Rahul Rai

About Rahul Rai

whoamiI am passionate about Data Center technologies specially open source techs are my favorite.I have an interesting experience of serving for number of global clients like Apple Inc, UnitedHealth Group, Honeywell Inc and Qualcomm Inc.I work to make data centers alive and let applications/databases float around and serve for the production environmentMy areas of strength are -Building Data Centers (Linux)Hadoop Eco System Infra BuildLinux AdministrationShell scripts to automate the stuffs in LinuxApache CloudstackNAS/SAN file system administrationLVMUser AdministrationPuppetSVN & GITSplunk forwarders/indexers setupCapacity PlanningWriting KB articles/confluence/jiveInfra setup for sql and non sql DBs (MongoDB, Couchbase, Oracle, Goldengate, Vertica DB etc.)Solution and implementation of Linux Infra based requirementsProcess streamline The kind of environments I have worked on - Private clouds- Data Center hosted servers- Engineering and Operations- Project ownership and delivery - Coordination with Business ownersI hold number of professional certifications as below- Red hat certified system engineer- Red hat certified security and network services Red hat certified virtualization administrator- VMware Certified Professional - Red hat certified openstack administrator

Experience

1. Lead Infrastructure Engineer

   Salesforce

   Oct 2021 — Present · Dallas, TX, US

   Technologies, Product, and Services- Packer + Github Action + Slack: OS golden image pipeline to populate cloud agnostic Linux and windows image, includes all the security agents, CSI benchmarking and bootstrap scripts- Ansible + Github Action + Slack: VM and VMware Virtual Datacenter deployment - Virtualization: VMware vSphere8, Apache CloudStack, and Red Hat OpenShift- Puppet + Ansible + Github Action + Slack: Configuration management and Automated Compliance Audit- Golang + DocumentDB: Built dynamic servers inventory management system with more than 20 attributes supportedMajor Projects- Datacenter Migration- CentOS to RHEL Migration- Linux and Windows Golden Image Factory and Adoption- Self-Developed Dynamic Inventory Management System, Adoption and Lifecycle Management- MFA (Okta + Radius) Implementation on Linux Servers

Education

• Western Governors University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Information Technology Management

• Ambedkar Institute of Technology

  Diploma in Engineering, Information Technology ESM

  2007 — 2010

• Madurai Kamaraj University

  Bachelor's degree, BCA

  2014 — 2016

• CBSE Board

  High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates

  2005 — 2006

Skills

• Dhcp
• Databases
• Virtualization
• Apache
• Red Hat Linux
• Advertising
• Operating Systems
• Business Development
• Domain Name System (Dns)
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (Dhcp)
• Marketing Strategy
• Marketing
• Netapp Filers
• Linux System Administration
• San
• Rhel
• Team Management
• Networking
• Redhat Virtualization
• Linux
• Nfs
• Unix
• Servers
• Dns
• Data Center
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• System Administration