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Hi, I am Krishanu

Krishanu Konar

Production Engineer at Meta

A passionate engineer keeping the ship sailing and automating his work away, having 6 years of experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and maintaining highly available and scalable large-scale distributed systems. Currently working with the Enterprise Engineering team @ Meta on products related to network automation. Previous experience include building cutting edge products in Ad-Tech space for one of the largest contextual advertising platforms worldwide. Former contributor to open source development @ DBpedia. Areas of Interest include scripting, automation, distributed systems, microservices architecture and semantic web technologies. Hobbies include gaming, music, football and learning about finance!

Leadership
Team Work
Communication
System Design
Automation
Problem Solving

Work Experience

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Production Engineer
Meta

July 2024 - Present, London, UK

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities and grow businesses.

Responsibilities:
  • Working with the Enterprise Engineering team, building tools and automations around the enterprise network infrastructure.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Media.net

July 2018 - June 2024, Mumbai, India

Media.net is a global advertising company with one of the most comprehensive portfolios of advertising technology in the industry across search, native, display, mobile, local, products and video and its products are licensed by some of the largest publishers, ad networks and other ad tech companies worldwide.

Responsibilities:
  • Leading a team of 4, working on overhauling the current Ad-Serving Infrastructure to move from older autoscaled VM backed services to a more efficient microservices based architecture using Kubernetes
  • Previously implemented autoscaling infrastructure to handle sustained volume and huge spikes of traffic, handling more than 3 billion requests per day.
  • Maintaining infrastructure reliability and optimizations for serving 40-50k RPS, with an SLO of 99 percentile response time of 10-100ms.
  • Managing more than 200 servers hosting different services, while maintaining high availability of our systems.
  • Building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines for rapid deployments of new features, as well as implementing GitOps.
  • Cost optimisation for the company by de-coupling and segregating different processes within our serving infrastructure.
  • Led discussions/implementation on system design and capacity planning for our services. Setup multiple different pipelines to improve observability across clusters and streamlining alerting platforms, reducing incident MTTA and MTTR significantly.
  • Interacting with frontend/backend/database developers, product and QA teams to aid and implement different features.
  • Rotational on-call schedules and incident response to make sure our services see minimum downtime.
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Software Development Intern
Media.net

Jan 2018 - Jun 2018, Mumbai, India

Responsibilities:
  • Created an internal tool for querying and visualizing Active Directory information.
  • Integrated secret management with internal tools.

Student Developer
DBpedia - Google Summer of Code 2017

May 2017 - Aug 2017, Remote

Responsibilities:
  • Worked on Wikipedia List Extractor.
  • This project focused on developing a tool for the extraction of relevant but hidden data which lies inside lists in Wikipedia pages, form appropriate RDF triplets which follow existing DBpedia ontology and finally appending these triplets and extend the DBpedia dataset.
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Mentor
DBpedia - Google Summer of Code 2018, 2019

2018 - 2019, Remote

Responsibilities:
  • 2018: Co-mentored student on the project tablist extractor, which fused previous 2 dbpedia projects of list and table extractors, as well as an interactive GUI for the same.
  • 2019: Co-mentored student on the project of an approach for ontology alignment through the use of an unsupervised mixed neural network.

Skills

Education

B.Tech in Information and Communtication Technology
CPA: 7.96 out of 10
Taken Courses
Course Name Total Credit Obtained Credit
Computer Networks 10 9
Operating Systems 10 9
Software Engineering 10 9
Data Structures and Algorithms 10 8
Database Management System 10 8
Extracurricular Activities
  • Member of the open source club, encouraged students to contribute to open source and helped them in applying for Google summer of code.
  • Lead Radio Jockey in the university Radio Club, recorded and edited many shows and interviews for radio club.
Kendriya Vidyalaya
2012-2013
Senior Secondary (+2) School
Percentage: 92.6 out of 100
Kendriya Vidyalaya
2010-2011
High School
CGPA: 10 out of 10

Blog

Projects

DBpedia List Extractor
DBpedia List Extractor
Developer May 2017 - Present

A tool used for generating and extracting rdf triplets from wikipedia lists, which are then added to dbpedia datasets.

DBpedia Tablist Extractor
DBpedia Tablist Extractor
Developer May 2018 - Present

Fusion of the table and list extractors; Generating and extracting rdf triplets for dbpedia datasets from wikipedia lists/tables.

DBpedia Ontology Alignment
DBpedia Ontology Alignment
Developer May 2019 - Present

Project presenting an approach for ontology alignment through the use of an unsupervised Recursive Neural Network.

Twitter Image Downloader
Twitter Image Downloader
Owner Jun 2018 - Present

A CLI tool that downloads media (mainly images/photos) uploaded on twitter by a given account.

Stock Results Notifier
Stock Results Notifier
Owner May 2022 - Present

Get notifications for upcoming results for companies listed on BSE. Adds support for adding result events for selected scrips on Google Calendar.