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Ananth Bhaskararaman

Staff Engineer

Linux engineer, OSS developer, and a systems architect with expertise in networking, and container orchestration. Operating bare-metal and public cloud Kubernetes clusters with automation and small teams.

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Work Experience

January 2020 ⇾ Present

Lead Linux Appliance OS development and Fleet Orchestration for an Edge Network of Theatre Appliances across 55 countries.

Highlights

  • Migrated from in-house Linux Appliance Orchestration to CNCF backed open-source tools like Rancher & K3s.
  • Moved from building and deploying a custom Linux distribution in-house to working with Fedora Core OS as the OS for the Fleet.
  • Extensive tooling and automation upgrades throughtout greatly improving developer velocity and platform reliability.

Senior Software Engineer

Flatirons Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

July 2018 ⇾ December 2019

Full-stack developer working on Desktop, Web and Mobile applications deployed in Aviation Maintenance contexts.

Highlights

  • Worked on legacy C++, ASP.NET, Java 7 and JavaScript codebases with ease.
  • Optimised Android Mobile applications written in AngularJS and Cordova.
  • Automated developer environments. For example, brought the setup time of a Windows XP based offline environment from 4 hours to 10 minutes.

January 2017 ⇾ December 2017

Incubated by the IIT RTBI Incubation Cell & developed a veterinary care and patient management platform.

Highlights

  • Web based veterinary care platform written in Angular and Python.
  • Backend infrastructure deployed on Google Cloud GKE.
  • Cross-platform Mobile application based on React Native.

Software Engineer

Pickle Internet Pvt. Ltd.

July 2016 ⇾ December 2016

Incubated by the IIT RTBI Incubation Cell & developed a veterinary care and patient management platform.

Highlights

  • Web based veterinary care platform written in Angular and Python.
  • Backend infrastructure deployed on Google Cloud GKE.
  • Cross-platform Mobile application based on React Native.

Product Development Engineer

Influx Integrated Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

January 2016 ⇾ June 2016

Created embedded personalised exhibition experiences using Raspberry Pi-based kiosks and Arduino based human input devices.

Highlights

  • Built a custom-built side-by-side cycle racing kiosk to promote the launch f a new TI Cycles product.
  • Developed, proposed, and built an electronic 'Rewards for Trash' system to encouraging recycling along Marina Beach Chennai.

Web Developer

Consultant

January 2013 ⇾ December 2015

Freelance consultant web developer designing Wordpress websites, Wordpress themes, Python web applications, and static portfolio sites.

Highlights

  • Designed a new portfolio website and Careers application for Datalogics India, Pvt. Ltd.
  • Deployed a new e-commerce website for Aum Gifts Chennai, Pvt. Ltd.
  • Created a portfolio and showcase website for GBR Metals Pvt. Ltd.

Education

Skills

Linux: SRE, Distro Development, Kernel Module Development, eBPF, Systemd & Networking

Networking: IPv6, HTTP3, Wireguard, Firewalls, Container Networking & Flannel

Containerisation: OCI, Podman, Kubernetes, Docker, LXC/LXD, Firecracker VMM & gVisor

Programming Languages: Go, Python, C++, ECMAScript, Typescript, Java, Elm & BASH

Databases: PostgreSQL, SQlite, MySQL, Amazon Dynamodb, Redis, Memcache & Apache Cassandra

Devops: CI/CD, Git, GitHub Actions, Open Telemetry, Prometheus & Jenkins

Languages

English: Native speaker

Tamil: Native speaker

Interests

Programming Languages: Rust, Zig, Ruby, HTML, Haskell, Nix, CSS, SCSS, Dhall, Elm, BASH, Fish, Nu, OSH, Yaml, TOML, JSON & JSONSchema

Linux Distros: Arch Linux Tester, Fedora Core OS Tester & NixOS User

Embedded Development: Arduino, ESP32, AVR, Raspberry Pi Pico, Pigweed & MicroPython

OSS: Podman, Go, OCI, Asahi & Arch Linux AUR

Performaing Arts: Theater Actor, Singer & Guitarist

Projects