Sumit Lakra
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSumit Lakra is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale, resilient distributed systems, currently working at Akamai after a multi-year SRE tenure at Media.net. He combines deep UNIX/Linux internals expertise, RHCSA and CompTIA Linux+ certifications, and hands-on kernel and database work (including FreeBSD packet-scheduling research and NUMA improvements for MariaDB) to drive measurable uptime and performance gains. At Media.net he automated cloud operations on AWS/GCP, instrumented services with ELK and Grafana, and reduced production downtime through rigorous on-call responses and postmortems. Sumit excels at translating low-level systems knowledge into practical SLO-driven infrastructure, and he brings a rare kernel-to-cloud perspective that helps optimize both throughput and latency for high-traffic environments. Based in Mumbai, he seeks roles in fast-moving, large-scale organizations where reliability engineering can materially improve customer-facing service quality.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, English; Science; Maths; Informatics Practices; Physical Education., 87.4%, High School, English; Science; Maths; Informatics Practices; Physical Education., 87.4% at ST. Michael's High School, PatnaHigh School, English Language & Literature; Science; Maths; Computer Applications; Environmental Education; HCG., 92.3%, High School, English Language & Literature; Science; Maths; Computer Applications; Environmental Education; HCG., 92.3% at ST. Xavier's School, SahibganjBachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology at Cluster Innovation Centre
English, Hindi, santali
Github Skills (36)
json10
mysql-server10
mysql10
mariadb10
geographical-information-system10
amazon-web-services10
sql10
rdbms10
relational-databases10
database10
galera9
vector-database9
storage-engine9
sql-server9
flask9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
theGodlessLakra/freebsd-pspat
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:30 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
srcfreebsdread-only
theGodlessLakra/Assignment_1_rollno_11532_Vinay
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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