aakash bhalla
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at PlayStation
application performance & log management
• 13 year experience application performance monitoring log analytics ; designed , developed managed splunk enterprise ca apm solution scale ; currently working sr. site reliability engineer sony playstation network ( sony interactive entertainment ) since 2015 . • strong functional expertise architecting splunk enterprise ca apm solution . • proficient designing , implementing , managing automating aws devops environment . • working experience linux , kubernetes window environment . • integrated splunk ca apm 3rd party tool nagios , kubernetes , sensu etc . • support performance tuning expertise production application . • providing training various business technology group usage splunk apm . • effective communicator excellent relationship building & interpersonal skill . • posse analytical , problem solving & organizational ability flexible & detail-oriented attitude .
PlayStation
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Leading primary Splunk administration and development team, with infrastructure presence both on-prem and in AWS:
•	Providing technical expertise in right-sizing, architecting and deploying Splunk indexer, search head clusters and forwarder tiers in AWS.
•	Migrating Splunk environment and data from on-prem to AWS.
•	First to implement Splunk Smartstore at scale to leverage AWS s3 as a storage tier to achieve cost reductions. Initially migrated ~1PB of local stored data (Currently ~3PB). Achieved ~70% of cost reduction in operating costs.
•	Architecting and consolidation of 3 large Splunk clusters into one global Splunk environment.
•	Keeping the cadence of upgrading Splunk environment to latest version and working in tandem with Splunk support to uncover issues get fixes in place on time.
•	Development of applications, custom search queries and creation of custom visualized dashboards.
•	Mentoring team's junior engineers to help improve their Splunk capability.
•	Providing lead technical consultation for all Splunk operational automation processes. Working with team to identify operational and/or technical improvement initiatives for Splunk operating environment.
•	Working with Team Manager to put together and execute Roadmap of new capability and features for Splunk.
• Designing, implementing, managing and automating Splunk and APM in AWS DevOps environment. Leveraging AWS technologies like autoscaling, availability zone (AZ) resiliency, scalability etc to make sure the APM and Splunk are always on and available:
•	Splunk and APM environments were developed as part of AWS immutable infrastructure. Deployed using AWS code pipeline, spread across multiple AZ. Leveraging AWS autoscaling to overcome various failures scenarios. Making sure environment is available 24 x 7.
•	Leveraging Splunk multisite architecture and map sites with AWS AZ to recover from AZ failure scenarios.
San Diego
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Staff Site Reliability Engineer
A&I Solutions, Inc
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Designing, developing, monitoring and managing enterprise Application Performance Management monitoring solutions.
Consulting clients and understanding their requirements for APM deployments.
Providing technical expertise throughout the installation, configuration, application monitoring, performance management, problem diagnosis and root cause analysis.
Identifying technical issues and supporting them during product deployment, serving as product expert and provide technical continuity during client engagement.
Assisting with the APM tuning and problem diagnosis
Integration APM with other third party technologies.
Atlanta, Gerogia
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APM Technical Architect
Intuit
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• Responsible for supporting and maintaining the enterprise level product support for Wily Introscope and other enterprise tools (Cacti, Splunk, Spectrum and Sitescope).
• Responsible for Installation, upgrading and managing core infrastructure of Wily APM Introscope & CEM, Splunk, Cacti and Sitescope.
• Take ownership of complex issues and provide enhanced support for the Wily, Cacti and Splunk products.
• Analyzing issues and extract relevant data to troubleshoot and recreate issues.
• Integrating different tools for end to end monitoring needs.
• Automating daily tasks using different scripting technologies
• Enhance a positive customer experience by:
•	Creating high quality knowledge-base documents.
•	Providing technical assistance to team-members by coordinating ownership of escalations for the monitoring tools.
•	Collaborating with team members to facilitate resolution.
•	Improving product quality by identifying and documenting predominant customer issues which require assessment by the Planning Team.
Bangalore, India
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Systems Engineer
Bank of America
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Providing end to end product support for CA’s Wily Introscope across the environments. EM and agent’s installation, configurations and custom instrumentation.
Production Application troubleshooting and root cause analysis. Identifying the problems and supporting it with evidence and reaching out to team on how to correct it.
JVM performance tuning. Providing recommendation to the application team on heap size, Garbage collection and stack size to increase the application performance.
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Sr Systems Engineer
Crystal Hues Limited
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•	Developing ecommerce online shopping portal using ASP.NET & C# using OPP concepts. Including online transactions management, inventory management, shopping cart, advertising portal.
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Industrial Trainee
MBA- PGDITM
IT Systems
All India Management Association
B Tech
o	1st position in Software Development at Fiesta Technica -2005, Chitkara, Rajpura.
o	Participation in Software Development at 8th National Convention of ISTE Student -2005, BBSBEC, Fatheghar Sahib.
o	2nd position in Debugging at Minerva -2005, RIEIT, Rayat.
o	Participation in Programming, Computer Quiz, Sell it at Minerva -2005, RIEIT, Rayat.
o	3rd position in Software Development at Semantica -2006, PEC, Chandighar.
o	1st position in Web Designing at Expressions -2006, Gnimt, Ludhina.
o	Participation in guest lecture by CISCO at Cognizance-2006, IIT, Rorkee.
o	1st position in Programming at Annual ISTE student convention -2006, BBSBEC, Fatheghar Sahib.
o	1st position in Web Designing at Annual ISTE student convention -2006, BBSBEC, Fatheghar Sahib.
o	2nd position in Programming at Minerva -2006, RIEIT, Rayat.
o	Participation in General Quiz, Debugging at Minerva -2006, RIEIT, Rayat.
Computer Science and Engineering
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Punjab Technical University
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BBPS
Splunk
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Splunk Core Certified Power User
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Splunk
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Splunk Core Certified User
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Splunk
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Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
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Splunk
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Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
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Splunk
Splunk Certified Architect
Splunk
Splunk Certified Admin
Splunk
Splunk Certified Power User
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
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ITIL V3 Foundation Certification in IT Service Management
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San Francisco Bay Area
Mantej Singh
Senior SDET at PlayStation
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San Francisco, CA
Rupali Saiya
co-founder @ fullfeel.io
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San Diego, CA
Vivek Vijayakumar
Engineering Manager at PlayStation
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Wildomar, CA
Seth Barrial, CISSP, GCIH, GCWN, GCUX
Senior Cloud Security Engineer at PlayStation
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulival
United States
Paulina Valdivieso
Application Security Engineer at PlayStation
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San Diego County, CA
Jennilyn "Jay" Magee
PMO Admin at Sony PlayStation
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San Jose, CA
Vamshi M.
Sr. Software Engineer
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San Diego, CA
Kevin C.
Site Reliability Engineering Manager at PlayStation™ Network - Sony Interactive Entertainment
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San Diego, CA
Swapnil Patkar
Site Reliability Engineer(SRE) at Sony Interactive Entertainment
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Roorkee
Rahul kumar
Student at Chandigarh Group Of Colleges
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United States
Kuknariev, Levi
Staff Software Engineer at PlayStation | AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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San Diego, CA
Christopher Walsh
Staff Software Engineer - SIE Playstation
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DuPage County, IL
Donny Jekels
Systems Engineer at Scalp Trade
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West Haven, CT
Joel Lovell
Nutanix Unified Storage Architect
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Greater Philadelphia
Mark Townsend
Solutions Architect - Commercial Accounts Northeast
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Gainesville, FL
Tom Warren
Senior System Engineer at CBRE
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Phoenix, AZ
Mike Janson
Consulting System Engineer at World Wide Technology
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Clarkston, MI
Tony Raleigh
Sr. Systems Engineer at Qumulo
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Duluth, GA
Amit Tarwade
DevOps/SRE Leader | Solutions Architect | Cloud Enthusiast
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After working with Sony for more than 15 awesome years, I thought it was time for a change. Will be starting my new adventure with ServiceNow.
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London Area, United Kingdom
Aakash Bhalla
Software Engineer at American Express
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Gurugram
Aakash B.
Project Associate at Tata Consultancy Services
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Jaipur
Aakash Bhalla
Associate Consultant at Celebal Technologies
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Pune
Aakash Bhalla
Product Team @ Logibricks | Startup Owner | E-commerce Dropshipper | Crypto Marketer
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Bank of America Associate & Alumni Network
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