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Abhi Yerra

That which you see as
other than righteousness and unrighteousness,
other than all this cause and effect,
other than what has been and what is to be—tell me THAT.
-Katha Upanishad

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​

Nevada County Democrats​

  • Setup project management and pipelines.

Sonoma Fire Info​

  • Part of core team of five that built a community response for the Tubbs Fire in Sonoma County.
  • Helped grow group to over 70 volunteers.

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

Contact​