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abhiyerra

हाथ बज्र औ ध्वजा बिराजै
A thunderbolt in one hand and the flag of dharma in the other.

-Hanuman Chalisa

A founder and CEO of a DevOps consulting firm, a student of Vedanta, and a lifelong learner. I have a deep interest in the intersection of technology and spirituality, and I am passionate about building technology that helps uplift humanity.

Ventures​

opsZero​

April 2016 – Present — CEO / Founder

  • Started a DevOps consulting firm that has setup and migrated Kubernetes infrastructure for startups.
  • Focused primarily in the healthcare, finance and enterprise space with high compliance requirements.
  • Companies we have worked with include PicnicHealth, Lattice, Posthaven, Emburse, Akido Labs, Bridg, Envkey, Floydhub, HumanInterest, TractionGuest, Riviera Partners, and Counterpart.
  • Implemented sales strategy and processes to grow company repeatably.
  • Setup Quarterly OKRs and Weekly Sprints to attain KPIs.
  • Manage team which includes sales, coding, finance and administration.
  • Completely bootstrapped and has been remote first from the beginning.
  • Spent 2020 building internal software to create repeatable processes to scale company execution.
  • Executing on productizing this software to help other Operations and Development agencies scale.
  • Executing on a Serverless Code offering focused on building code for AWS Lambda using Crowdsourcing.

Startup Sonoma County​

April 2018 – June 2020 — Director / Co-Founder

  • Started Co-working space in Santa Rosa, CA with two co-founders.
  • Handled Government Regulations to ensure space was compliance with law.
  • Handled Operations, Sales, Legal and Finance.
  • Shutdown due to Covid-19 and a physical disaster at the space.

Work​

VSCO​

April 2015 – March 2016 — Software Engineer (DevOps)

  • Worked on the DevOps team helping to standardize deployments and infrastructure.
  • Used Hashicorp tools to standardize the infrastructure.
  • Used Packer to build AWS AMIs used in production.
  • Used Consul to create a Feature Flagging system called Decider.
  • Used Terraform to generate Infrastructure.
  • Standardized on Vagrant for local development.
  • Severely reduced the need for Chef by moving lot of packaging to Docker.
  • Made Docker the standard packaging mechanism making it easier for DevOps to handle deployment.
  • Created Custom Scripts in Go called Tacoma which standardized deployments and access to systems for all engineers.
  • Standardized deployment of Machine Learning models via Caffe.
  • Implemented Linux server optimizations to handle high traffic while reducing costs.
  • Scaled MongoDB to handle high traffic.

Lookout​

February 2012 – April 2015 — Senior Software Engineer

  • Built tooling around Vagrant to help speed up local development.
  • Worked in Chef to bootstrap staging environments for a new Enterprise product.
  • Built tooling around Storm to improve visibility into operational issues.
  • Contributed to code reviews and agile issue triage.
  • Worked on the billing team incorporating carrier payments into a Rails backend.
  • Helped structure the codebase to support multiple payment backends generating tens of millions in revenue.
  • Helped separate a monolithic Rails application into a dedicated billing service.
  • Acted as a liaison between engineering groups including Operations and Core Infrastructure.
  • Collaborated with carrier developers on integrations.
  • Contributed to multiple hackathons resulting in patent filings.
  • Helped grow the team from three members to ten members.
  • Recruited and mentored interns.

SpeakerText/Humanoid​

June 2011 – January 2012 — Software Engineer

  • Hired as engineer #2 to work on the Rails backend for a crowdsourcing application.
  • Introduced engineering processes around Git branching and issue tracking.
  • Created the REST API used by customers to submit crowdsourcing tasks.
  • Helped implement a workflow engine for arbitrary crowdsourcing tasks.
  • Built worker metrics infrastructure using MongoDB and Redis.
  • Mentored four summer interns.
  • Built administrative interfaces for workers, customers, and tasks.
  • Helped create worker feedback and happiness processes.

CloudCrowd​

October 2010 – May 2011 — Software Engineer

  • Developed finite-state-machine and workflow systems for a crowdsourcing platform.
  • Worked on Ruby on Rails and Sinatra applications using DataMapper.
  • Wrote automated tests using RSpec and Cucumber.
  • Focused primarily on the Serv.io product line.
  • Worked within a small agile team shipping weekly releases.

Plutoz.com​

March 2010 – July 2010 — Lead Developer / Consultant

  • Developed an ecommerce search and recommendation engine.
  • Configured a 20-node Nutch/Hadoop cluster using Puppet.
  • Built a Ruby on Rails application for managing crawl infrastructure.
  • Created a distributed crawler using Cassandra and Redis.
  • Built Hadoop jobs to populate a sharded Solr cluster.
  • Extended Solr query scoring with custom parsing.
  • Migrated legacy PHP applications to Rails running on JRuby and Java.
  • Deployed applications using Tomcat and nginx.
  • Led developers across the U.S., India, and Vietnam.

i5labs​

December 2007 – November 2009 — Web Developer / Consultant

  • Solved Internet Explorer CSS and JavaScript compatibility issues.
  • Contributed components to the Radiant CMS ecosystem.
  • Modified ZXing-based iPhone applications for QR code ticket scanning.
  • Built recruiter-performance analytics software for Riviera Partners.
  • Reverse engineered Maxhire CRM integrations.

WordNetworks​

July 2007 – August 2007 — Intern

  • Prototyped textual analysis software using Erlang and Mnesia.
  • Created Amazon EC2 operating system images.

Berkeley Law​

October 2006 – October 2007 — Student Web Application Developer

  • Developed web applications for event coordination and student examinations.
  • Refactored and extended legacy codebases.

University of California Press​

October 2005 – November 2006 — Tech Assistant

  • Built an intranet by heavily customizing ExpressionEngine.
  • Developed Python automation tools for Information Systems and Helpdesk teams.

Volunteer​

Open Source​

  • Personal projects, scripts, and open source contributions.

Patents​

  • US 20140128047 A1 — System and method for call blocking and SMS blocking
  • US 20140349625 A1 — System and method for mobile communications blocking based on crowd sourced information

Education​

University of California, Berkeley​

History, B.A. August 2005–May 2010

Languages​

  • English (Native)
  • Telugu (Native)

Interests​

Reading​

Travel​

Contact​