Tarun Verma

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

tr.vrma@gmail.com
London, UK
https://linkedin.com/in/tarun08
https://github.com/tarun-verma

Professional Summary

Seasoned SRE with 9+ years of experience. I possess a keen interest in systems programming, compute infrastructure, scalability and observability. Outside of reliability engineering, I have an amateur interest in theory of computation, first order logic, and systems security.

Experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Production Edge

May 2021 - Present
Yelp, London, UK
  • Image Serving Rearchitecture: Rewrote the image serving pipeline at Yelp using Python’s PIL, resulting in improved site and SEO performance.
  • Threat Mitigation@Yelp: Built a self-service platform for reactive and proactive threat detection and mitigation; onboarded 10+ teams.
  • Terminal Velocity: Engineered a new change pipeline to simplify Yelp’s ingress infrastructure changes, improved turnaround times.

Site Reliability Engineer, Edge Engineering

Aug 2018 - Feb 2021
LinkedIn, Bangalore, India
  • CDN Purge API: Wrote purge API for new CDN partners, providing business and product teams with quick and reliable access to CDN operations.
  • Edge@LinkedIn China: co-led the configuration and vetting of LinkedIn’s Edge infrastructure in China.
  • Operations work: CDN, DNS, & SSL management, DNS RUM routing improvements, last mile optimisations, etc.

Site Reliability Engineer, Media.net Ad Exchange (MAX)

May 2016 - July 2018
Media.net, Mumbai, India
  • MAX Infra: co-architect and co-maintainer of the entire infrastructure of Media.net’s Ad Exchange team.
  • MAX Analytics: Engineered the MAX analytics pipeline, helping business teams make better revenue decisions.
  • Operations work: Improved the observability and CI/CD stack across the org.

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering

2012 - 2016
IIIT Delhi

Technical Skills

Languages

Python, Rust, Go, C

Platforms & Infrastruture

AWS, Azure, Apache Cloudstack, Pulumi, Terraform, Kubernetes

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Zipkin

Orchestration

Docker, Puppet, Jenkins, GitHub Actions

Databases

Redis, Cassandra, MySQL, Kafka, Druid

Web Servers

NGINX, Apache, Varnish, HAProxy, Envoy, OpenResty

Projects

Censorship Subversion in Anonymous Networks (Undergraduate Thesis)

Accessing Tor censors without sacrificing anonymity. Implemented a new anonymous authentication scheme to achieve the same.

Avoidance Routing

Surveyed various avoidance routing schemes and demonstrated the state of the art using PlanetLab.

Intrusion Detection System

Wrote an intrusion detection system to alert the end user for suspicious usage behaviours by constantly monitoring various system stats.

Languages

English

Native

Hindi

Native