Career Profile

Aspiring to be in a role where I can contribute by coding/scripting/automating. 5+ years in Support Engineering Organization, 4+ years in working as a Civil Servant as a Civil Engineer, but applying my technology background. 2+ years of working in a Lab Environment installing and configuring Routers, Switches, and Servers.

Professional Experience

Senior Technical Support Engineer

2022 - Present
Splunk - San Francisco, CA

Technical Support Engineer for Splunk On-Prem User Behavior Analytics (UBA). This is a Customer-Facing role, in which Zoom meetings is a frequent occurence to troubleshoot complex issues involving Application and Platform issues. These issues can involve a number of services, including but not limited to, Zookeeper, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Postgres, and Kubernetes.

Frequently work with UBA Engineering team to focus on raising issues that are beyond the capacity of a Support Engineer.

Transportation Engineer (Civil)

2017 - 2022
California Department of Transportation, Oakland, CA

Designed and built proof of concept software to improve project management workflow using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL DB, and React. Collect, analyze and identify California State roads to find the quality of the pavement using ProVAL software.

Environments Operations Engineer

2017 - 2017
Workday - Pleasanton, CA

Monitor a hybrid cloud, maintained a 99.9% SLA of high-availability infrastructure. Monitor resource usage; such as CPU, RAM, database I/O, latency, and error rate. Deploy scripts and changes to staging/production instances such as environment variables, startup flags, etc. Collaborated with internal support analysts to report/resolve reported customer issues.

Support Engineer

2016 - 2017
Splunk - San Francisco, CA

Coordinated with product managers and follow-up with internal engineers for customer issues and concerns. Managed personal case queue using Salesforce and maintain accountability to meet and exceed SLA to provide the best customer service experience. Participated in training fellow TSE on latest SSL security protocols to ensure customers ingested data is securely encrypted. Contributed internal documentation regarding SSL security protocols.

Lab Administrator

2015 - 2016
Juniper Networks - Sunnyvale, CA

Install, configure, and provide end-user support for infrastructure troubleshooting, diagnosis and resolution on a variety of switches, routers, traffic generators (Ixia/Spirent), Unix/Linux systems with issues of but not limited to; down interfaces, cabling issues, PDU replacements, load balancing of AC/DC power, DNS issues, etc. Wrote scripts in Python/Bash/Expect to automate repetitive tasks.

Support Engineer

2014 - 2015
Zimbra - San Mateo, CA

Troubleshoot various network issues such as NGINX, SMTP, IMAP, DNS, LDAP, SAML, and SSO. Filed bugs with reproducible steps, and collaborated with product, and engineers to prioritize customer impact and troubleshooting details using Bugzilla.

Support Engineer

2012 - 2013
Innovative Interfaces Inc. - San Mateo, CA

Used SSH, telnet, RSH and modem connection to access internal servers and remote servers to troubleshoot issues involving sendmail, tcp/ip, runaway processes, swap issues, cpu averages. Participated in rotating shifts to cover 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shifts.

Projects

CaltransIPDB - Built using Ruby on Rails, and postgres backend. The goal was to have a centralized database for collected roadway information using a GUI interface to add/edit information.
OpenPortsIXIA - Built using Bash, utilizing Expect module. This script was created to check whether Traffic Generator (Ixia) ports are free and available to be used for testing by System Engineers.

Skills & Proficiency

Python

Javascript

HTML5 & CSS

Ruby on Rails

Sketch & Photoshop