Raj Shekhar
Staff System Engineer at Quantcast
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaj Shekhar is a Staff System Engineer with 17+ years of SRE and systems engineering experience, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, who has kept high-traffic consumer and ML platforms resilient since 2005. He specializes in performance tuning, capacity planning, multi-datacenter high-availability, and rapid incident response, with deep hands-on expertise in distributed systems, caching, load balancing, and observability. At Quantcast he operates Kubernetes clusters and a bespoke MapReduce-like RMR training infrastructure while driving release cycles and cost/tech-debt optimizations across cloud services. His prior SRE leadership at Twitter and Yahoo included running critical services such as monitoring, URL shortening, crawling, and live video monetization under intense traffic and tight SLAs. A pragmatic operator and mentor, Raj thrives on automating toil, postmortem-driven improvements, and enabling globally distributed teams to move fast without breaking things. He pairs a systems-first mindset with a background in large-scale web application reliability that often surfaces subtle capacity and cost opportunities others miss.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
High School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Delhi Public School - Mathura RoadUniversity of Delhi
English, Hindi
Github Skills (39)
scanner9
administrator9
vulnerabilities8
vulnerability-scanners8
openvas8
security-vulnerability8
linux8
wordpress8
cybersecurity8
security8
security-scanner8
freebsd8
vulnerability7
vulnerability-management7
security-hardening7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lunatech/pimpmyblog
Mar 2009 - Aug 2011
Contributions:10 commits in 2 years 4 months
lunatech/myq_tuner
Mar 2010 - Mar 2010
Contributions:7 commits in 2 days
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