Shashidhar B J

Shashidhar B J has an extensive work experience in the field of site reliability engineering and Unix administration. Shashidhar has held various roles in different companies, showcasing their expertise in managing and administering large-scale systems.

From 2017 to the present, Shashidhar has been working at Synchronoss Technologies as the Director of Site Reliability Engineering. Prior to this, they served as the Senior Manager of Site Reliability Engineering from 2020 to 2022, and as the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering from 2017 to 2020. In these roles, they led teams responsible for administering thousands of instances involving VM/Physical/AWS infrastructure and various servers like WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, and Apache. Shashidhar implemented procedures for PCI compliance, security patching, and OS hardening. Additionally, they have experience in implementing and managing various tools like Chef, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Terraform.

Before their time at Synchronoss Technologies, Shashidhar worked at StarHub as a Senior Unix Systems Engineer from 2014 to 2017. In this role, they were responsible for administering over a thousand virtual machines running Oracle Database, WebLogic, and Apache servers. Shashidhar also handled the administration of high availability Veritas Clusters and performed P2V X86 migrations.

Prior to StarHub, they had earlier stints at Synchronoss Technologies as a Lead Unix Administrator from 2010 to 2014 and at Capco IT Services India Pvt Ltd as a Senior Engineer in IT Support from 2006 to 2010. In these roles, they managed teams and administered virtual machines running various servers. Shashidhar also had responsibilities in project management, stakeholder management, and communication.

Shashidhar began their career at Sun Microsystems as a Member Technical Staff in 2006, where they focused on the installation, configuration, and administration of software products. Before that, they worked at Nous Infosystems as a Unix Administrator, primarily handling mail servers and various other systems.

Overall, Shashidhar B J has acquired valuable expertise in site reliability engineering, Unix administration, and project management throughout their career.

Shashidhar B J completed their Bachelor's in Computers from Kuvempu Vishwavidyanilaya from 1997 to 2002. Shashidhar has also obtained additional certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in March 2021 and AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate from AWS in March 2020.