Hiren Jayprakash Thakar

3B/102,Neighbourhood soc, Akurli Road, Kandivali (E) Mum-400101.

hiren2408@rediffmail.com

+91-7738371360

5+ years experience in Software field.

Currently working with rediff.com

Current Designation is Linux system Administrator Dev-ops, Maintenance also has exposure in
Public Cloud Azure & AWS, Private Cloud KVM .

previous Employer with Talentica software Limited.

Achievements:

Spot Award, under the Category Passionate and Responsive in 2012 and 2014.

Detailed Profile:

Knowledge and worked on Cloud Computing (Azure,AWS Amazon Web Services, Vmware,
KVM).

Knowledge of Build and Release activities, Continuous Integration tools (Hudson/Jenkins).

Working experience on Linux systems like Ubuntu, Centos.

Worked on Web servers like Nginx and Apache-Tomcat.

Hands on experience to setup and manage couchbase cluster.

Worked on Source Management tools like SVN and GIT.

Basic Knowledge on Shell Scripting.

Content Management tools like WordPress.

Knowledge on Monitoring tools like Nagios, Cacti & Ganglia.

Worked on Databases like MySQL, SQL.

Educational Qualification:

Degree and Date Institute University

B.E. (Electronics and Sri Ram Engineering college Anna University;
 Telecommunications) (2005 - Aggregate (8 Sems): 70%
2009)
HSC Mithibai college of science. MSBTE; 76.00%
SSC G.P.P High school Maharashtra Board (70.00%)

Project Details:

Employer Name : Rediff.com

Project Name: rediffmoney, Push Notification

Client Name: rediff

Duration: May2015 till date

Role/Contribution:

Only cloud engineer in the team of 5 linux admins. Setting up in house application on
different Public cloud platform based on requirement.

Setting up applications on AWS.

Maintain & monitor cloud infra to assure maximum uptime of servers.

Active participation in maintaining inhouse infrastructure in Private KVM and VMware

cloud.

Setting up and manage persistent data couchbase servers for some of the crucial
applications like rediffmoney, rediffshopping, rediffbooks etc.

Environment :

AWS

KVM

Ganglia & nagios for monitoring

Couchbase

Employer Name : Talentica Software

Project Name: OPX, OSS, OVP

 Client Name: Opera Mini

Duration: September2014 May2015

Role/Contribution:

Only infra guy in project responsible to scale & maintain 80+ servers and decision
making in case of issues.

Advance automation tools usage in order to make infra more robust & ease.

Automation tasks been done via basic shell scripting.

Autoscaling of production servers and configure via AWS CLI.

Monitoring servers via monitoring tools like Nagios & Cacti.

Environment:

AWS(EC2,S3,VPC,IAM)

Apache-Tomcat

Nagios,cacti

Employer Name : Talentica Software

Project Name : Brave New Web, Developer World, Blogs

Client: Sony Mobile Communications

Duration: December 2011 August 2014

Role/Contribution:

Environment setup as per the requirement on AWS using various Amazon resources
like, EC2, S3, RDS etc.

Deployments of various applications on the environments.

Configuring Auto scaling for Production environments.

Monitoring various server performance parameters.

Performing Software Stack upgrades and OS version upgrades by creating new

amis.
 Maintaining Release process and continuously providing improvement suggestions
to client and implement them.

Environment:

Amazon Cloud using AWS

Wordpress, Nginx and MySQL.

GIT Version control Tool

Hudson/Jenkins Build Management Tool

Personal Details:

Nationality Indian

Date of Birth 24th August, 1987

Marital Status Married

Passport Number H799370E

Languages Spoken Gujarati, Marathi, English and Hindi.