Let me try to give a brief idea about my roles here: Virtualization Platforms ---------------------------------- 1. Xen / XenServer and related services XenMotion/HA etc. 2. VMware Esx/Esxi and related services like vMotion/HA etc. 3. KVM / Qemu-KVM / Qemu Cloud Computing Platforms --------------------------------------- 1. Xen Cloud Platform with XenAPI Tool stack (XCP-XAPI) 2. Basics of OpenStack and OpenNebula. 3. Amazon EC2 and associated Services. Email Servers --------------------- 1. PowerMTA. 2. Postfix. 3. Exim. 4. Basic level knowledge of MS Exchange Server and other Linux mailservers. Web Servers -------------------- 1. Apache - Advanced configs : reverse proxy / HA / SNI / LB / Tuning etc. 2. Nginx - Advanced configs : reverse proxy / HA / SNI / LB / Tuning etc. Database Servers -------------------------- 1. MySQL - Performance tuning / read-write optimizaion / replication / clustering / tweaking. 2. PostgreSQL - Basics Firewalls --------------- 1. pfsense 2. iptables Services ------------- 1. Server Hardening and Security Auditing. 2. Troubleshooting ANYTHING related to Linux machines. 3. Application installation and configuration. Configuration Management and Auto-Commissioning ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Puppet 2. Cobbler and KickStart Scripting ------------- 1. Expert at Bash 2. Good at PHP 3. Good at Perl and continues ...