Swarit Arora

Experience

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  Jio

  Sept 2012 - Oct 2014

  Software Developer

  Designing the database structure for Cassandra so as to optimize the queries and reducing the number of transactions required per request and its implementation in Hector (a java based Cassandra client).Also responsible for installation and management of Cassandra servers,their performance monitoring as well as tuning for different scenarios.

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  Infosys

  Nov 2014 - Dec 2015

  Senior Associate Consultant

  Working as a Cassandra Administrator and Consultant.Responsibilities :Creating and managing Cassandra clusters in Dev, Stage and Prod environment.Adding nodes and data center to the already running clusters.Upgrading the cluster to newer version.Adding features like automatic backup, ssl security to the clusters.Writing scripts and cron job to automate tasks like backing up data.Helping Application teams in developing the data model and optimizing queries.

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  Sony India Software Centre

  Dec 2015 - Sept 2019

  • Responsible for the availability, performance, scaling, monitoring and incident response of the Sony Playstation NoSql Platform and Micro services.• Responsible for working on issues impacting SLIs• Creating and managing large Cassandra clusters in Dev, Stage and Prod environment.• Creating and managing Aerospike clusters in Dev, Stage and Prod environment.• Administering, monitoring and troubleshooting issues in Cassandra as well as Aerospike clusters.• Figure out and automate toils in the system to reduce human errors and intervention.• Implementation of monitoring and alerting on systems to meet SLOs.• Involved in the process of designing Cassandra Architecture.• Planned and implemented Hybrid model for Cassandra and Aerospike from the existing on premise model.• Decommissioned the on-prem DCs to move 100% to AWS.• Upgrading Cassandra and aerospike clusters to new version for both on premise and cloud clusters.• Worked on AWS automation framework for cluster creation and its failure recovery on cloud for both Cassandra and Aerospike• Proficient in using AWS services such as EC2, S3, AMI, EBS, ENI, Auto Scaling, VPC, Route 53, ELB, Cloudwatch• Performed stress and performance testing, benchmark for the cluster.• Implemented intra node SSL encryption for Cassandra cluster. Show less

  • Technical Lead

    Apr 2018 - Sept 2019

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Dec 2015 - Apr 2018
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  Autodesk

  Dec 2019 - Nov 2021

  Working as an SME for Cassandra and DevOps EngineerCassandra | Terraform | Chef | AWS Manage, maintain and monitor the NoSql Cassandra cluster, ensuring obligations to SLAs Responsible for the availability, performance and incident response for Cassandra Cluster. Scaling the database cluster as per application requirements. Administering, monitoring and troubleshooting database issues Responsible for working on issues impacting SLIs Automating backups and restore to achieve low RPO, RTO. Writing and changing chef cookbooks for configuration changes Writing and changing terraform modules for infrastructure changes Implementation of monitoring and alerting on systems to meet SLOs Show less

  • Senior Database Engineer

    Jun 2021 - Nov 2021

  • Database Engineer

    Dec 2019 - Jun 2021
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  Grab

  Nov 2021 - now

  Senior Database Engineer