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title: "Avinash Sasidharan - Leader, Engineering in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Avinash Sasidharan on Tal

## Headline

Leader, Site Reliability Engineering at Cisco Systems \| Ex\-IpInfusion

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

cursor

github copilot

ollama

openai

## Work experience

Leader, Engineering at Cisco, Dec 2021 \- Present · 4 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at Cisco, Apr 2012 \- Dec 2021 · 9 yrs 9 mos, Bangalore, \- 9\+ years of experience in design, implementation and global operations support for Webex Cloud infrastructure\. \- Efficient in independently handling large installations and upgradation\. \- Lead various cluster build/cutover/migration projects across continents from scratch and worked with various teams to drive it to completion \- Have automated various RPM based\(yum\) and Puppet based deployments\. \- Work with cross functional teams for troubleshooting and providing root cause analysis for each service impacting incident with all possible corrective actions for improvement\. \- Troubleshooting to identify and resolve customer issues related to WebEx Meetings Suite\. \- Work directly with Engineering & Product management teams for continuous enhancements and for troubleshooting\. \- Participate in product design discussions and make recommendations\. \- Prepare Run books and provide training to support teams\. \- Responsible to maintain 24/7 service to customers and reduce mean time to detect\(MTTD\) & mean time to recover \(MTTR\) in case of service interruption thereby meeting the SLA\. \- Experience with Cloud Ops tools like Remedy 7 \(ticketing tool\), MCT, BMC Pro active & Entuity \(device level Monitoring, switch/server/port\), home grown customer simulator \(synthetic transactions\)\. \- Experience in deploying Docker containers and images\. \- Have basic knowledge of Data center virtualization\(VMware\), Application deliver controllers like Citrix Netscaler, Hadoop, Logstash, puppet\. \- Experience with enterprise analytics monitoring solutions \(e\.g\., New Relic, Circonus\) \- Experience in network monitoring solutions \(e\.g\. Thousand eyes, Gomez\) \- Specialties: SAAS, Cloud Operations, Service Engineering / Dev Ops, Enterprise Architecture\.

Associate Software Engineer at IP Infusion, Jul 2011 \- Apr 2012 · 10 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, \- Worked in protocol development of a stack called ZebOS\. \- Developed APIs for Bi\-directional forwarding detection\(BFD\) protocol\.

Marketing Intern at JustGRE, Jul 2010 \- Jun 2011 · 1 yr, Coimbatore, \- Devised a plan for marketing JustGRE in hiring Campus Ambassadors\. \- Interviewed and recruited 100\+ Campus Ambassadors across colleges in India\.

## Education

B\. Tech, Information Technology, amrita school of engineering

XII \(ISC\), Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Computer Science, Lakshmi School

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