Cassandra Admin Resume — 2023

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 3.5 years of IT industry experience, 1.5 years as a Live OPs Engineer, and 2 years as Cassandra Administrator.
• 2 years of Cassandra Administration.
• Experience as on-call 24x7 production DBA support with ticketing system environments.
• Creating best practice guide for customers and tuning Cassandra for the performance boost.
• Excellent Communication skills, coordination, and communication with system administrators, business data analysts, and development teams.
• Hands-on incident management, service delivery & quality support.

PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Cassandra Admin. | XYZ Company

• Design and help implement new Cassandra deployments.
• Evaluate existing clusters and provide recommendations on best practices.
• Provide performance and forecast reports on the health and load of critical business processes to help ensure the infrastructure has adequate capacity.
• Install/configure/upgrade/maintain/tune and administration of Apache Cassandra.
• In-depth knowledge of Cassandra read-write paths and internal architecture.
• Experience in creating Column Families: Bootstrapping, decommissioning, removing, and repairing nodes.
• Adding, removing, and replacing nodes, repairing, clean up, rebuild, troubleshooting, and monitoring the Cassandra cluster.
• Taking snapshots, recovering from snapshot, disaster recovery and incremental backup of Cassandra cluster.
• Performance tuning Apache Cassandra.
• Experience in creating key spaces, tables and secondary indexes in Cassandra and working with Cassandra Query Language.
• Experience in setting up the required replication factor for key space. • Participate in DBA team on-call pager rotation and on-call support duties.
• Daily operation support on DB tasks on incidents, requests, and change activities. • Set up automation like running repairs/compaction.
• Knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure Environment.
• Good knowledge on launch Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) instances with security groups and key pairs.

Environment:

Cassandra, Linux/ Unix, AWS

LiveOps Engineer. | XYZ Company

• Worked for Live ops team along with the team to provide end-to-end support 24X7 for Gaming applications.
• Providing support to keep the application in an active state, providing services related to mobile applications of gaming servers by Kibana.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting day-to-day Transactions issues, and analyzing the logs.
• Did all monitoring activities like observing the Server CPU, Memory, and Uptime to track all application health by using the NewRelic tool.
• Performed production support activities that involve assignments of issues and issues analysis and resolution within specified SLAs.
• • Used Grafana to check GC and heap memory triggers more than 90% for different gaming servers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS OS:

Linux, Windows

Database: Cassandra

Languages: CQL

Ticketing Tools: Jira

Monitoring tool: DataDog