Abhishek Rai

Fortinet Inc. Aug. 2024 — Present

Highlights

• Staff Site Reliability Engineer for Developer Infrastructure
• Technologies: Golang, Redhat OpenShift

Lacework Inc. Oct. 2020 — Aug. 2024

Highlights

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Developer Infrastructure
• Implemented custom monitoring solutions for better reliability of Lacework’s CI Infrastructure
• Managed infrastructure components for Lacework’s bazel build system
• Implemented Backstage as a centralized information center for Lacework Platform services
• Automated multi-architecture (AMD64/ARM64/Alpine) builds for Lacework Agent
• Re-architected components of Lacework platform to run on ARM64 for cost optimization
• Implemented continous deployment of Lacework platform to Kubernetes cluster with ArgoCD
• Managed transition of Lacework’s continous integration system from codefresh to Github Actions
• Technologies: Golang, ArgoCD, GH Actions, Kubernetes

Pindrop Inc. Jul. 2016 — Oct. 2020

Highlights

• Software Engineer in System Software (core infrastructure) team for Pindrop Protect
• Created new High Availability solution for Protect (Flagship Product)
• Implemented Raft leader election and consensus algorithm as part of the HA solution
• Designed and developed a new telemetry and alerting framework for the product
• Created a new REST based configuration system for the product
• Technologies: C, Python, Red hat linux

Dealsafe Inc. Feb. 2016 — May. 2016

Highlights

• Created a system for Searching and Indexing Documents scanned by OCR
• Created Backend API to serve Mobile and Front­end web app
• Technologies: Python-Flask, ElasticSearch,Ruby on Rails, MySQL

New York University Sep. 2015 — Dec. 2015

Highlights

• Department of Faculty Innovation Teaching and Learning
• Designed Undergraduate Student on-boarding application - PreReg.
• Integrated Single Sign-on Service to the application by accessing the NYU Shibboleth System
• Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Apache, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript

Autodesk Inc. Jun. 2015 — Aug. 2015

Highlights

• Designed a web based in-house Analytics tool to analyze data aggregated from various different analytics platforms (eg. MixPanel, Google Analytics etc.) from different products of ACG
• Implementation and integration of analytics in 123D.circuits.io based on Ruby on Rails
• Detailed analysis of data received from the implemented events and properties in 123D.circuits.io
• Improvements to the 123D.circuits.io analytics based on insights derived from the initial implementation
• Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Sinatra-Ruby, DCJS, Segment Ruby and JavaScript API, Redshift

Books That Grow Jan. 2015 — May. 2015

Highlights

• User Acquisition, Activation and Retention using Growth Hacking techniques
• Developed a system for searching books with autocomplete using Elasticsearch
• Integrated various OAuth services (eg. Facebook, G+) for a better Signup and Login experience
• Technologies: Ruby on Rails, ElasticSearch,Postgresql, AngularJS, Google Analytics

Cognizant India Aug. 2013 — May. 2014

Vim Git Blame (git-blame.vim)

Highlights

• Quickly glance at Git blame information per line
• Shows git blame in a non-intrusive ephemeral window

Dorker

Highlights

• Bundles in most commonly used infrastructure tooling
• Used for building and debugging infrastructure components
• Can be run as standalone container or in a kubernetes environment

Meta Search Nov. 2015 — Dec. 2015

Highlights

• Extracts search results from Sites like Github Gists, StackOverflow etc.
• Ranks the results extracted from the website using custom ranking function
• Returns the top 10 Ranked Results with relevant snippets

Web Search Engine Sep. 2015 — Nov. 2015

Highlights

• A web crawler for crawling and parsing data from the web
• An inverted index to structure the crawled data based on keywords
• A query processing engine to get result from the indexed data

New York University Aug. 2014 — May. 2016

Courses

• CS6033 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• CS6913 - Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines
• CS6613 - Artificial Intelligence
• CS6823 - Network Security

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra Aug. 2009 — May. 2013

Courses

• Formal Languages and Automata Theory
• Database Management Systems
• Object Oriented Programming and Java
• Data Mining and Warehousing

• C
• Python
• Golang

• Linux
• Kubernetes
• CICD