Hi there, I'm Tejas Parikh 👋
🚀 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.
📍 Location: Boston, MA, USA
🌐 Website: tejasparikh.com
👥 GitHub: @tejasparikh
💼 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
🎓 Education
- Master of Science in Computer Science - Northeastern University (2009)
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science - Eastern Michigan University (2006)
🛠️ Technical Expertise
Cloud Platforms & Technologies
Container & Orchestration
DevOps & SRE
Core Competencies
- ☁️ Cloud Architecture: Hybrid cloud, microservices, distributed systems
- 🔧 DevOps & Automation: CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management
- 📊 Observability: Monitoring, logging, metrics, distributed tracing
- 🏗️ Site Reliability Engineering: Scalability, high availability, disaster recovery
- 🔒 Security: Cloud security, compliance, identity management
- 📈 Performance: Auto-scaling, load balancing, optimization
📚 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
- 🔓 Open Source: Contributing to and advocating for open source projects
- ☸️ CNCF Technologies: Kubernetes, Prometheus, Service Mesh
- 🤖 Automation: Building tools to eliminate toil and improve efficiency
- 📖 Technical Writing: Sharing knowledge through documentation and tutorials
- 🎯 Cloud Native: Designing applications for cloud environments
📫 Connect With Me
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"Passionate about all things open source, Linux, DevOps, SRE, Automation, the Cloud, Kubernetes and more."