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Abhishek Adhikari

Site Reliability Engineer, 3+ Years of EXP.

About Me

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Media.net with over 3 years of experience specializing in high-availability Big Data infrastructure (Hadoop, Spark, Elasticsearch, Airflow, MySQL/PostgreSQL) across On-Premise and GCP. Expertise is grounded in a strong command of Linux, Networking, and Hardware. Dedicated contributor to the Nixpkgs project, driven by a commitment to robust, reproducible systems.

Work Experience

2025 - Present
Media.net

Site Reliability Engineer 2

  • Primary Point of Contact (PoC) for critical distributed systems, specifically owning the architecture and operational excellence of Apache Airflow, Elasticsearch, and the Centralized Monitoring and LoadBalancing Stack.
  • Elevated role to act as a key infrastructure consultant, directly engaging with cross-functional development, data science, and product teams to gather requirements, propose alternative solutions, and architect new infrastructure on On-Premise and GCP.
  • Demonstrated an increase in ownership from cluster-specific tasks to platform-level responsibility, focusing on long-term capacity planning, cost optimization, reliability (SLOs/SLIs), and security posture for multiple Big Data platforms.
  • Proactively identified and addressed infrastructure bottlenecks, contributing to significant performance improvements and cost reduction across the Big Data ecosystem through configuration tuning and efficient resource management.
2022 - 2025
Media.net

Site Reliability Engineer

  • Actively managed, monitored, and scaled core Big Data infrastructure, gaining deep operational expertise in Hadoop (HDFS/Yarn/HBase), Elasticsearch, Apache Airflow, and the centralized monitoring stack through hands-on cluster operation and maintenance.
  • Developed and implemented reproducible machine configurations across the datacenter using the Nix package manager, streamlining provisioning and ensuring state consistency for critical services.
  • Contributed directly to the upstream Nixpkgs repository, enhancing the community-maintained collection of packages and modules used for internal infrastructure deployments.
  • Played a key role in a major On-Premise datacenter migration, where I designed and wrote modular, robust Nix deployment codes for Airflow, Elasticsearch, Monitoring components, and HAProxy, which significantly accelerated the deployment pipeline and ensured a seamless, low-risk cutover.
  • Executed routine database operations (backup, restoration, replication setup) for production MySQL and PostgreSQL clusters, maintaining high availability and data integrity.
2021 - 2022
SpeakUp Inc.

Freelance - Frontend Engineer

  • Seamlessly transitioned conceptual project requirements into user-friendly interfaces, focusing on designing UIs that meet both functional and aesthetic goals.
  • Actively improved the user journey, dedicated to enhancing the UX for customers through thoughtful feature design and continuous iteration.
  • Championed development efficiency by authoring and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions), ensuring fast and reliable application deployment.
  • Skillfully utilized a modern stack including React, JavaScript, Node.js, Sass, Figma, and cloud services like Azure and Cloudflare to deliver high-quality web solutions.
2021 - 2021
ThumbStack Technologies

Internship - MERN Developer

  • Managed and successfully delivered diverse client projects, consistently meeting requirements and ensuring timely project delivery.
  • Gained comprehensive full-stack experience by developing a Project Management tool using the MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) stack.
  • Explored mobile development by utilizing React Native to build and launch a functional game, demonstrating adaptability across different platforms.

Techincal Skills

  • Linux / Networking / Hardware
  • Hadoop (HDFS/Yarn/HBase)
  • Apache Spark / Airflow
  • MySQL / PostgreSQL
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Python / Bash Scripting
  • Elasticsearch / JupyterHub

Soft Skills

  • Technical Leadership
  • Incident Management
  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Systematic Problem-Solving
  • Documentation & Knowledge Transfer

Projects

Nixpkgs Contribution: pymssql

Submitted and maintained updates for the pymssql package within the official Nixpkgs repository, ensuring stable and reproducible Python library builds for SQL Server integration across the Nix ecosystem. This work facilitates reliable dependency management for critical deployment environments.

Education

  • B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering
    Kalyani Government Engineering College, Kalyani
    2018 - 2022

Languages

  • English
  • Hindi