Anand Karra

Experience

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  Indian School of Mines Alumni Association

  Dec 2016 - Feb 2017

  Frontend Web Developer Internship

  ISM Alumni Association is an organisation of all the graduates of Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.• Developed the front-end of the conference website (http://www.exocming.com) using HTML 5, CSS and Bootstrap.• Implemented UI elements inspired from the design principles of Material Design and it's color palette.

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  TEDxIITDhanbad

  Dec 2016 - Oct 2017

  Design Head

  • Designed the official TEDxIITDhanbad logo, posters, banners and artwork for the website.• Coordinated a team of designers.

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  Chegg Inc.

  Apr 2018 - Dec 2018

  Chegg Expert

  Tutor as part of the Chegg Expert program for Computer Science.

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  WorldQuant

  Jan 2019 - Sept 2019

  Research Consultant

  • Using Quantitative approach and developing Market-Neutral Trading Algorithms (alphas) to deploy systematic investment strategies• Developing quantitative strategies for efficiently trading equities in order to generate high arbitrage profits• Researching financial literature to seek out sources of alpha and aggregating these signals into robust models

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  IBM

  May 2019 - Jul 2019

  Software Developer Intern, Mobile Foundation on Cloud

  • Developed a Machine Learning framework to combine multiple Machine Learning/Deep Learning models from IBM Watson or generated be the user. A custom-developed meta-model (Mathematical & Machine Learning based model) combines the predictions of these models for complex classification tasks.• Developed a Cordova plugin to integrate this framework with IBM Digital App Builder to enable mobile application developers to build Machine Learning features into mobile applications.

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  IBM

  Jan 2020 - Nov 2024

  • E2E Test Suite : Led the design and development of an E2E test suite to unify storage service test pipelines.Integrated it with InfluxDB for storing results, Grafana dashboards for visualizations, and Slack notifications forbuild statuses. Developed utilities for seamless integration with existing pipelines, enabling proactive regression detection and monitoring build roll-outs.• Disaster Recovery : Part of a multi-terabyte disaster recovery effort for a banking client from an OpenShift Data Foundation cluster. Performed root cause analysis, extensive disaster recovery testing, and established a standard operating procedure.• Race Condition Vulnerability Fix : Debugged and resolved a race condition in two micro-services accessing an etcd database, which caused storage resources to become unresponsive. Implemented a locking mechanism for exclusive access, graceful rollback on downstream failures, and database reconciliation logic to clean up orphaned entries.• Ubuntu 24 Support : Enabled Ubuntu 24 OS support for virtual and bare-metal worker nodes on IBM Kubernetes Service (IKS). Updated and tested Ansible playbooks, Shell, and Python scripts to bootstrap, secure, and attach worker nodes to IKS clusters. Collaborated with squads for sign-offs, vulnerability scanning, and publishing build artifacts.• Observability : Implemented API audit events, Prometheus-based alerting of the Four Golden Signals, and Grafana dashboards to monitor and debug operational issues.• Mentored and on-boarded new team members, offering guidance and training on key functionalities and best practices. Show less • Storage API Micro-service : Developed a Go-based API micro-service for deploying and managing container storage on IBM Cloud Satellite. This service supports deploying CSI drivers from all major cloud providers using Mustache templates and GraphQL queries. Setup CI/CD automation for building and E2E testing with Travis and Jenkins, Swagger documentation, managed build roll-outs and change artifacts.• Concurrency & Auto-updates : Reduced latency by up to 50% with concurrency and location-based routing. Developed an auto-update mechanism for non-breaking storage configuration updates, improving security and reducing storage administrator workload.• Provided on-call support to promptly mitigate and resolve critical customer-impacting issues. Show less

  • Staff Software Engineer, Container Storage, IBM Kubernetes Service

    Aug 2021 - Nov 2024

  • Software Engineer, Container Storage, IBM Kubernetes Service

    Jul 2020 - Jul 2021

  • Software Developer Intern, Watson Machine Learning

    Jan 2020 - Jun 2020