Team Lead Data Center

Roy Singhal

Professional Summary:

Accomplished lead Linux Architect with over 12 years of experience

including NVIDIA DGX and GPU systems.

Skilled in evaluating short and long term business goals, analyzing systems, and leading entire hardware and software development processes from conception to completion.

Excellent communicator, presenter and team leader.

Experienced enterprise systems integrator, developing highly scalable systems that accommodate future growth, minimize risk, and optimize long term investment in IT infrastructure.

Experienced in Architecture, performance troubleshooting, and storage including Isilon, Tintri and GPFS.

Skills:

HPC architecture design, implementation and resource planning.

Lead Enterprise Architect.

Team lead for multiple projects.

Rocks HPC using Moab and Torque

Univa Grid Engine(HPC)

Sun Grid Engine(HPC)

Bright HPC Computing.

Data center design, installation and administration

RedHat Clustering and GFS

Ansible Automation

Bash scripting experience

ASA firewall administration

Vmware ESX and Vsphere experience

CI/CD automation

Mysql deployment and administration

Rack Space cloud architecture

Postgresql deployment and administration

Professional Experience:

BlueCoat Solutions June 2021 – Present

Senior Linux administration

Bright HPC administration and architecture

NVIDIA DGX architect

Team Lead for application and infrastructure architecture

Apple April 2019 – June 2021

Senior Linux administration

Systems Architect

AWS cloud architect

Vsphere 6.0 architect and administration

Ansible automation

CI/CD automation

Team Lead for application and infrastructure architecture

Data center design and implementation

Tintri architecture and administration

Isilon architecture and administration

HPC cluster architecture and administration

BlueCoat Solutions May 2016 – April 2019

Chief Systems Architect

HPC cluster architecture and administration

AWS cloud architect

Senior Linux administration

Vsphere 6.0

CloudForms architect

OpenShift architect

Ansible Tower architect

HPC Univa Grid Engine

Senior Linux administration

CI/CD automation

Graphite system administration and monitoring

Team Lead for application and infrastructure architecture

Data center design and implementation

Kia December 2015 – May 2016

UNIX Senior Systems Administrator and Chief Architect

Tuned the infrastructure and add resources to increase capacity and decrease downtime.

Created the first successful Super Bowl advertising campaign in 5 years by tuning the servers, network and applications for maximum performance and increasing the cloud and physical server count.

Apache architect

Team Lead for software and hardware architecture

DirecTV December 2014 – May 2015

Tuned the POP servers for The NFL package.

Linux Senior Systems Administrator and Chief Architect

Tuned the infrastructure and add resources to increase capacity and decrease downtime

Increased network throughput of infrastructure

Key resource for software and hardware issues

Rack Space cloud architect

CI/CD automation

ASA firewall administration

Zenimaxonline April 2014 – December 2014

UNIX Senior Systems Administrator and Chief Architect

Migrated desktop devices and applications to servers

Tuned the infrastructure and add resources to increase capacity and decrease downtime

Key resource for software and hardware issues

Chicos September 2013 – April 2014

Team Lead and Chief Architect

Key resource for JBOSS, Tomcat and ATG issues

key resource for ATG architecture, design

Application migration

AWS cloud architect

Network analysis using packet capture tools

Boar’s Head April 2013 – September 2013

Chief Architect

Team Lead for application troubleshooting and infrastructure architecture

Primary resource for new infrastructure

Implementation engineer resource for the planning and design of the new infrastructure

Key resource for Vmware

Graphite system administration and monitoring

ASA firewall administration

Application migration

Chicos August 2012 – April 2013

Chief Architect

Tuned the infrastructure and add resources to increase capacity and decrease downtime.

Team Lead for application and infrastructure troubleshooting.

Key resource for JBOSS, Tomcat and ATG issues

United Airlines August 2011 – July 2012

Chief Architect

Team Lead for HPC Sun Grid Engine cluster.

Websphere applications and infrastructure architecture

Provided architectural design and strategy development during complex business transition, legacy infrastructure during a large company merger.

Identified systems and applications to be decommissioned, notified business owners, and forged strategy to back up all data during decommission processes.

Re-deployed or retired all infrastructure assets on-schedule.

Developed infrastructure systems, supporting cloud company systems.

Communicated with various groups and coordinated application testing and delivering roadmaps and other deliverables.

Directed groups to identify and gather information on all application systems, supporting infrastructure, and disaster recovery systems. Designed dependency model to discover information quickly and translate to new organization.

Windows/Unix/Linux Technical/Product Knowledge Sharing and shared best practices.

Provided high-level solutions designs to migrate legacy architectures based on the architectures/plans.

Met with business units to address needs for future products/services.

Forest Pharmaceutical June 2010 – August 2011

Senior Architect

Directly responsible for benchmarking and creating strategy for the decommissioning of old legacy hardware and software

Acted as a key resource for the migration of applications from one operating system to another

Strategized with team leadership to create a road map for increased systems availability

Created and adhered to major milestones for the implementation of the new systems

RCCL December 2009 – June 2010

Chief Architect and Systems Administrator

Directly responsible for creating and implementing the POS system for RCCL

Responsible for first successful deployment of POS system on first attempt.

Created HA design to increase systems availability

World Media February 2008 – December 2009

UNIX Senior Systems Administrator

Architected a backup strategy to increase systems availability

Increased system performance

Architected a monitoring solution

BANKUNITED July 2007 – February 2008

UNIX Senior Systems Administrator

Created Oracle RAC 10g architecture for implementation in a new program initiative

Chief Linux administrator and architect

Acted as vendor relations manager for SAN hardware design

Increased systems availability

ASSURANT April 2007 – July 2007

UNIX Senior Systems Administrator

Created new monitoring tool suite for data center deployment

Chief Linux administrator and systems architect

Acted as vendor relations manager for new data center implementation.

THE FUND January 2007 – April 2007

UNIX Senior Systems Administrator

Strategic backup architect using vdisk technology

Prepared and implemented design center Unix to Linux migration

Analyzed and redesigned hardware to increase server throughput

OFFICE DEPOT August 2006 – January 2007

Data Center Architect

Analyzed and redesigned backup hardware and software suite

Created new backup strategy

Architected new design to implement the new backup strategy

SOUTHERN WINE AND SPIRITS May 2006 – August 2006

Unix Architect

Analyzed and designed a new infrastructure for future company growth

Acted as lead architect for company wide resources

Acted as vendor relations manager for hardware proposal

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