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title: "Hariharan I. - Staff Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Hariharan I\. on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Observability at Atlassian

## About

Backend engineer with 16 years of experience in distributed systems, webapps and storage\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

hermes agent

ollama

## Work experience

Staff Software Engineer at Atlassian, Jan 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Developer/tech lead in Observability group, working on improving the alerting, monitoring, and reporting of error events in Atlassian

Software Engineer at Rippling, Jan 2021 \- Sep 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Lead engineer/developer in the hardware team at Rippling\. This team deals with monitoring and management of employee devices\. Some of the responsibilities include: 1\. Management of installed software and profiles on employee devices 2\. Monitoring of the status of the above 3\. Centralized authentication services for WiFi and VPN via RADIUS

Senior Staff Software Engineer at Qubole, Apr 2016 \- Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Lead engineer/developer in the Hadoop and Cloud Platform teams at Qubole\. Some of the projects I worked on are: 1\. Heterogeneous clusters, optimizing the use of available instance types in AWS cloud, which resulted in savings of up to 90% for customers\. 2\. Optimizations in YARN to better utilize cluster nodes, including: i\) Container packing ii\) Memory and CPU overprovisioning 3\. Shuffle data offloading to Lustre on AWS 4\. Storage autoscaling 5\. Predictive autoscaling for ETA clusters

VP of Engineering at NestAway Technologies Pvt Ltd, Sep 2015 \- Mar 2016 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked with a team of engineers to completely rewrite the Search and Booking infrastructure at Nestaway\. Other achievements: 1\. Migrated the Nestaway stack from single machine in Azure to modern, scalable infrastructure on AWS\. 2\. Set up centralized logging infrastructure for easy debugging 3\. Set up automated CI/CD pipeline for the stack

Member Of Technical Staff at Qubole, Apr 2012 \- Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked on the UI and backend stack at Qubole, handling cloud provisioning and Hadoop1, among other things\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Science, National Institute of Technology Karnataka

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