SUMMARY

• About 15 years of IT experience in virtualization, network infrastructure, automation, network security, cryptography, firewall installation and management, data - externalization, micro-services, software systems architecture, coaching CI/CD and development of web technologies within Aviation, Retali, Insurance, Financial and Legal sectors.
• Entrepreneurial & Infrastructure DevOps mindset with various technical and soft skills.
• Automating infrastructure development with Chef/Ansible/Salt/Cobbler/Bash.
• AWS, Openstack, Kubernetes - Administration, operations and effective usage.
• Monitoring clusters/cloud using Grafana, Sensu, Zabbix, Splunk.
• Docker/S2I, Kubernetes, Openshift - Streamlining CI - with proven strategies to reduce development time in manual tasks, increasing ROI.
• Auto-remediation of level 1,2 pager alerts using various AI techniques.
• Proven CI/CD techniques using auto-scaling and smart resources.
• Developing Fault-Tolerant architecture with cost-effective DR strategies.
• Linux System Administration, Cryptography, System patching, Virtualization Gold-Images with focus in Automation.
• Application/System Administration, Performance tuning of Atlassian Suite. Plus Artifactory, Jenkins, Apache, Tomcat, Sensu.
• Coach individuals, teams, including class-room style setting on various technologies.
• Ability to lead challenging (technical/non-technical) tasks till completion.
• Focused learner. I buy books & invest in new technologies. Avid networker.
• High expertise in the following:
• Developing and administering small-to-large Openstack Clouds.
• Networking: Tunneling, VPC, VLAN, ASA, IPTables, Firewall, Packets.
• Creating Overlay/Underlay networks, Gateways, Routers using VMWare NSX
• Automating system vulnerabilities detection & system patching using SaaS.
• Data Streaming PaaS solutions with Cassandra, Kraken, Kafka, Jenkins.
• Ability to create self-empowerment tutorials and documentations.
• Ability to lead/coach/mentor engineers at different levels.
• Highly scalable Micro-services & API development using Kafka, Confluent, Cassandra and Kubernetes
• Ability to troubleshoot CPU/Memory/Disk-IO issues and bottlenecks within any application or infrastructure.
• Recently gained mid-expertise on the following:VTEP via NSX (Overlay Networking)
• Microsoft Azure. AKS/ACS, Puppet
• Apache Mesosphere, Kraken, ECS (Amazon Container Service)
• SaaS - System patching & Vulnerability detection

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming: Ruby/Rails, Python, Bash, Java, C/C++, Perl, PHP, CGI, VB, OpenGL, Object-C, JQuery, Node.js

Virtualization: KVM, Qemu, Xen, VMWare, AWS, Openstack, Kubernetes, Openshift, DC-OS Mesosphere, MS Azure, BigData Hadoop

AWS: VPC, EC2, ELB, Route53, Lambda, CloudFormation, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudFront, S3, ECS

Persistence: Mysql, Oracle, Cassandra, Kafka, Kraken, MongoDB, NoSQL

Automation Tools: Chef, Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Bash, Lambda, Crowbar, Cobbler, Kickstart8+

Applications: Apache, HA-Proxy, Ngnix, JBoss, Tomcat, All Atlassian Suite, IntelliJ, SQLDeveloper

Monitoring: Splunk, Grafana, Sensu, Zabbix, Nagios

Patterns: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, SOA, HA, DR, Blue-Green

Operating Sys: MacOSx, Ubuntu, Centos, Rehl, Fedora, Windows

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, TDD, BDD, XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richfield, MN

Cloud/DevOps Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained BBY multiple internal clouds using Openstack, Ceph, VMWare. Architected various VPCs, VLANs and L3 networks using NSX.
• Linux administration of over 100 servers in multiple clouds running various applications, which are vital for BBY Development teams.
• Developed Object-Storage solution using Ceph/Swift for BBY (Like AWS S3)
• Developed BigData Hadoop platform for Enterprise team using Openstack and provided operations support 24/365
• Introduced Kubernetes via Openshift and Dockerization to DotCom teams and provided hands down coaching. Offered group training classes on demand.
• Developed Jenkins auto-scaling solution using hybrid Kubernetes cluster for DotCom and BBY-Enterprise groups
• Developed many Openshift/Kubernetes templates for various applications like Jenkins, Kafka, Cassandra, Memcache and Grafana.
• Developed Fault-Tolerant with Disaster Recovery architecture for various Atlassian applications in AWS using VPC, Route53, Lambda, Chef, Ansible and Salt.
• Performed analysis on AWS applications to reduce cost without losing efficiency
• Provided Operations support with on-call pagerdutyfor 100+ servers, 20+ cloud apps, Hadoop cluster
• Created PaaS for various services: Jenkins, Cassandra, MongoDB, Grafana, Kafka
• Assisted Enterprise teams with developing CI/CD solution using Microsoft Azure, ACS, AKS (Azure Container Service)
• Created self-service style documentation, tutorials thus enabling Dot-Com teams for self-empowerment.

Environment: Linux, Ubuntu/Centos/Rehl, Python, Ruby2, RVM, Openstack, NSX, Kitchen, Berkshelf, Ceph, Swift, Ansible, Salt, Chef, AWS (VPC, EC2, ELB, Route53, Lambda, CloudFormation, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudFront, S3, ECS), Azure (ACS, AKS), PaaS (Jenkins, DNS, ObjectStorage, Cassandra, MongoDB), Atlassian, Java8, OSx, MySQL, Monitoring (Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix, Sensu, Logster, Splunk)

Confidential, Richfield, MN

Lead Automation Engineer 

Responsibilities:

• Developed FTA (Functional Test Automation) suite for Confidential .com projects using Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Cucumber, Selenium and Jenkins.
• Brought down testing of DotCom from 6 months to 2 hours.
• Created PaaS - Jenkins as a Service (JaaS) – Service for 50+ DotCom teams.
• Developed hundreds of Chef cookbooks to automate BBY cloud farm using Openstack/Ceph
• Automated Chef cookbooks using CI, Kitchen, Berkshelf
• Linux Administration of over 30 servers in multiple clouds running various applications, which are vital for BBY Development teams.
• Provided automation and scaling for various Atlassian applications in AWS
• Hands down caching and helping Dotcom teams with Jenkins/CI running for 5000+ jobs.
• Provided networking, firewall and patching of golden images across various clusters.
• Provided Operations support with on-call pager-duty 365 days.
• Coach various DotCom teams on creating effective CI/CD solutions.

Environment: Linux, Ubuntu/Centos/Rehl, Cucumber, Selenium, Python, Ruby2, Openstack, Ceph, Chef, S3, AWS (VPC, EC2, ELB, CloudFormation, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudFront, S3, ECS), Atlassian, Docker, Java7, OSx, Centos, Ubuntu, Rehl

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Software Developer & Sys Admin 

Responsibilities:

• Sys admin for various services. Developed automation scripts in Python, Ruby.
• Created interfaces for the components from Trinidad and ADF APIs.
• Added XML support for the components so it can transform forms into XML.
• Created persistence capability for the components and support for Facelets.
• Followed Agile/SCRUM & BDD methodology during development.
• Used Selenium/Jbehave for Test Automation of modules.
• Used Subversion for the content management.

Environment: Java1.6, JSF2, ADF 11g, Facelets, XML, Subversion, Oracle 10g, Maven, JDeveloper 11g, WindowsXP/Linux/Ubuntu/Centos