Nārāyan Harricharan

• This was a hybrid role where I was both involved with ops engineerings and full stack development
• I developed and architected a wordpress hosting platform in react, typescript, nodejs and bash
  • I worked mostly on the backend development (API's and scripts) and infra
  • Optimizing and improving docker images
  • Automated DNS, TLS, CI/CD with git
  • Implementation of the docker swarm and glusterfs infrastructure
  • Automated the entire site creation process, glueing all the different parts together
• Created and maintained an internal gitlab server
• Infra as code with puppet and ansible and testing on vagrant

• Creating and maintaining servers, mongodb, AWS services and CI/CD
• Dockerized the staging env in alpine linux
• Created bitbucket pipelines and jenkins for the new docker environment
• Bash scripting - automated AWS route53 cname creation, init.d start scripts, docker management script, etc
• Adding AWS Cloudwatch graphs to grafana
• Setting up a private npm registry

• I helped manage 6 OLX's websites in africa. Our biggest site olx.co.za was receiving millions of pageviews per day
• Maintaining high scale linux servers, mysql, redis
• Setup sensu for alerting
• Setting up ELK stack and creating graphs
• Automation of ssh keys with ansible
• Very basic bash and ruby scripting

• Creating and maintaining ubuntu and window servers
• Migrating game servers between linux and window servers
• Installation of SRCDS game servers(CS:GO and TF2), GOTV proxy servers
• Creating and modifying game server configurations
• Installation and configuration of plug-ins for the game severs
• Testing game servers and software
• Installation and configuration of unrealirc and teamspeak
• Implementation of game server web-panel TCAdmin
• Installing a monitoring solution called pulseway, later I replaced it with LibreNMS
• DDOS mitigation with bash, ufw, iptables and apache logs
• Writing tutorials on how to use and manage game servers
• Bash scripting and SSL installation
• Client support via tickets and teamspeak
• Game tournament support and administration
• Managing and training a junior linux systems administrator

• I received hands on experience with Debian Servers, RAID, BASH, AWK, SED and REGEX Scripting and also in-depth knowledge on the fundamentals of Linux LPI1.
• My training also consisted of: apt-get package management, setting up web servers with Apache, setting up e-mail servers with Postfix, installing web sites/panels, installing and configuring ISP config, bash scripting, mail flow troubleshooting, setting up DNS and configuring network interface cards.

• Responding to all calls, e-mails, walk in clients and service call outs for diagnosing and resolving hardware, software and end users problems within agreed time scales.
• Providing efficient customer support for all issues relating to desktops, laptops, apple macs, mobile devices, peripherals, routers, WIFI, telecommunication, hosting, e-mails, VOIP and networking technologies.
• Taking ownership of a call/instruction and seeing it through to closure.
• Escalating calls and issues where necessary to seniors.
• Updating support documentation
• IT support for 'Maxiclub' Point of Sale System and helped out with Vodacom accounts and device support.

Redhat Certified Systems Administrator