Dijeesh Padinharethil
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Professional Summary
A dynamic, self-motivated Information Technology professional with over 12+ years of hands-on experience in building and managing highly available, secure, redundant, scalable systems and solutions from scratch. A passionate learner and solution architect with excellent problem-solving ability. I possess an exceptional work ethic, a straightforward attitude, and strong interpersonal and networking skills.
Professional Experience
March 2022 - Present Sedai.io ( Kochi, India )
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Mar 2022 - Present Director of Engineering
March 2012 - March 2022 Network Redux India Private Limited ( Kochi, India )
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Jan 2019 - Mar 2022 Associate Director, Cloud Services
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018 Lead Operations Engineer
Apr 2015 - Dec 2016 Senior Operations Engineer
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015 Senior System Architect
Apr 2013 - Mar 2014 System Architect
Mar 2012 - Mar 2013 Junior System Architect
Network Redux LLC is a Managed Cloud Services Provider based in Portland, US. Network Redux develops, deploys, and manages Web Hosting environments for Internet projects both large and small scale. Currently working at Network Redux’s Remote Technical Assistance Center in Kochi as an Associate Director of Cloud Services.
Job Responsibilities
January 2011 - March 2012 Mobile Strategic Technology ( Kochi, India )
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Jan 2011 - Mar 2012 System Administrator, Production Support Team Lead
Mobile Strategic technology ( Mobile Sports-book technology, earlier) was an offshore development center of IMSC S.L engaged in SMS-based sports betting applications (betty123). Joined the MST team and built the IT Infrastructure from scratch. Taken over Betty123 Production environments and led the Production support team.
Job Responsibilities
- Installations, configurations, management, and monitoring of IMSC Production Web, Database (MySQL, Oracle), and Reporting Servers.
- Managing Betty123 Production deployments, fine-tuning, and troubleshooting production environments.
- Design, implement and manage Private Cloud Environment using VMware vSphere.
- Provisioning and management of VMware Virtual Machines
- Implement monitoring and alerting solutions using Nagios and vCenter.
- Implement and manage backups for IMSC Production Servers.
- Implement and manage Betty123 Country-specific Corporate Website hosting environments.
- Plan and implement BCP/DR Procedures for IMSC Production Environment.
- Automating daily management tasks using shell scripts.
- Managing MST In-house Infrastructure ( built from scratch - Network Designing and implementation, OpenVZ and VMware-based virtualization environments, SVN Servers, NIS, NFS Servers, Linux-based router and firewall systems, Jira, Confluence, and Database Servers, etc. ).
- Managing Jira, Confluence, and SVN servers.
- Managing 3 member Production Support Team.
September 2008 - January 2011 Poornam Info Vision Pvt Ltd ( Kochi, India )
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Nov 2010 - Dec 2011 Team Lead, Internal System Administrators
Apr 2010 - Oct 2010 Deputy Admin, Internal System Administrators
Sep 2008 - Mar 2010 Internal System Administrator
Poornam Info Vision Private Limited is an outsourcing company that provides technical support, software development, and design services under the brand name Bobcares
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Job Responsibilities
- Installation, configuration, management, and monitoring of Bobcares’ In-house Servers (NIS, NFS, OpenAFS, LDAP, Apache, Nginx, OpenVZ, Vyatta, SVN, Chat Servers, SSH Bastion Servers, and MySQL Servers)
- Implementing High-Availability and failover for critical In-house Servers
- Planning, Implementing, and testing BCP/DR Procedures for Bobcares’ In-house Servers
- Implementing MySQL master-slave replications for In-house Servers
- Ensure smooth functioning of 6 members Internal System Administrators team
- Ensure 100% uptime for In-house Servers ( Kochi, Germany, and US Offices)
- Ensure 100% uptime for internet connectivity by setting up and managing Linux-based routing systems. ( Vyatta, Linux Routers with Shorewall firewall)
- Installation, configuration, and management of 250+ Linux workstations.
- Managing VPN Connections between Kochi, Germany, and US offices
- Configuring and Managing backups for Poornam In-house Servers.
- Assisting in-house security and quality assurance teams for various infrastructure audits and report generations.
- Generating and presenting timely infrastructure reports to the management team
- Training and mentoring Junior Team members
Technical Certifications
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKA - Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- Amazon Certified Solution Architect Associate - Amazon Web Services
- Junos, Associate (JNCIA-Junos) - Juniper Networks
- Security, Specialist (JNCIS-SEC) - Juniper Networks
- VMWare Certified Professional (VCP) - VMWare
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) - Red Hat
Currently working on pursuing following certifications
- Amazon Certified Solution Architect Professional - Amazon Web Services
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist CKS - Cloud Native Computing Foundation