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tparikh/README.md

Hi there, I'm Tejas Parikh πŸ‘‹

πŸš€ About Me

I'm a Director of Engineering, Platform at Tamr and Part-Time Lecturer at Northeastern University, passionate about cloud computing, DevOps, and open source technologies. With over 15 years of experience in the field, I specialize in building and operating scalable, distributed systems in the cloud.

πŸ“ Location: Boston, MA, USA
🌐 Website: tejasparikh.com
πŸ‘₯ GitHub: @tejasparikh

πŸ’Ό Professional Experience

Current Roles

  • Director of Engineering, Platform @ Tamr (Since 2020)
  • Part-Time Lecturer @ Northeastern University (Since 2017)
    • Teaching graduate-level courses in cloud computing and distributed systems
      • CSYE 6225: Network Structures and Cloud Computing
      • CSYE 7125: Advanced Cloud Computing
      • CSYE 7374: Special Topics in Cloud Computing

Previous Experience

  • Principal Site Reliability Engineer @ Tamr, Inc.
  • Principal Software Engineer @ Red Hat
  • Lead Software Engineer @ Nielsen
  • Advisory Software Engineer @ IBM

πŸŽ“ Education

  • Master of Science in Computer Science - Northeastern University (2009)
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science - Eastern Michigan University (2006)
    • Minor in Mathematics

πŸ› οΈ Technical Expertise

Cloud Platforms & Technologies

AWS Google Cloud Azure

Container & Orchestration

Kubernetes Docker OpenShift

DevOps & SRE

Linux Git GitHub Actions

Core Competencies

  • ☁️ Cloud Architecture: Hybrid cloud, microservices, distributed systems
  • πŸ”§ DevOps & Automation: CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management
  • πŸ“Š Observability: Monitoring, logging, metrics, distributed tracing
  • πŸ—οΈ Site Reliability Engineering: Scalability, high availability, disaster recovery
  • πŸ”’ Security: Cloud security, compliance, identity management
  • πŸ“ˆ Performance: Auto-scaling, load balancing, optimization

πŸ“š Teaching & Mentorship

I'm passionate about education and have been teaching at Northeastern University since 2017. My courses focus on:

  • Cloud Computing Fundamentals: AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift
  • DevOps Practices: CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps
  • Distributed Systems: Microservices, event-driven architecture, stream processing
  • Site Reliability Engineering: Monitoring, alerting, incident management

Course Topics Include:

  • DNS and Service Discovery
  • Load Balancing and Auto-scaling
  • Metrics, Monitoring, and Health Checks
  • Logging and Observability
  • Container Patterns (Sidecar, Ambassador, Adapter)
  • Cloud Security and Compliance

🌟 Areas of Interest

  • πŸ”“ Open Source: Contributing to and advocating for open source projects
  • ☸️ CNCF Technologies: Kubernetes, Prometheus, Service Mesh
  • πŸ€– Automation: Building tools to eliminate toil and improve efficiency
  • πŸ“– Technical Writing: Sharing knowledge through documentation and tutorials
  • 🎯 Cloud Native: Designing applications for cloud environments

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"Passionate about all things open source, Linux, DevOps, SRE, Automation, the Cloud, Kubernetes and more."

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