# Suresh Rajagopalan

> Principal Engineer at Commvault

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sureshrajagopalan

1)	20+ years of Backend Engineering experience and 24/7 operations.
2)	Experienced with operating and maintaining modern distributed systems like Cassandra, Hadoop, Openstack, 
3)	Strong experience with large infrastructures –provisioning, automation, monitoring, performance tuning & troubleshooting.





Cloud Technologies:  Openstack, AWS, Azure
Backend apps:		Apache, IIS, LVS, Samba, Elasticsearch, Kibana
			Haproxy, Nginx, Celery, RabbitMQ, Varnish, Squid
Automation:		Kickstart, Cacti, WDS.
Hardware:	 	Cisco Routers (6500, Nexus), Checkpoint, Riverbed.
SAN:			Netapp, EMC, Brocade.
Databases:		Mysql, MS-SQL, Mongodb, Cassandra, Hadoop/Mapreduce
Server OS:	Linux/Redhat/CentOS, Solaris/ZFS, VMware ESX, FreeBSD, Windows.
Specialties: Routing Protocols: 	BGP, OSPF, EIGRP
Network OS:		IOS, NX-OS.
Languages:		Python Tcl, Python, Perl, PHP, Powershell

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Commvault
Jan 2019 – Present | Santa Clara

### VP, Solutions /Devops @ Hedvig Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
-	Founding engineer at Hedvig.
-	Responsible for several areas of the product including packaging, delivery, testing, automation, integration.
-	Responsible for integration with  Openstack, AWS, Azure, Docker, Vsphere  and Hyperv.
-	Responsible for complete automation of product installation using Ansible.
-	Responsible for setup of hybrid and cloud deployments at Google, Azure, AWS.

### Network, Storage & Virtualization Architect @ William O'Neil + Co. Inc.
Jan 2001 – Jan 2012
-	Responsible for Network, Security and storage (SAN).
-	Designed, built and managed entire webstack (investors.com).  Installed, configured and maintained load balancers, cache layer and backend web & database servers.
-	Network responsibilities include Internet Backbone and routing,   Routing infrastructure consists of Cisco Nexus 7000/6500/7200 switches and Checkpoint firewalls and WAN optimization (Riverbed).  Customized linux kernels as a part of security hardening.
-	Implemented intrusion prevention for web and other critical database applications with IPS technologies
-	Setup a large scale packet capture, processing and analysis with a custom 10Gb probe. This involves a distributed setup using Python, Celery, Rabbitmq & Mongodb.
-	Configured, managed and monitored Netapp FAS  series filers and HP MSA SAN disk arrays. Storage & SAN performance tuning.

### Network Architect @ Cinenet Communications
Jan 1994 – Jan 2001 | Greater Los Angeles Area
-	Complete Unix System Administration and design.
-	Internet Backbone routing (BGP,OSPF,EIGRP), Unix security, Sendmail mail configurations, 
-	Linux and Solaris kernel hardening .
-	Configuring and troubleshooting LAN & WAN hardware (such as routers and CSU/DSU’s) and maintenance of Usenet news servers.   
-	Designed and built a VOIP system.

### Network Administrator @ Media Super Collider
Jan 1997 – Jan 2001 | Los Angeles
-	Maintaining a large Web and Chat farm for an Internet Online Community. 
-	This includes a LAMP stack with Linux LVS (load balancing).
-	Implemented one of the earliest DSR (Direct Server Return) load balancing with LVS.

### Network Administrator @ USC School of Cinema
Jan 1996 – Jan 1997
-	Installed and configured the Animation lab with 20 SGI O2’s , 4 Ultrasparc and several Windows NT machines. Installed and maintained Alias/Wavefront, Maya, Softimage, Xaos, Renderman software.

### Network Administrator @ BuzzFX
Jan 1996 – Jan 1996
i)	Built and maintained a TCP/IP network using SGI and Macintosh machines for a television production.   
ii)	Interfaced the TCP/IP network to a Video/production unit consisting of a Disk Recorder (Sierra Design Labs), Betacam, ¾” tape, VHS recorder and a color sync generator.   
iii)	Managed software such as Alias/Wavefront, Softimage and Electricimage.

### Systems Analyst @ Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Jan 1991 – Jan 1996
Developed, supported and maintained software for LA Metro Operations on an IBM mainframe.

### Systems Analyst @ Schimpeler Corradino Associates
Jan 1988 – Jan 1991
Developed forecasting models for traffic and growth projections, participated in public hearings on environmental impacts for Rail projects in Los Angeles, Miami and Ohio.   Developed cost/benefit methodologies and economic impacts for procuring Federal assistance for these projects.


## Education
### M.S in Transportation Engineering
Virgina Tech

### B.Tech in Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/suresh-rajagopalan-a5650413

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Last updated: 2026-04-12