About

Chitrarasu Baskaran is a highly versatile hands-on technology leader with around 12 years of experience in Product Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and Automation. He is currently working as a System Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he collaborates with business and IT stakeholders to propose solutions that ensure high availability of applications aligned with business objectives. Chitrarasu is a Mastering Design Thinking graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Certified Kubernetes Administrator. He has managed and mentored talents in the organization for both FTE and Contractors, including recruitment, performance management, rewards, and recognition. Chitrarasu's specialties include DevOps/Middleware Technologies such as Docker/Kubernetes, Kafka, Elastic Search, Chef, Jenkins, AWS, web and proxy servers, Weblogic, Jboss, Websphere, Vertx, Tomcat, performance tuning, core file analysis, Java thread dump analysis, JVM, and GC tuning. Additionally, he has experience in programming/scripting languages like C, Basics of Java, shell script, Perl, Python, RESOLVE, JS, and SQL. Chitrarasu also has experience in security technologies like WAF, device fingerprinting, and DDOS mitigation, as well as networking technologies like Big IP F5, Wireshark, tcpdump, and firewall. He is proficient in Java tools like jstack, jmap, and Eclipse MAT, and monitoring tools like Hp OVO, Splunk, Wily Introscope, Opnet, Thousand Eyes, Sumologic, Prometheus, and Graphana. Chitrarasu has previously worked as a System Development Manager at the OpenSearch Project and as a Senior Manager at Visa. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Anna University and has completed an Executive Program in Mastering Design Thinking from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Overall, Chitrarasu has 11.78 years of relevant experience and is a highly skilled technology leader with expertise in DevOps, middleware technologies, programming/scripting languages, security, networking, Java tools, and monitoring tools.