Yugandhar G

4+ years of experience as a Splunk Administrator and Developer with expertise in Splunk Enterprise administration, Data Onboarding, indexer clustering, search head clustering, dashboard development, alert creation, and Linux admin.

Handling Splunk

Admin tasks include Installing Splunk, configuring Splunk, Securing Splunk, and Indexer Clustering.

Experience in Splunk Alerting, Reporting, and Dash boarding process.

Experience in Splunk enterprise edition. Good in Splunk architecture, components (indexer, forwarder, search head).

Installed

Splunk DB Connect in Single and distributed server environments and Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing. Expertise on most of the Linux command-line commands.

Performed Splunk

Indexer/Search Heads upgradation, installation and configuration of Splunk Apps. Implement forwarder configuration, search heads and indexing.

Installing

Splunk, Getting the data in Splunk, Managing Indexes and Cluster, Forwarding Data, Distributed Search, updating Splunk components, Securing Splunk. Worked as a Splunk Admin for Creating and managing app, Creating users, role, Permissions to knowledge objects. Played a major role in understanding the logs, server data and brought an insight of the data for the users.

On-Boarding Applications to Splunk environments. Created alerts on the requests from managers for certain tasks. Expert in installing SPLUNK apps for Linux and UI environments. Daily checks, monitoring health of an application as well as the infrastructure by using various apps.

Understanding the logs, server data and brought an insight of the data for the users. Created alerts based on the critical parameters to trigger emails to the operation Team. Analyzed and Monitored Incident management and incident resolution problems.

Software Associates / Splunk Admin/Developer - Tata Consultancy Services

(2022-04 - 2026-06)

Installed and configured various components like indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server and Universal and Heavy forwarder. Involved in admin activities and worked on inputs.conf, indexes.conf, props.conf and transforms.conf to set up time zone and time stamp extractions, complex event transformations and whether any event breaking. Helped teams to on-board data, create various knowledge objects, install and maintain the Splunk apps.

Configured distributed environment of Splunk to provide reliable environment. Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across LINUX and Windows platforms. Created admin, power and user roles for the application and created the app sharing permissions for the different roles.

Configured

Splunk for dynamic analytics and machine data indexing.

Installed

Splunk DB Connect in search head cluster environments by importing and exporting log data from databases like Oracle, MySQL. Developed alerts and timed reports and manage Splunk applications. Monitoring windows logs. Troubleshooting issue like data not fetching into search heads or indexers or HF.

Handling

Splunk daily sync up calls with team members.

• Data Integration & Onboarding: Design, develop, and maintain data ingestion pipelines in Splunk from multiple sources (servers, databases, applications, APIs, etc.).

Configure Universal

Forwarders, Heavy Forwarders, and Indexers for data collection and routing.

• Dashboard & Visualization Development: Build interactive dashboards, reports, and visualizations in Splunk using SPL (Search Processing Language).
• Splunk App & Add-on Development: Develop and maintain custom Splunk apps and technology add-ons (TA) for integration with external systems. Work with REST APIs, Python, and JavaScript for extending Splunk functionalities.
• Security, Monitoring & Maintenance: Implement access controls (RBAC) to ensure data and dashboard security.

Monitor

Splunk health, including indexer clustering, search head clustering, and license usage. Manage data retention policies and storage optimization. Perform root cause analysis and troubleshoot Splunk performance issues

B. Tech - Computer Science and Engineering - Bharath University (2018 - 2022)

12th Grade - The Nandyala Public School (2018)

10th Grade - The Nandyala Public School (2016)