Ashish Lal

Ashish Lal is the current Director of Engineering at WeeCare. Ashish has held this position for 4 years and 6 months. Prior to WeeCare, Ashish Lal was at Tradesy for 2 years and 9 months where they started as a DevOps Engineer Intern and eventually became a Jr. DevOps Engineer. Ashish Lal has also worked as a Systems Administrator - MIS at The Daily Bruin (UCLA) for 1 year and 2 months. There, they were responsible for managing production Linux environments that host websites and services that serve over 70k visitors per month with Linux containers and OpenVZ. Additionally, they managed an internal Mac OS X environment that consisted of a combination of 80 servers and desktops. Ashish Lal has also interned at Blizzard Entertainment as a Systems Administrator Intern. There, they worked in a team that administered thousands of Linux and Windows servers across the globe. Ashish helped troubleshoot issues with production game services that mostly ran on Linux. Ashish Lal has gained a lot of experience in configuration management with Puppet and utilizing LDAP as a central point to manage users, access control, server configurations, alerting, etc. Ashish has also kickstarted and preseeded Linux Servers (CentOS and Ubuntu Server). Furthermore, they are familiar with task and ticket management tools (Jira and Inspector). Ashish Lal frequently utilizes Linux tools: grep, ps -ef, netstat, rsync, scp, cron, tmux, vim, less, and git. Ashish gained valuable experience in an operations center environment that deals with systems and backup administration, network operations, and business process analysis. Ashish Lal created various scripts in Python and Bash that assisted in reading and parsing through backup reports and logs, automated temporary backups of servers and services, automated verification and cleanup of entries in LDAP, and automated creation of kickstart files.

Ashish Lal attended the University of California, Los Angeles from 2011 to 2015, where they earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. While at UCLA, Ashish was involved with Project RISHI, IEEE, and took courses in Introduction to C++, Data structures, object-oriented software development, and algorithm analysis, among others. Prior to attending UCLA, Ashish Lal earned an Honors Diploma and IB Diploma from San Clemente High School in 2011. While in high school, Ashish took a ROP Programming Tools course with emphasis on MySQL and PHP, and was also the webmaster of C.A.R.E.