Prasanna Kumar J

Contributing to the Future Moving infrastructures from Self Documenting and Self Monitoring to Self Healing with the power of AI

https://rjavinya.com DevOps and Cloud Solution Architect * FuturePath.ai (United States , California) Transforming Self Documenting and Self Monitoring Infrastructures to Self Healing Infrastructures With AI * Arcmedia (Switzerland) Designed and deployed scalable AWS solutions for clients using ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, and AWS Glue ETL workflows. Customized infrastructure based on client requirements while minimizing costs for test environments. * Basilic Fly Studio (India) Successfully migrated AWS infrastructure from Arch Platform Technologies to the company’s AWS environment after evaluating alternative cloud solutions. Achieved ~20% cost reduction by optimizing cloud services and improving operational efficiency. * Visromedia (USA) Implemented a secure AWS Transfer Family FTP server, ensuring data integrity and robust security. Reduced resource overhead costs by 15% by optimizing resource utilization, enabling on-demand scalability. * Skydance Animation (Spain) Delivered a multi-region renderfarm on AWS and Azure, effectively managing peak resource demands. Optimized infrastructure across OCI, GCP, and Equinix, ensuring efficient CAPEX management. Reduced rendering costs by 15%, ensuring timely project completion while maintaining cost efficiency. Led the migration of repositories to GitLab, streamlining development workflows. * Scanline VFX (Canada) Engineered a robust AWS infrastructure for AP-South operations, supporting 80+ employees in VFX production. Designed and implemented optimized workflows for high-performance VFX rendering, enhancing productivity and operational efficiency.

● Member of the Studio Infrastructure team, responsible for the development of a virtual workstation platform, Netflix Workstations, that runs on AWS. Built on Netflix standard tools, like Spinnaker and Titus, it uses SaltStack to manage the lifecycle of virtual workstations to support a variety of self-service use cases within Studio Production. ● Work with active productions to resolve production technical challenges using existing tools and systems within the Netflix ecosystem. ----------Impact on Buisiness---------- ● Deadline refactor helping in accommodating 700+ users across globe ● moving network of dell optiplex thin clients from Wireless to wired which reduced the lag in playbacks and bettering in Wacom usage experience by artists

● Strategy and leadership of the local Systems/Render/Data IO team and business application groups across Method Studios. As a Lead Systems Engineer reporting to the Global Head of Systems. ● Provide input into the budgeting process for core infrastructure CAPEX. ● Organize relevant technical training and motivational events to maintain optimum team skills and efficiency as required. ● Built and worked with a team to design ,develop and implement infrastructure for Method studios Pune by inculcating Devops strategies with CI /CD pipeline consisting of tools Bitbucket, Ansible, spacewalk, Jenkins and Rez, resulting in a self documenting infrastructure serving 300+ employees. ● Partitioned in systems architecture to establish private compute cluster capabilities to expand our 2000 core high performance compute cluster (render farm). The goal is to enable burst options to meet project deadlines while maintaining content security for film studios in isolated networks.(Using cloud technologies GCP and AWS) quick turn around for the immediate project requirements ● Zabbix with Grafana implementation for monitoring all areas ranging from network topology and server hardware through to the process and backups. This helped in achieving stable environment and increased the productivity of IT team by 30% reducing last minute firefighting and to determine accurate license forecast for the upcoming projects and Artist needs ● Implementation of Work from Home environment based on HP-RGS and Guacamole Technologies during pandemic situations helped artists to deliver 3000+ shots from home ● Audited and Hardened infrastructure for MPAA audit conducted for 3 secure projects held in Pune

● Partitioned in establishing new facilities of The Mill, Mikros Animation and MrX in India. This included working with cross site on leading the technology implementation which involved planning and pipeline implementation, transition to respective global pipelines (particularly from a production point of view). Complexities included working in different time zones with existing Technicolor Security standards and brands in the location to establish a new facility. ● Facilitating relationships between the two business units Mill advertising and MPC advertising teams in India by merging technologies in all the possible fields without disturbing Production workflow (Included Storage, Network and VM Infrastructure) ----------Impact on Business ---------- which made space for using the CAPEX in implementing new technologies for bettering support structure and opening space for selecting Devops tools to fit the business needs. ● Implementation of Nagi OS for monitoring infrastructure; Puppet for Configuration management; Spacechat a chat system through docker containerization. ----------Impact on Business ---------- Resulted in increasing the productivity of team by 30% and reduced direct human intervention with managing infrastructure

DreamWorks Dedicated Unit (Infrastructure Team) • Managing Infrastructure as Level 1&2 Engineer, • Building Workstations and Servers updating OS and updating patches. • Partitioned in testing and upgrading OS to keep pipeline in like with parent studio.

● Monitoring and managing Linux and Windows based mail server infrastructure for a Banking client (Morgan Stanley) which included writing scripts with bash and python for automating and developing self healing infrastructure. ----------Impact on Business ---------- ● scripts were able to reduce the human interaction with monitoring systems and automated manual tasks by reducing 30% of human errors.