Profile

Suresh Raju

Scalable infrastructure & site reliability

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Summary

Twenty-five years of experience in scalable cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, product development, technology management and customer success across America, Europe and Asia.

I build and stabilise data pipelines and platform infrastructure that drive customer adoption. I've mentored and led engineering teams to deliver on problems of performance, scale, reliability and data management — from early-stage startups to global enterprise platforms.

Experience
Nov 2023 – present Cloudera

Site Reliability Engineering

  • Building scalable, performant infrastructure on Kubernetes supporting the Cloudera data platform across hybrid and public cloud.
Apr 2021 – Jun 2023 Mux, San Francisco

Platform & Infrastructure

  • Built and scaled the core platform underpinning the video and video analytics products.
  • Scaled platform analytics to support some of the largest live streaming sporting events.
Jun 2020 – Apr 2021 Optimizely, San Francisco

Site Reliability Engineering

  • Owned performance, reliability, CDN, DNS, data infrastructure and automation.
Jun 2019 – Feb 2020 Reltio, Redwood Shores

Senior Manager, Platform & Infrastructure

  • Built and managed large-scale infrastructure for a cloud-native MDM SaaS platform on AWS and GCP.
  • Responsible for automation, scale, performance and observability of the cloud infrastructure and software stack — Cassandra and Elasticsearch.
  • Led a distributed team of infrastructure engineers. Implemented SRE principles for 24×7 support operations.
Dec 2015 – May 2019 Oracle, Redwood Shores

Senior Manager, Oracle Management Cloud

  • Built the DevOps/SRE function for a monitoring and analytics platform deployed globally. Owned observability for CDN, EUM, APM, logs, security and monitoring.
  • Built scalable and performant infrastructure for accelerated promotion of services to production.
  • Full ownership of deployment, process automation and observability across the entire stack including Hadoop and Kafka clusters.
Nov 2005 – Nov 2015 Oracle / Sun — Bay Area, Prague, Bangalore

Technology Management, Open Source & Engagements

  • Led and executed data centre management projects across complex enterprise environments.
  • Defined and managed crisis engagements that resulted in millions of dollars in retained revenue.
  • Official committer for Eclipse on Solaris x86 (Sun Microsystems).
  • Represented Sun at conferences and universities on data centre management.
Jun 1999 – Oct 2005 Tata Infotech, Bangalore / Chicago

Lead Systems Engineer

  • Defined, managed and executed statements of work for Ascom, Qualcomm and World Book.
  • Liaised between on-site teams and offshore technology development.
Skills

Infrastructure

KubernetesDockerEnvoyKarpenterLinuxSolaris

Cloud

AWSGCPOCI

Platform

VaultTerraformArgoCDIstioHelm

Data & Streaming

KafkaFlinkZookeeperRedisSolrELK

Edge & Networking

AkamaiCloudflareSecurityNetworking

Languages

JavaGoPythonPerlShell
Education

Master of Computer Science & Applications

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore