Hi! I am Anirudh. Owing to my mid-20s life crisis, I cannot seem to like only one of the many areas that make up the computer systems world. In general, I am passionate about building software at all layers of the software stack, so I love being a systems engineer working on infrastructure solutions (that host our applications)! Just recently you could catch me developing software solutions for network operators that allow them to describe their intent when making changes in the network. This intent is through code – such as Python code, YAML/JSON constructs, or Ansible playbooks. I have dedicated to doing this well since 2020 as a network automation engineer at Baxter.
Skills
I am skilled in many disparate areas, some of which are:
- Network automation: I have built an enterprise scale network automation platform at Baxter to automate all network operations, such as:
- network configuration changes (switching, routing, firewall, wireless features on Cisco and Fortinet hardware)
- automated monitoring and alerting setups using Prometheus, Thanos, Alertmanager, and AWS Lambdas to run custom webhooks for automated actions, such as raising tickets on ITSM platforms
- network data management: built application features on NetBox on Nautobot to allow engineers to document existing and new network information and enforce design standards on such data (ex: VLAN numbering, device hostnames, cable connections on core switches and routers, etc.)
- AWS cloud solutions: EC2 (Autoscaling groups, VPC), ECS (Container orchestration), Lambda, S3, ECR, Systems Manager. Have built enterprise scale microservices and Lambdas, and managed AWS resources using CloudFormation templates.
- Linux: Managing and administrating Linux virtual machines and bare metal servers. Experienced with package management (
apt,yum,rpm), system observability (monitoring memory, CPU, disks, filesystems), network management (routing, interface management, DNS), and everything to do with general GNU Linux management. - DevOps and automation: Docker, Jenkins, Git webhooks (on GitHub, Bitbucket), bash, cmake, pyinvoke
- Certifications: AWS Cloud Practitioner and Cisco Certified Network Administrator and DevNet certified
Status quo
Currently I am pursuing an MS in Computer Science degree at the Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah. I shall post about my solo and group projects that I pursue as part of my journey towards becoming a “10x” systems engineer.
More Information
Outside of what I do, what I aspire to do, and everything professional, I love listening to electronic, indie, and hip-hop music, love going on hikes/treks/runs, and enjoy anything philosophical (existentialist, absurdist, epistemological and the like especially!)