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# Aizaz Makandar on Tal

## Headline

Staff Systems Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech India for Enterprise Compute

## About

Dynamic and Self motivated System Reliability Engineer/ System Administrator having passion for server side automation\. KEY SKILLS \- System Administration \- Oracle Enterprise linux \- Kickstart/PXE Boot \- Python \- GitHub \- Flask \- Puppet \- DHCP & DNS \- DNSSEC Implementation \- Verdad \- Nagios \- Splunk , Kibana \- Bootstrap & Material Design Bootstrap \- HTML templating \- MongoDB \- Celery \- Redis/ RabbitMQ \- sqldb and sqllite3 \- HighCharts

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

antigravity

claude code

openai

ChatGPT

Google ADK

Microsoft Copilot

## Work experience

Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech India, May 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech India, Dec 2020 \- May 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech India, Mar 2018 \- Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

IT Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services, Aug 2015 \- Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Working as Infrastructure Automation SME for Apple client \- Internet Service Organization\(ISO\) group\. Few of my key accomplishments in this role included below automations and Process Improvements : \- Python \(with Apple script\) for DC template Automation in Espresso Application \- Python Health\-check script for Cassandra Application Servers \- Using API to access Verdad \(Database Management Tool\) and nmSys \(Monitoring tool\)\. \- Auto alert automation for efficient alert handling \- Availability\-check, Mount issue, Disk utilisation, Puppet\-segregator , Automated mail to End Users, etc\. \- Central Station \(Service Now\) API automation \- Bulk DC ticket creation, Checking alerts that turned green, Burn\-Test status update, to fetch incident\(s\) details, to find all INCs , INC Tasks, SR and SR Tasks open for host\(s\) \- Used MongoDB schema for storing and retrieving security tokens\. Used sqllite for creating logger\. \- Using GitHub for code versioning and confluence for documentation and project progress tracking

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, Aug 2013 \- Jul 2015 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, As System Administrator/Site Reliability Engineer for Apple client \- Internet Service Organization\(ISO\) group \- Management and Monitoring of more than 100k \+ linux servers in production and QA servers for various different verticals for Apple Inc\. \- Using Python for server end automation\. \- Using third party tools like smartctl , MegaCli, mdadm , hpacucli , hpasmcli to diagnose Disk issues , managing Hardware LSI RAIDs and Software RAIDs and checking integrated management logs\. \- Configuring servers from scratch using Kickstart/PXE Boot, and Puppet & Verdad for pushing configuration as per Apps team request\. Maintaining the health of the server round the clock efficiently\. \- Using Ad\-hoc utilities like iostat, netstat , top , sar ,free to collect information system activity and generate reports to observe Disk, CPU, Swap and network subsystems \- Troubleshooting the issues pertaining to OS and system related issues that include CPU & Memory Usage, inode Usage, Volume Usage, NFS mount issues, Network latency, NTP Lagged Time, and Disk Usage\.

Assistant System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, Aug 2012 \- Jul 2013 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, As System Administrator/Site Reliability Engineer for Apple client \- Internet Service Organization\(ISO\) group \- Operate and troubleshooting issues in running systems, including booting into different run levels, identifying processes, and controlling services, DNS and DHCP issue, LDAP, SSH, HTTP,Package management, Puppet issues, Network issues, Drive/disk issues\. \- Maintaining storage using RAID\(software and hardware\) and LVM\(logical volume manager\) \- Creating VIP's for various environments on request basis\. \- Working knowledge of Verdad and Puppet\. \- Performing initial investigation and resolution on third party provided storage systems such as Isilon, TMS,Filers and coordinating with the vendors for advanced support or replacements\. \- Monitoring the flow of data packets through the network\. Tracing the errors / issues in the network path\. Troubleshooting on Ethernet packet drops\. \- Patching and Kernel Upgrades for Labs and Prod Servers \- Raise case with fusion\-io team and implement the solution provided by them on Database hosts\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(BEng\), Electronics and Communications engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University

Pre\-University Course, Physics,Chemistry,Maths and Biology, BASAVESHWAR VEERSHAIVA VIDYAVARDHAK SANGHAS BASAVESHWAR ARTS SCIENCE AND COMMERCER COLLEGE, BAGALKOT

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