About

Gowtham Sadasivam is a highly skilled Staff Engineer with over nine years of experience in the administration of remote bare-metal and cloud Linux server infrastructures. He is well-versed in developing internal system tools using Go/Golang, automation scripts using Python/Bash, and administering development, staging, and testing environments. Gowtham is an expert in deploying and monitoring the entire production infrastructure at scale. Gowtham has experience with various IaaS platforms such as IBM SoftLayer, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Services. He is also proficient in Hadoop, Kafka, Spark (PySpark), ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, Jenkins, Apache AirFlow, ETCD, Docker, Bare-Metal Kubernetes (RBAC + Calico/WeaveNet/Flannel + NginX Ingress) with GlusterFS for Stateful services. As a technology enthusiast, he always stays up-to-date with the latest and cutting-edge technologies. His knowledge and interest in information security give him an edge when dealing with operating system patch management and other security fixes. Gowtham is skilled in developing tools using Go and Bash/Python Scripts, Linux Server Configuration Management/Administration, Server Performance Tuning, Virtualization, Linux Containers (LXC), Server Security Hardening, Build and deploy services, Visualized dashboards, and Architect micro-services. Currently, Gowtham is working as a Staff Engineer at Acceldata, where he takes part in various product feature discussions and takes ownership. He develops command-line applications using Golang on top of Docker/Kubernetes APIs to deploy the production containers. He also develops various command-line tools using Golang for data pipelines and network monitoring. Gowtham takes ownership of the developer infrastructures and monitors the server resources. He helps and guides developers/SREs debug and troubleshoot various services on remote Linux servers effectively. In the past, Gowtham has worked as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Near, where he built and released software artifacts to various repository servers. He also defined and managed various continuous integration/deployment pipelines for staging/production environments. Gowtham automated deployment of various packages/services using configuration management tools and deployed various Proof-of-Concept stack set-ups. He also integrated various big data technologies/tools to build seamless data transformation pipelines. Gowtham holds a B.Tech degree in Information Technology from Nandha College of Technology. He also has experience in computer science and languages,