SUMMARY

• 7+ Years of extensive work experience on Build Engineering & Release Management process, including Building binaries, end - to-end code configuration, & deployments of artifacts for entire life cycle model in Enterprise Applications.
• Experienced Confidential Software Development Life Cycles(SDLC) and Agile Programming Methodologies.
• Strong domain knowledge in Financial Market, Banking, Mobile and E-Commerce industry.
• Skilled enough to build deployment, Build scripts and automated solutions (using scripting languages such as Shell, Perl, JavaScript etc.)
• Experienced in using Nexus and Artifactory Repository Managers for Maven Builds.
• In-depth knowledge of computer applications and scripting like Shell, Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript and XML.
• Experienced in administering software configuration management tools like Clear Quest, Chef, Puppet, Ansible and Salt.
• Well Experienced in working on source controller tools like Subversion (SVN), CVS, GIT, IBM ClearCase and Perforce.
• Good command in working with Tracking Tools JIRA, Remedy and IBM Rational Clear Quest.
• Extensively worked on Hudson/Jenkins for continuous integration and for End-to-End automation for all Build and deployments.
• Good understanding of Operating Systems like Linux, UNIX, Windows.
• Worked with different Bug tracking tools like JIRA, Rally, Remedy, HP Quality Center, Fisheye, Crucible and IBM Clear Quest.
• Good Knowledge in bash (Shell)/Perl scripting in production Environment.
• Experienced in Querying RDBMS such as Oracle, MY SQL and SQL Server by using SQL for data integrity.
• Expertise in using build tools like MAVEN and ANT for the building of deployable Artifacts such as war & ear from Source Code using MoM - RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Performed Integration of Code Quality Analysis techniques like Checkstyles, FindBugs, Nunit, OpenCover and PMD with CI tools like Hudson/Jenkins.
• Managed environments DEV, QA, UAT and PROD for various releases and designed instance strategies in production Environment.
• Well Adverse with the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) processes, which include compiling, packaging, deploying and Application configurations.
• Expert in deploying the code through web application servers like Web Sphere/Web Logic/ Apache Tomcat/JBOSS and jetty, PCI, SOX,
• Experience in integrating Unit Tests and Code Quality Analysis Tools like JUnit, Cobertura, PMD, Findbugs,CheckStyle, SonarQube and Gerritfor code review.
• Experience in software Build tools like Apache Maven, Apache Ant to write Pom.xml and Build.xml respectively in production Environment.
• Experience in Writing the Make files for C based builds.
• Hands-on Experience of theJ2EEFramework and its components as related to Java build, test, deployment and release management initiatives.
• Experienced in handling Release Management activities and ServiceNow tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 98/XP/NT/ 2000/2003/2008, UNIX, LINUX, RHEL.

Source control tools: Subversion, Clear case, GIT and Perforce.

Build Tools: ANT, MAVEN, and MAKE, ROR, Ruby, Ansible

CI Tools: Hudson, Jenkins, AnthillPro, and Build Forge, Chef, Puppet

Repositories: Nexus, Artifactory.

Languages: C, C++, Perl scripting, Shell scripting, Python, SQL, Java/J2EE., Tibco

Tracking tools: JIRA, Remedy, Clear Quest, BugZilla., TDD

Web servers: Web logic, Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS.

Databases: Oracle, SQL SERVER, MY SQL, DB2.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Arlington Heights, IL

Senior DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Administrated build and deployment processes in the projects in production environment.
• As member of Release Engineering group, redefined processes and implemented tools for software builds, patch creation, source control, and release tracking and reporting, on UNIX platform.
• Responsible for Development, UIT, SYTEM, UAT, STAGING Builds and Releases.
• Configured, Maintained Jenkins for CI/Automation.
• Jenkins Administrator responsible for User management, Plugin Management and End-End Automation in production environment and also in TDD
• Builds and deploys J2EE application in Oracle WebLogic server 11g.
• Assist with maintaining current build systems, developed build scripts, and maintained the source control system.
• Used Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or VMware vCloud and/or Docker
• Experience with monitoring, debugging, profiling, and memory analysis in Java applications and environments.
• Involved in Continuous Integration like Jenkins or Bamboo.
• Used Low-level APIs such as the Amazon Web Services API and higher-level abstractions such as Boto, Fog, AWS SDK.
• Responsible for the migration from chef to salt, this included the evaluation of Ansible and Puppet against SaltStack.
• Build the Scripts using ANT and MAVEN build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
• Involved in containerization and deployment technologies, such as Docker, Rocket.
• Worked with different Bug tracking tools like JIRA, Rally, Remedy, HP Quality Center, Fisheye, Crucible and IBM Clear Quest.
• Experience with cloud technologies like AWS, vCloud Air, Azure.
• Experienced in Selenium and Cucumber using Java.
• Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments like production environment.
• Experience with infrastructure and system monitoring tools, Nagios, Icinga, Splunk, etc.
• Enforced automation in build and deployment procedures in Clould and virtual environment, executed code builds and deployment activities.
• Understand Mobile application development, done hand-on code-review, experience with artefactory and Crucible.In-depth knowledge of Jenkins, Maven, Hudson.
• Involved in configuration management / systems automation Confidential scale (e.g. Puppet, Ansible, etc).
• Worked with Tracking Tools JIRA, Remedy and IBM Rational Clear Quest.
• Established Chef Best practices approaches to systems deployment with tools such as vagrant, berkshelf and test-kitchen and the treatment of each Chef cookbook as a unit of software deployment, independently version controlled.
• Experience in deploying applications within a production cloud environment (AWS or similar cloud technology).
• Written Chef Recipes to automate our build/deployment process and do an overall process improvement to any manual processes.
• Written multiple cookbooks in Chef in production environment.
• Worked on designing and implementing software in a shared services model with XML, XSD, and XSLT, and JBehave.
• Deployed built artifacts to WebSphere application server using ANT and python scripts.
• Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion (SVN) Repositories.
• Managed the source codes repository of multiple development applications using Tortoise SVN.
• Created analytical matrices reports, dash boards for release services based on JIRA tickets.
• Trained offshore team members and responsible for knowledge transfer.
• Performed weekly and on-call deployments of application codes to production environments.
• Coordinated application release with developer, DBA, QA and project management teams.
• Maintains sandbox build environments, keeps track of build history and responsible for updating the build system Run book and Release notes.
• Worked in cross-platform environments like Linux, AIX and Windows.
• Documentation of detailed build configuration, Build procedures and change history for releases.

Environment: Subversion, ANT, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, Perl Scripts, Shell Scripts, XML, Tomcat, Chef, JIRAand Linux\AIX.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Sr. Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed products and applications into test and production environments
• Worked closely with application developers to devise robust deployment, operating, monitoring, reporting for the applications
• Participated in the release cycle of the product, which involves environments like Development, INT, QA and Production.
• Involved in development and configuration using Spring Framework and Spring Integrationusing GIT tools in in production environment.
• Used GIT for branching, tagging, and merging.
• Deploying Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud infrastructures (experience with AWS CloudFormation).
• Used Puppet to manage Web Applications, Config Files, Data Base, Commands, Users Mount Points and Packages.
• Experienced with Gerrit to facilitate online code reviews for projects.
• Involved in Configuring, User Management and Plugin Management for Jenkins CI Server.
• Tuned application configuration to support optimize performance per developer
• Troubleshoot applications to diagnose problems in Clould and virtual environment.
• Skilled to Write, debug, maintain scripts in Shell, Perl etc.
• Evaluated and implemented internal and third-party tools for appropriateness, ease-of- use, scalability, robustness.
• Experience implementing scalable, distributed web services in REST and SOAP
• Coordinated with operations teams to create strategies and detailed plans for deployment sequencing, timing in in production environment and TDD
• Experienced with release engineering, build or configuration management in JBoss web application environment.
• Implemented interactions with AWS (AWS SDK, AWS API, Command Line Interface, AWS Cloud Formation, and other AWS Services such as SNS, SQS, SWF, DynamoDB, S3, etc).
• Experienced in Software Development Life-Cycle, Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management practices.
• Solid understanding of UNIX environment and network technology (symlinks, NAS devices)
• Used Rundeckas the Deployment tool and BMCRemedy as the Ticketing tool.
• Solid understanding of load balancing appliances in a web environment
• Communicates with technical project leads, developers, quality assurance, and business team members

Environment: GIT, Jenkins, Rundeck, Puppet, AWS, Web Services, Perl Scripts, Shell Scripts, Remedy, JBoss, Gerrit

Confidential, Orlando FL

Sr. DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Perforce for Source code Management.
• Involved in Branching and Merging of Code.
• Experience with development and configuration using Spring Framework and Spring Integration
• Expertise building and monitoring software projects continuously with CI Tools like AnthillPro/Jenkins or other similar tools.
• Create and maintain build scripts for J2EE (Maven)applications.
• Expertise in using Maven to manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation.
• Create and maintain deployment scripts of Java/J2EE Applications to WebLogic Application Server.
• Used SVN for branching, tagging, and merging.
• Experience in programming scalable platform services and applications for public clouds such as Google Cloud, Azure and AWS.
• Experience writing implementation plans for installing software components on build agents, and working with application services team to execute the install.
• Support QA regression deployments, monthly and weekly releases of applications
• Extensive experiences with Maven build process and repository manager Nexus.
• Experienced in building software usingAmazon Web Services and AWS CloudFormation and the AWS API/SDKfor infrastructure provisioning.
• Working knowledge of Windows batch scripting, LINUX Shell scripting, Perl and MavenPom Scripting.
• Integrating the code quality analysis tools like Cobertura, Find Bugs, JUnit, PMD, and Check style into the projects.
• Experience with monitoring, debugging, profiling, and memory analysis in Java applications and environments.
• Experience implementing scalable, distributed web services in REST and SOAP
• Worked with JIRA for Issue Tracking and monitoring in Clould and virtual environment.
• Worked closely with the Development Team in the design phase and developed use case diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Worked with the Architects on SDLC process being the owner of post development environments
• Participate in release coordination and communication to stakeholders.

Environment: Perforce, AnthillPro/Jenkins, Maven, Perl Scripts, Shell Scripts, XML, Web Logic, JIRA.

Confidential, Houston TX

Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed infrastructure for Clear Case UCM and Base ClearCase.
• Installing, configuring, troubleshooting and modifying software.
• Responsibilities also included, performing dailybuildsfor managing in the System test and UAT environments.
• Worked on designing and implementing software in a shared services model with XML, XSD, and XSLT, and JBehave.
• Experience implementing scalable, distributed web services in REST and SOAP
• Responsible for implementing and making sure CMMI for our team.
• Written hooks for designing ClearQuest schema.
• Responsible for maintainingbuildscripts and checkingbuildstatus.
• Documentedrelease,buildsand source control processes and plans.
• Interact with the System AdministrationEngineersin issues relating to Hardware and Networking.
• Coordinating different tasks with different teams, e.g. for creating usage models for different project, coordinating code movement from different projects in ClearCase.
• Involved in the migration of code from CVS to Clearcase.
• Developed and documented all the processes for the migration.
• Used ANT for building the applications and developing the build scripts.
• Change and Configuration Management analysis, design, developing, implementation, and Administration of client server and web based applications.
• Involved in installation, configuration and maintenance of Rational ClearCase on Windows and Unix environments.
• Experience with monitoring, debugging, profiling, and memory analysis in Java applications and environments.
• Responsible for installing ClearCase and ClearQuest on clients machines
• Worked extensively on Branch Management.
• Coordinated training classes for different Rational Tools Trainer (ClearCase/ClearQuest).
• Build/Releaseexperience using Chef.
• Established and implemented Change Control standards for different tasks.
• Provided support for other software development environment for Clearcase and Clearquest.
• Used IBM Build Forge to perform automated Builds and Deployments.
• Deployed applications into web application servers like Web Sphere.
• Defined and upgraded the current Configuration Management infrastructure to a new and robust architecture.

Environment: Unix, Windows, CVS, Rational Clear Case, IBM Build Forge, Clear Quest, ANT/MAVEN, Test Manager, Web Sphere.

Confidential

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Identified the Business Requirements of the project.
• Preparing the Design document by reviewing the Solution Requirement Specifications.
• Working on the Change requests and involved in Construction phase.
• Developed and Worked in EA Frame Work.
• Writing Test Cases from Function Specifications.
• Handling Status Calls to explain the progress of defects.
• Providing reports and performing Cleanups requested by client.
• Java coding to fix the defects and also performing unit and integrated testing.
• Capable of Creating new database instances & managing table Spaces, users & roles.
• Conversant in XML related technologies.
• Experience in developing dynamic web based user interfaces using HTML and Java Script.

Environment: Java, HTML, Java Script, XML, SQL, Windows