About

Opesh Alkara is a highly experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Cisco with over 18 years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, orchestration, automation, operating systems management, performance monitoring, data storage, data security, and networking. He is proficient in various operating systems such as RHEL, CentOS, Amazon Linux, and Ubuntu, and programming languages including Python, Perl, Shell, and Core Java. He is also skilled in job schedulers such as Apache MESOS, OpenLava, IBM LSF, and data storage and backups such as Rsync, AWS S3, EBS, and Storage Gateway. Opesh has a strong background in network-attached storage such as NFS, Samba, CIFS, SMB, and Automounter/Autofs, and databases/caching such as MySQL, SQL Server, Redis, and DynamoDB. He is experienced in monitoring tools such as Datadog, Splunk, Zabbix, Nagios, and Ganglia, and web servers/containers such as Nginx, Apache HTTPD, and Apache Tomcat. He has extensive knowledge in cloud infrastructure such as EC2, ELB, EBS, S3, VPC, IAM, KMS, SQS/SNS, ECS Fargate, ECS EC2, and Terraform, and configuration management tools such as Puppet, Ansible, and Saltstack. Opesh is proficient in CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, and Maven, and Linux containers such as Docker and AWS ECS. He has expertise in email systems such as SendMail, Postfix, and ProofPoint, and network protocols such as DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Kerberos, NFS, SSH, SMTP, HTTP(S), REST, and RPC. He is skilled in tools and software such as OpenSSL, GNUPG, Make, M4, and Apache Zookeeper. Opesh's relevant experience includes working as a Senior Staff Engineer at Zenefits and an Engineering Manager at Arcesium, where he led a team of six senior engineers to provide cloud-based tech infrastructure solutions to the firm. He planned the yearly project roadmap with the right estimates, milestones, and deadlines for the infrastructure team, provided technical guidance to the team members to help them stay on schedule with their deliverables, designed and implemented the Linux email delivery infrastructure for performance and resilience, and built, managed, and upgraded the firm's critical software stack. Opesh holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and