SUMMARY:

• Lead Site Reliability Engineer with 11+ years of extensive experience.
• Highly skilled, hands - on dev ops engineer with demonstrable success maintaining highly-available, web scale services.
• Capable of leading, contributing (architecture, design, code reviews, coding), and managing technical discussions.
• Strong coding skills in Python, with smatterings of shell script.
• Knowledge data structures, relational and non-relational databases, networking, Linux internals, filesystems, web architecture, and related topics
• Capability to automate various manual processes using scripting and build tools.
• Experience deploying and managing large scale distributed Linux environments.
• Comfortable with large scale production systems and technologies, for example load balancing, DR testing/setup, monitoring, distributed systems, and/or configuration management.
• Experience with Amazon Cloud Services (AWS), Appdynamics, caching technologies like Memcached and Gemfire, Apache, Wily
• Focused on application availability, application performance and minimized downtime/failure.
• Led multiple cross-functional project implementations and solutions deployments for mission-critical systems.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Portland, OR

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of one or more of our Internet-facing services
• Architect the security infrastructure for internet facing applications using Datapower/F5, DMZ zone configuration.
• Assist in the roll-out and deployment of new product features and installations to facilitate our rapid iteration and constant growth for various products.
• Middleware, capacity planning, installation, administration, work load management across various tiers, mentoring, trouble shooting, production support, performance tuning, failover mechanisms, high availability and engineering security solutions.
• Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale UNIX environment.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability automation" in mind.
• Coding and scripting in Python to automate tasks and consume REST services
• Implementing synthetic monitoring for transactions using AppDynamics
• Setting up Datapower as both security and integration device. Initialize, configure network for the device using LACP, setup RBM, deployment automation and monitoring using Datapower operations Dashboard.
• Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment.
• Participate in a 24x7 rotation for second-tier escalations.
• Experience with automation, Continuous Integration, deployment and operations concepts

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 10 engineers who were responsible for multi million dollars revenue generating backend processing platform running multi-tier J2EE based applications in clustered environment using various open source and proprietary products.
• Lead/implement Proof of concepts based on JBoss EAP, Redhat Fuse ESB, Liferay portal and other middleware platforms by implementing/designing and execution. All implementations would have capacity planning, installation, security planning, administration, performance tuning, failover mechanisms, high availability and monitoring in place.
• Websphere (application sever, mq, IIS) middleware management and migration from Websphere 7 to 8.5.Infrastructure
• Setup websphere application server image for Amazon AWS EC2 deployment (cloud computing)
• Performed regular maintenance, fix pack upgrades for all middleware products.
• Performed 24/7 on-call support on rotation & mentored new-comers during team expansion.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Senior Server Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Part of server engineering team which was responsible for engineering and maintenance of Confidential ’ web and mobile platforms. Installation, creating deploy frameworks, monitoring and automation were the primary responsibilities Created and installed rpms, configured Hudson jobs for deployments.
• Migrated and upgraded J2EE applications and application server platform to achieve Data Center migration.
• Experience in using tools such as Git, and PVCS (also version control).
• Automate software builds with one click using Hudson, Maven, and Ant for build management
• Developed various tools/web-apps to automate monitoring, metrics collection, visualization of various aspects of complex infrastructure using python and bash.
• Performed 24/7 on-call support on rotation.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, administration, and support of infrastructure to facilitate hosting of ecommerce and non-ecommerce business critical web applications.
• Built various web based systems ranging from 20 nodes to 60 nodes cells having numerous clusters thereby learning from challenges that arises from scaling.

Confidential

Citibank, Systems Engineer, Server

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team of 6 Application Admins responsible for operations of Confidential credit card application.
• Wrote iRules, Configured Virtual Servers, Pools, VIPs and Monitoring on F5 BigIP