Aizaz Makandar

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  • About me

    Staff Systems Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech India for Enterprise Compute

  • Education

    • Army Public School, Kanpur

      1996 - 1997
    • Visvesvaraya Technological University

      2007 - 2011
      Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electronics and Communications engineering
    • BASAVESHWAR VEERSHAIVA VIDYAVARDHAK SANGHAS BASAVESHWAR ARTS SCIENCE AND COMMERCER COLLEGE, BAGALKOT

      2006 - 2007
      Pre-University Course Physics,Chemistry,Maths and Biology
    • Kendriya Vidyalaya

      1997 - 2005
      Xth , CBSE Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician
  • Experience

    • Tata Consultancy Services

      Aug 2011 - Feb 2018

      Working as Infrastructure Automation SME for Apple client - Internet Service Organization(ISO) group.Few of my key accomplishments in this role included below automations and Process Improvements : - Python (with Apple script) for DC template Automation in Espresso Application - Python Health-check script for Cassandra Application Servers - Using API to access Verdad (Database Management Tool) and nmSys (Monitoring tool). - Auto alert automation for efficient alert handling - Availability-check, Mount issue, Disk utilisation, Puppet-segregator , Automated mail to End Users, etc. - Central Station (Service Now) API automation - Bulk DC ticket creation, Checking alerts that turned green, Burn-Test status update, to fetch incident(s) details, to find all INCs , INC Tasks, SR and SR Tasks open for host(s) - Used MongoDB schema for storing and retrieving security tokens. Used sqllite for creating logger. - Using GitHub for code versioning and confluence for documentation and project progress tracking Show less As System Administrator/Site Reliability Engineer for Apple client - Internet Service Organization(ISO) group - Management and Monitoring of more than 100k + linux servers in production and QA servers for various different verticals for Apple Inc. - Using Python for server end automation. - Using third party tools like smartctl , MegaCli, mdadm , hpacucli , hpasmcli to diagnose Disk issues , managing Hardware LSI RAIDs and Software RAIDs and checking integrated management logs. - Configuring servers from scratch using Kickstart/PXE Boot, and Puppet & Verdad for pushing configuration as per Apps team request. Maintaining the health of the server round the clock efficiently. - Using Ad-hoc utilities like iostat, netstat , top , sar ,free to collect information system activity and generate reports to observe Disk, CPU, Swap and network subsystems - Troubleshooting the issues pertaining to OS and system related issues that include CPU & Memory Usage, inode Usage, Volume Usage, NFS mount issues, Network latency, NTP Lagged Time, and Disk Usage. Show less As System Administrator/Site Reliability Engineer for Apple client - Internet Service Organization(ISO) group - Operate and troubleshooting issues in running systems, including booting into different run levels, identifying processes, and controlling services, DNS and DHCP issue, LDAP, SSH, HTTP,Package management, Puppet issues, Network issues, Drive/disk issues. - Maintaining storage using RAID(software and hardware) and LVM(logical volume manager) - Creating VIP's for various environments on request basis. - Working knowledge of Verdad and Puppet. - Performing initial investigation and resolution on third party provided storage systems such as Isilon, TMS,Filers and coordinating with the vendors for advanced support or replacements. - Monitoring the flow of data packets through the network. Tracing the errors / issues in the network path. Troubleshooting on Ethernet packet drops. - Patching and Kernel Upgrades for Labs and Prod Servers - Raise case with fusion-io team and implement the solution provided by them on Database hosts. Show less

      • IT Analyst

        Aug 2015 - Feb 2018
      • System Engineer

        Aug 2013 - Jul 2015
      • Assistant System Engineer

        Aug 2012 - Jul 2013
      • Assistant System Engineer - Trainee

        Aug 2011 - Jul 2012
    • Walmart Global Tech India

      Mar 2018 - now
      • Staff Software Engineer

        May 2024 - now
      • Senior Software Engineer

        Dec 2020 - May 2024
      • Software Engineer

        Mar 2018 - Dec 2020
  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Aizaz Makandar
      Excellence Award walmart May 2024
    • Awarded to Aizaz Makandar
      Excellence Award Walmart Jan 2023 For excellence in Automation and development initiatives.
    • Awarded to Aizaz Makandar
      Bravo Award Walmart Nov 2021
    • Awarded to Aizaz Makandar
      Bravo Award Walmartlabs July 1, 2020
    • Awarded to Aizaz Makandar
      Eklavya Award TCS - Apple ISO December 1, 2017 For excelling as Automation SME and completing few of the key automations for Apple ISO Infra team.
    • Awarded to Aizaz Makandar
      Best Idea Generator 2016 TCS - Apple ISO December 1, 2016 For my work on automating template for Breakfix Incidents using Python