Mahesh Koli

About Mahesh Koli

Splunk Certified Admin with over 11+ years of experience in Information Technology field with strong experience as Splunk Developer/Admin, Enterprise Security ES.Optimizes Splunk platform architecture for large-scale and distributed deployments• Strong experience with Splunk 8.x and 7.x product, distributed Splunk architecture and components including search heads, indexes and forwarders.• Experience in Operational Intelligence using Splunk. • Headed Proof-of-Concepts (POC) on Splunk ES and ITSI, mentored and guided other team members on Understanding the use case of Splunk.• Expertise in customizing Splunk for Monitoring, Application Management and Security as per customer requirements and industry best practice.• Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Migration, Trouble-Shooting and Maintenance of Splunk, Passionate about Machine data and operational Intelligence.• Expert in installing and configuring Splunk forwarders on Linux and Windows using script.• Expert in installing and using Splunk apps and addons of various types.• Knowledge on Configuration files in Splunk (props.conf, Transforms.conf, Output.conf, inputs.conf, etc.)• Worked on large datasets to generate insights by using Splunk. • Production error monitoring and root cause analysis using Splunk.• Involved in standardizing SPLUNK forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across Servers • Debug Splunk related and integration issues.• Setup Splunk DMC and maintained Splunk instance for monitoring the health of the clusters• Build, customize and deploy Splunk apps and Dashboards as per internal customers.• Splunk UI experience and able to debug expensive search queries.• Configured Clusters for load balancing and fail over solutions.• Create Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts and Dashboards.

Experience

1. Infra Architecture

   Cognizant

   Aug 2025 — Present · Pune, IN

Education

• TKIET(Autonomous), WARANANAGAR

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Ptc Creo
• Engineering
• Solidworks
• Nx
• Html
• Computer-Aided Design (Cad)
• Mechanical Engineering
• Plm Tools
• Catia
• Microsoft Office
• Cad Intigration
• Autocad
• Teamcenter