SUMMARY

• Accomplished and strategic solutions architect with over 14 years of deep industry knowledge and multifaceted experience in the design and delivery of secure, cost effective, compliant and high performing multi - tier architectures.
• Over 6 years of experience in the healthcare industry architecting and deploying cloud based solutions including migration of complex web/enterprise applications to AWS cloud.
• Demonstrated ability to lead team & technical professionals, cross functional partnership, customer/vendor relationship management, strategic decision making and problem solving.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• AWS Cloud Services, Networking & Security
• AWS Cloud Architecture & Implementation
• Databases: MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB and Dynamo DB
• DevOps CI/CD: Jenkins/TeamCity/Nexus/GitHub
• Automation/Scripting: Cloud Formation, Chef, Shell, Python
• Multiplatform deployments: Windows, Linux, Ubuntu
• Regulatory compliance: HIPAA, GDPR, ASIP, PCI, ISO
• SSL certificate Implementation/Management
• Ownership and end-to-end Project Delivery
• Mentorship/Training

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cloud Architect & DevOPS Lead

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Led design, planning and commercialization of Capsule's key physical activity tracking solution "Motion" in AWS cloud with integrated Active Directory & MSSQL AlwaysOn that satisfied HIPAA requirements. Built HIPAA and security requirements into Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools to ensure conformance throughout deployment lifecycle.
• Led the DevOps team to design, deploy and integrate tool chain for continuous integration and deployment in AWS cloud. Tools: GitHub, Jenkins, TeamCity, Nexus, SonarQube Other tools: Jira, Confluence, Polarion
• Propagated adoption of cloud services for new and current business initiatives by showing cost benefit analysis and building new product PoC’s in cloud. A few recent new AWS cloud services adoption examples: Redis, CloudFront, Elasticsearch.
• Instilled cloud cost optimization discipline within engineering and operations teams and led several cost optimization efforts, including utilization of RI’s which resulted in significant AWS cost savings.
• Develop and present cost optimization/usage analysis to management on a recurring basis. Present solution overviews and cloud strategy recommendations to cross functional teams.
• Author and maintain architecture diagrams & regulatory compliance documentation for deployed solutions to meet audit requirements
• Closely aligned with cross functional engineering, security, operations and program management teams for partnering on new design, ongoing enhancements and production issues.
• Work closely with program management to develop high level and detailed projects/resource plans for implementation projects
• Instituted processes to enable DevOps and Infrastructure as Code discipline within the cloud team
• Develop and maintain relationship with vendors for new and ongoing contracts/license management
• Organize and led training/knowledge sharing sessions within cloud team and cross functional teams
• Keep abreast with new cloud technologies. Create and drive cloud/security best practices across the cloud team.

Sr Staff, IT Engineer/Solutions Architect

Confidential - San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Led and contributed to implementation of various healthcare solutions through inception/acquisition, to name a few - connected care platform “HealthyCircles”, remote patient monitoring platform “2net”.
• Played key role in planning and migration of the "2net" platform from on premise to AWS cloud that satisfied HIPAA/GDPR requirements for Personally Identifiable Information (PII) processing. Implementation consisted of multiple non-prod and prod environments deployed across various AWS accounts/VPC's/regions.
• Contributed along with cloud team to automate cloud infrastructure, application and monitoring deployment utilizing services like CloudFormation, Opsworks Chef, Lambda, and SSM.
• Designed secure and regulatory compliant bastion host solution to simplify access to multi-VPC deployments over DirectConnect and VPN's
• Partnered with engineering team on next gen microservices re-architecture of the "2net" platform decoder service utilizing docker on AWS Fargate.
• Actively participated in companywide architectural meetings/forums to present, cross pollinate knowledge and brainstorm adoption of new cloud technologies
• Authored GAMP documentation for health care regulatory and audit compliance
• Created standards and operations guide for SSL certificate management to be used across organization
• Designed, implemented and documented DR process/procedures for solutions deployed on premise/in cloud
• Maintain customer defined SLA's, provide tier3 support for production issues and manage an international consulting Tier1 support team

Cloud Architect / Devops engineer

Confidential - Woodland Hills, CA

Responsibilities:

• Designing/architecting, deploying secure and scalable AWS cloud infrastructure architectures for critical systems that deal with critical healthcare services, serving a large customer base in multiple geographically diverse regions.
• Migration of Existing Application to AWS cloud
• Developed AWS Cloud formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, EC2 instances, ELB and security groups.
• Designed and implemented end to end CI/CD pipeline including Chef, Cloud Formations, Ops works, Jenkins, SNS, Cloud Watch and R53.
• Installed and configured enterprise software build tools GIT hub, Jenkins, Team city, Nexus, Jira, Confluence, Sonarqube, Polarion, Security monkey and Bitwarden etc. in AWS using cloudformation.
• Administered software build tools Jenkins, Team city, Nexus, Jira, Confluence, Sonarqube, Polarion, Security monkey and Bitwarden etc.
• Configure Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS DB Services, EBS volumes; to set alarm for Notification or Automated actions, and to monitor logs for better understanding and operation of the application.
• Design, automate, implement and sustainment of Amazon machine images (AMI) across the AWS Cloud environment.
• Create and Configure S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data to storage classes, archive to Glacier as per defined user data retention policy.
• Design, Configure roles and groups for users and resources using AWS Identity access management (IAM). Use Amazon IAM to grant fine-grained access to AWS resources to users. Also, managed roles and permissions of users to AWS account through IAM.
• Create and manage a Docker deployment pipeline for custom application images in the cloud using Jenkins.
• Configure Nagios, Splunk monitoring tool for monitoring the server/app status, disk space issues and log parsing.
• Use Amazon Route53 to manage DNS zones and also give public DNS names to elastic load balancers IP's.
• Use Amazon RDS Multi-AZ for automatic failover and high availability at the database tier for MySQL workloads.
• Developed Python scripts for patch management of servers, also for deploying the code manually to different environments.
• Configured and championed Reference Architecture for the cloud, which teaches engineering teams design patterns related to AWS.
• Developed an auto-scaling architecture which works both in EC2 and on premise data centers. Managed hardware, software, and networking for a large scale cluster on Amazon EC2.
• Worked with analysis of logs and performing root cause analysis for various issues coming up on daily basis.
• Deployment of Cloud service including Jenkins and Nexus on Docker using Terraform.
• Involved in Linux system administration and performance tuning. Wrote SHELL SCRIPTS (bash), Python,
• Perl Scripts to automate the package installation, web server and instance configuration.

Web developer / senior web developer

Confidential - Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Developed web application using Spring MVC and Hibernate an Agile based development platform
• Developed Stored Procedures in the Oracle 9i database (RDMS)
• Developed the front end UI using JSP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS
• Involved in design and development of the application using SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) with Java Web Services / J2EE technologies
• Responsible for requirements gathering and built technical specifications from the requirements
• Developed Ant (build.xml) targets for build and deployments on Web Sphere Application Server 5.0
• Implemented Struts framework in the presentation tier for all the essential control flow, business level validations and for communicating with the business layer
• Designed Use Cases, Class Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams using Visual Paradigm to model the detail design of the application
• Involved in writing unit test plans and developing test cases using Junit
• Actively participate in architectural discussions, make recommendations and provide feedback for any new projects in pipeline
• Document issues/environments/procedures to streamline support within the team and for external teams
• Managed and monitored all installed systems for highest level of availability