Benjamin Lu

 

Benlu369@gmail.com

 

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

 

·               7.5 years Cloud Engineer experience in support, architecture for Yahoo Cloud Data Storage, Data Infrastructure Planning, Setup, Data Store Solutions, and Data Highway, Data Mining…etc.

·               15 years Unix and Linux + application support experience: OS covered: Red hat Linux (RHEL 3.0 - 6.x), Suse Linux (8.0-9.0 ES), Sun Solaris (2.6, 7-10), FreeBSD (5 - 6.x).

·               Experienced in Yahoo Mobstor / Ceph Object Cloud Storage, NoSQL support.

·               Experienced in CM3, Chef Automation, SAN & NAS storage, and Vmware.

·               Used Shell 15 years, Python 7 years for various tasks in Applications + System Administration for Performance Tuning, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting.

·               Experienced in NetApp Data Ontap7.1 –7.3 storage & filer configuration.

·               Experienced in iPlanet, apache/yapache, Jboss web, application servers setup.

·               System Installations and Configurations of DNS, NIS, NIS+, NFS, AutoFS, DHCP, FTP, SFTP, SSH, Telnet … on Unix OS.

·               Experienced In Weblogic 6-8.1 web application server Installation, configuration, support.

·               Knowledgeable in: HTML5, CSS3, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Hadoop, OpenStack, Ceph, Chef, Ansible, AWS, S3, Swift, Google App Engine, Splunk.

 

EXPERIENCE

 

12/2014 --- Present

Cephswift Inc, San Jose, CA

Cloud Architect & Sr Lab Engineer, Working on testing Ceph, OpenStack, Automation with Chef, Ansible…etc for Cloud Infrastructure Solutions.

 

·               Currently working at a confidential client site as a Cloud Infrastructure Consultant.

·               Lead Chef Project for Cloud Infrastructure, created Chef Automation from ground zero, with in house Github code repository, defined environments, roles, policies, coded, deployed recipes/cookbooks, data bags into production.

·               Working on two data center Infrastructure architecture and setup with PCF - Pivotal-Cloud-Foundry, Dell iDEAC7, Vmware Vsphere, Vcenter, Hypervisor/ESXi, Centos, Ubuntu Linux, Pure Storage, Scality for both block and object storage solutions.

 

07/2012---11/2014

Yahoo, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Senior Services Engineer, Working in Mobstor / Ceph Cloud Storage team for cloud infrastructure architecture and support.
 

·                           Worked in data solution architecture, cloud infrastructure planning, setup and support for

for yahoo private and public Cloud Object Storage.

·               Supported Mobstor Data Storage Systems about 200+ filers, and 2000+ RHEL servers, run yapache, MySQL replication, mobstor applications. The services provide HA - high availability and fast access Internet storage for yahoo domain users to store, access their data on Write Once, Read Many bases.

·               Used Yahoo OpenStack environment and Ceph cluster setup to test new solutions.

·               Worked with developer to upgrade applications, systems. Troubleshooting multiple application and system issues.

·               Wrote automation shell script to monitor all vols on all filers, create daily report for oncall.

·               Wrote automation python script to scan error code on web servers. If customer has failed http request with PUT, GET, DELETE, or UPDATE, the script will alert on-call engineer immediately to take action.

·               Wrote pkgs both from shell and python for social team to monitor RTDS data flow from Twitter API to Grid in Hadoop.

·               Created RTDS SE current version run book for OPS.

·               Created RTDS BCP plan, Diagram, lead the BCP test to have RTDS BCP certified from one colo to other.

·               Lead, Completed Mobstor BCP certification programs for all Yahoo colos.

·               Helped Flickr, video, photo, future capacity planning, launch, usage reporting…

·               Lead Flickr new farms build up project, delivered the object storage services to Flickr for Yahoo video, photo store growth in public service.

·               Worked with mail, storage, and network team to troubleshoot, fix Yahoo mail outage, performance issues…etc.

 

09/2007--- 07/2012

Yahoo, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Senior Technical Yahoo, Working on Production Support in Data Highway, Data Mining for Yahoo Data Platform, and Yahoo Search

 

·               Supported Yahoo Data Highway systems about 1400+ FreeBSD Unix and RedHat Linux servers for yahoo web access log collections from all yahoo colos and data centers world wide and manage user access, applications on those hosts in daily work basis.

·               Experienced with production support of data warehouse batch ETL process.

·               Follow, debug, update existing running Perl and Shell scripts in production for data processes, data collection from Yahoo search engine, yahoo web user behaviors, and clicks on all yahoo sites. Wrote my own scripts in shell, python, mysql to help data process and inquiry.

·               Setup, manage, and monitor data process over all Data Highway systems and Data transfers from systems to systems for big data collection.

·               Setup, update hosts profile in OpsDB, running auto re-image for multiple host installation.

·               Involved data highway infrastructure planning such as storage & filers capacity, network connectivity, hardware & software upgrade for data ongoing growth need.

·               Schedule automation running jobs from regular Unix crontab and Yahoo yinst cron for daily, weekly, monthly data processes.

·               Use perl and shell scripts, mysql to query data collection and data process status in Data storage, filers from one colo to others.  Setup cron auto run script to clean multiple filer volumes and send status report to team.

·               Monitor system OS running alerts and data process running errors, find root cause and fix them. Open and update tickets in Yahoo Bugzilla system for production issues.

·               Deploy patches, CMRs, ECMRs to fix bugs for system and application update.

·               Close worked with product managers and developer team for detailed quality control to test and deliver new process to production environment.

·               Take 7x24 on-call rotated with other 5 engineers cross US and Indian team for production support, create web based daily report and twiki pages for team and management.

·               Completed all On-call duties and many CMRs for regular Data highway production support to a high degree of proficiency and without issues.

·               Helped Y! Search team to build up new properties in year 2010:

·               Led the setup of system tool -- CM3 (Change Management Version 3.0) and Argus monitoring for the Yahoo search team; CM3 was setup for more than 3000 hosts in search properties; Argus monitor was setup for new search properties: RTDS, YHS and CS.

·               Helped on-boarding new Yahoo Search properties: Real Time Data Service (RTDS), Yahoo Hosted Search (YHS), Contextual Shortcuts, and Infinite Browse. Performed much work on Opsdb, and trained some Engineers for Opsdb, Igor, cm3, Argus...etc.

·               Completed two BCP (Business Continuity Plan) fail-over tests as main operation engineer for real command line work (two BCP: Swift BCP between colo sp2 & ac4, and DH BCP between colo gq1 & ne1).

·               Led the successful and smooth replacement of Gemstone2 system tool with CM3 for 1400+ Data Highway hosts; Provided CM3 training and twiki documents for DH team and Cloud Computing Organization.

·               Close worked with developer team for detailed quality control to test and deliver new process to production environment.

·               Work together and closely with team and product managers for variant job coordinations.
 

06/2006 --- 09/2007

Earthlink, Pasadena, CA, USA

Senior Unix & Weblogic Administrator --- Production Support
 

·               Supporting Earthlink /Helio data center system installations, upgrades consisting of more than 200 Solaris 9 /10 servers and supporting more than 500 users in daily work basis.

·               Performed Sun new tech--Zone, ZFS planning and fixing production running problems via CR systems and SiteScope, BigBrother Monitors.

·               Responsible for installation/configuration of hardware and software, migrating systems to current OS releases, upgrading software and tools, configuring and maintaining EMC SAN storage devices using Veritas (VxVM), Veritas Netbackup.

·               Deployed and configured Weblogic, iPlanet--Sun One, JBoss, Apache web appication servers.

·               Deployed hundreds Systems and Web Application patches upon services requirement.

·               Installed, configured and maintained Weblogic 8.x cluster server services environment.

·               Performed large volume of Web, JAVA Application Patches deployment to update, debug currently running production systems that providing critical web accesses, e-business, online sales, e-payments…etc.

 

09/2005 --- 06/2006

GM/EDS Michigan IT Solution Centre, Pontiac, MI, USA

Senior Information System Analyst --- Production Support
 

·               Supporting GM OnStar system communications between OnStar User, Satellite and four call center in US, Canada and Philippines to provide road site help for GM customers who has OnStar system installed in their vehicles.

·               Supported more than 50 Java applications, Weblogic instances that running on over 200 Unix systems consisting of Sun Solaris 8, IBM AIX operating systems.

·               Involved troubleshooting related from OS, Network, Security, E-mail, and messages.

·               Take oncall duty as Level 2 Production Support Engineer for 24x7 critical OnStar system maintenance, monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting.

·               Deployed OnStar core application ---3.0. Involved with troubleshooting and fixing of problems on 3.0 applications.

·               Involved OnsStar system update, data loading, installation, analysis, programming

·               Involved with troubleshooting and fixing of problems on Weblogic Application Servers.

 

06/2004 --- 05/2005,

Senior Unix, Linux and Weblogic Administrator, Unic Solutions, Toronto, Ont, Canada
 

 

01/2000 --- 05/2004

Unix, Linux, Windows administrator

Vtech-Tandex Technologies. Markham. Ont, Canada.

 

01/2002 --- 11/2003 

Graduate Study - Information Systems

Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI.
 

 

TRANING AND EDUCATION
 

·               Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI, USA. Master Degree of Science in Information Systems, 2003;

·               Chef Fundamentals -- training at Yahoo Sunnyvale, CA. 2014.

·               CEPH-100 : Ceph Fundamentals -- training at Yahoo Sunnyvale, CA. 2014.

·               CEPH-110 : Ceph Operations and Tuning – training at Yahoo Sunnyvale, CA. 2014.

·               RHEL Linux system performance tuning -- training at Yahoo Sunnyvale, CA. 2014.

·               Hadoop Essentials, Big Data -- training at Yahoo Sunnyvale, CA. 2013.

·               Perl advance, PHP, HTML5, CSS3 programing - training at Yahoo Sunnyvale, CA. 2011.              

·               NetApp Data Ontap 7.0 –7.1 storage & filer configuration and management training, NetApp company, Sunnyvale, CA. 2009              

·               Cisco CCIE Professional Training, CSS1 (Cisco Security Specialist 1), Check Point NG. Winnet, Toronto. 2002                                                                                       

·               Sun Microsystems - Certified Solaris 2.x Systems Administration. Toronto. 2000

 

Honor & Awards
 

·               Your Rock ! Q2 2014. This Award is for Mobstor Object Cloud Storage team for excellent support above all others in 1000+ engineers organization from Cloud Computing Engineering Division. I am the one of total three get this Award.
 

·               Your Rock ! Benjamin Lu, Data Highway Team, Q3 2009 Recipient.  Award & Data Wizard winner for outstanding performance, production delivery and support in the cloud computing division of Yahoo.