SUMMARY

• Around 7 Years of experience in IT industry comprising of Development, Systems administration and Software Configuration Management (SCM).
• Primary duties include Build and Deployment of the java applications onto different environments like Dev, QA, UAT and Production.
• Worked on Build and Release management methodologies and Software procedures in all aspects of SDLC.
• Perform with project managers, development teams and system administrators for development, evaluation, test and launch phases of software development life cycle.
• Configure and release software application updates to QA along with Production environments.
• Demonstrated abilities to manage a project through its complete lifecycle viz. Initiation, Planning and Design, Execution, monitoring and controlling through Closing.
• Knowledge and experience in Release/Change Management, Project Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Requirements, writing technical specifications, Complete Software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Well versed in muitiple styles of Release and change management processes.
• Monitor and report success/failure of changes.
• Coordination with Configuration Management to ensure that all applicable environment issues are resolved in advance of production implementation.
• Develop and manage the roll out schedules, implementation plans and activities/tasks for and across all functional groups involved in the release and work across functional groups involved in the release.
• Worked on Gerrit for the code review.
• Work with cross - functional team to support each release project plan and post release/change review.
• Create and maintain Release Notes.
• Collect and provide ongoing project feedback to change management organization.
• Extensively worked with Version Control Systems and SCM Tools like Harvest, SVN (Subversion) and CVS & GIT.
• Knowledge of IBM RTC. knowledge of Teamcity.
• Basic Knowledge of mobile application.
• Experience with build tools Make, Ant and Maven for writing build.xmls and pom.xml’s respectively.
• Experience in using Jira, Clear quest as tracking tool.
• Experience in integrating Unit Tests and Code Quality Analysis Tools like JUnit, Cobertura, Clover, PMD, find bugs and check style.
• Knowledge of Icinga, nagios as monitoring tools to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.
• Experience in Configuring and Administering Nexus Repository Manager for Maven builds.
• Experience in using CI tools Hudson, Build Forge and Jenkins for automated builds.
• Knowledge of puppet as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage change.
• Experience writing Shell and Perl scripts to automate the deployments.
• Experience using RPMs to effectively package the applications for product deployments
• Experience in Configuring and deploying to Application servers Tomcat.
• Hands on experience on VMware. Build, configure and deploy VMs and template.
• Experience is using Web logic and Web sphere web servers for deployments.
• Experience with DB2, Oracle and MS SQL Server DB Tasks (DML, user management etc)
• Managed environments DEV, SIT, QA, UAT and PROD for various releases and designed instance strategies
• Good knowledge on ITIL Process and have worked on coordinating releases across the projects.
• Consulted and recommended client in Build and Release management Implementation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, WINDOWS NT/2000/2003/XP/vista/7, HP-UX

Version Control Tools: CVS, SVN, Harvest, GIT

Languages: C, JAVA, XML, SHELL, PERL

Databases: My SQL, Oracle 9i/10g, DB2

Application Servers: Web logic, Web sphere, Tomcat

Build Tools: ANT, MAVEN

CI Tools: HUDSON/JENKINS, BUILD FORGE

Tracking tools: Jira, Clear quest

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr Build & Release engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work with technology teams to build, automate and release software for multiple projects.
• Develop build plans, build scripts and automate for multiple releases.
• Develop and maintain application tools using Java that build, deploy, automate and streamline code management and product delivery process.
• Drive the configuration management plans for the different projects and maximize outcomes and results.
• Provide support and flexibility for any required changes to build/release/version control processes.
• Work closely with development teams to analyze, debug and resolve any build issues.
• Participate in product development planning meetings.
• Mange the pipeline for CI/CD.
• Participate in key open source projects in the open source community.
• Defined and Implemented CM and Release Management Processes, Policies and Procedures
• Analyze and resolve compilation and deployment errors related to code development, branching, merging and building of source code.
• Created and Maintained GIT repositories, branches and tags.
• Used Gerrit as the code reviewer.
• Worked on ECLIPSE.
• Acted as an Integrator for performing merge, rebase and baseline operations.
• Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions using GIT source control.
• Developed build scripts using Maven, Shell to Setup development, INT and QA environments.
• Troubleshoot the automation of Installing and configuring JAVA applications in all the pre-production environments.
• Used Maven as Build Tool for JAVA related application.
• Installed and configured Jenkins Master and Slaves to establish CI Environments.
• Created new jobs in Jenkins to run the build automatically.
• Implement, maintain and support reliable, timely and reproducible builds for project teams
• Maintained build related scripts developed in Maven and shell.
• Researched and implemented code coverage for Maven Projects.
• Work with development, testing, deployment, systems/infrastructure and project teams to ensure continuous operation of build and test systems.
• Deployed artifacts on to Nexus repositories.
• Have a good experience in all stages of Build lifecycle - from analysis, development, implementation and support of builds, unit testing and deployments
• Used Findbug as the bug tracking tool.

Environment: s: SCM, Agile CICD, JAVA, MAVEN, ANT, GIT,GERRIT, ECLIPSE, JENKINS, SHELL Scripts, FINDBUG, OVSDB.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided CM and Build support for more than 50 different applications, built and deployed to the Pre-production environments
• Defined and Implemented CM and Release Management Processes, Policies and Procedures
• Analyze and resolve compilation and deployment errors related to code development, branching, merging, building of source code
• Created and Maintained Subversion repositories, branches and tags
• Acted as an Integrator for performing merge, rebase and baseline operations
• Enforced development policies using Subversion hooks
• Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions using Subversion source control
• Developed build scripts using Maven, Shell to Setup development, INT and QA environments.
• Troubleshoot the automation of Installing and configuring JAVA applications in all the pre-production environments
• Used Maven as Build Tool for JAVA related application
• Performed daily health checks for all Dev environments
• Installed and configured Jenkins Master and Slaves to establish CI Environments.
• Implement, maintain and support reliable, timely and reproducible builds for project teams
• Maintained build related scripts developed in Maven and shell.
• Researched and implemented code coverage for Maven Projects
• Work with development, testing, deployment, systems/infrastructure and project teams to ensure continuous operation of build and test systems
• Deployed code on to Web Logic servers for Development, INT and QA environments using WLST scripts
• Worked on the Oracle databases in the backend to execute the DML’s
• Have a good experience in all stages of Build lifecycle - from analysis, development, implementation and support of builds, unit testing and deployments
• Installed and Configured the Apache Tomcat application servers for Dev and Integration Test
• Used JIRA tool to track all the defects and changes released to all environments.

Environment: s: SCM, Agile CICD, JAVA, MAVEN, ANT, SVN, WEB LOGIC, JENKINS, SHELL Scripts, JIRA, Oracle

Confidential, Oaks, PA

Sr. Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the release cycle of the product which involved environments like Development, SIT, QA, UAT and Production.
• Responsible for the building and deploying the artifacts into DEV, SIT and QA Environments
• Used Subversion as version Control for maintaining the versions.
• Created GIT configuration record for builds using derived objects generated during build audit process.
• Perform biweekly build cycle and testing processes.
• Used MAVEN to automate the build process.
• Integrated the Code Quality tools Cobertura, PMD, Find bugs and Check style to Maven Projects.
• Installed and Configured Nexus to manage the artifacts in different Repositories.
• Configured and automated the Jenkins Build jobs for Continuous Integration.
• Used Apache Tomcat as application server for deploying the artifacts.
• Developed UNIX and Perl Scripts for the purpose of manual deployment of the code to the different environments and E-mail the team when the build is completed.
• Managed and performed the environment related configuration changes as a part of deployment.
• Coordinated application releases with Development, DBA, QA and Project Management teams.
• Coordinated Release effort amongst various teams (Integration, QA, Testing, and Business Analysis) in geographically separated environment.
• Served as a partial administrator for UNIX machines for Dev Environments.
• Created deployment request tickets in Remedy for the deploying the code to Production.
• Attended the Minor/Major Event change control meetings to get necessary approvals for the deployment request.
• Used Perl/Shell to automate build and deployment Process.
• Executed the DB Scripts (DML’s) which have dependencies on the code on Oracle DB.
• Documented the deployment process (Migration Doc) of code to production.
• Used JIRA as Issue Tracking Tool.

ENVIRONMENT: S: GIT, Maven, Nexus, Tomcat, UNIX & Perl scripts, Jira, Shell scripts, Jenkins, Cobertura, PMD, Remedy, Find bugs, check style.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Build and Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in weekly release meetings with technology stakeholders to identify and mitigate potential risks associated with the releases.
• Developed and maintained UNIX/Perl/Ant scripts for build and release tasks.
• Involved in creating new elements in VOB’s.
• Modified ANT scripts to build the JAR, Class, WAR and EAR files from VOB’s.
• Developed utilities for developers to check the checkouts, elements modified based on project and branch.
• Created Subversion configuration record for builds using derived objects generated during build audit process.
• Provided end-user training for all Subversion (SVN) users to effectively use the tool.
• Worked on Creating and deleting dynamic views for developers as requested by user.
• Proposed branching strategies and implemented it.
• Performing clean builds according to the schedule published for a given releases.
• Installed Cruise Control and performed troubleshooting during installation.
• Worked with Cruise Control for automated build and release.
• Verified if the methods used to create and recreate software builds are consistent and repeatable.
• Involved in Research of the project application architecture to support/resolve build, compile, and test issues/problems.
• Releasing code to testing regions or staging areas according to the schedule published.

Environment: s: Subversion, ANT, Perl, Shell scripts, Cruise control

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Build & Release Admin

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Served as interim group leader.
• Subject Matter Expert with Software Build and Release Management methodologies, hands-on experience creating and managing the various development and build platforms, and deployment strategies.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and template.
• Involved in Installing, Configuring and Maintenance of Build Forge Automation Tool.
• Created different Environments, Libraries and Projects in Build Forge Tool.
• Build the source code using ANT build tool and deploys the applications into Web Sphere application servers.
• Assist with maintaining current build systems, developed build scripts, and maintained the source control system
• Managed the source codes repository of multiple development applications using CVS and SVN version control tools
• Involved in Migrating the source code from CVS to SVN Repositories.
• Have created the ANT build scripts for different projects.
• Created analytical matrices reports for release services based on Remedy tickets
• Trained offshore team members and responsible for knowledge transfer
• Performed weekly and on-call deployments of application codes to production environments
• Participated in the Change Control Board Meeting to analyze the risk and plan for the successful Releases.
• Coordinated application releases with Development, DBA, QA and Project Management teams

Environment: s: UNIX, ANT, Web sphere, CVS, Build forge, SVN, Remedy

Confidential

Configuration/Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Primary duties include Build and Deployment of the java applications onto different environments Dev, QA and UAT.
• Involved in Installing Hudson on a Linux machine.
• Generated Ant, Make, Perl & UNIX scripts for build activities in Dev, QA, Staging and Production environments.
• Merged release branches to the trunk after the production release and resolved the conflicts rose if any during the merge in Harvest.
• Managed Users and Groups in Harvest and involved in troubleshooting client spec issues and user issues.
• Automated the deployment and server bounce process is by creating the scripts using Shell scripts and WLST scripts.
• Build artifacts (WAR’s and EAR’s) are deployed into a Web logic app server by integrating the WLST scripts to Shell Scripts
• Maintained configuration files for each application for build purpose and installed on different environments.
• Directed the Release Management Calls to synchronize with the Developers, Testers and DBA teams for successful Release.
• Presented reports to the Project manager about the progress and issues tracking key project Milestones, plans and resources.

Environment: s: ANT, Make, Perl scripts, Hudson, Harvest, Web logic

Confidential

System/ Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Systems / Network Administrator configurated and maintained Solaris 2.5 servers.
• Used the LVM extensively; Created/Modified/Deleted Volume Groups, Logical Volumes and File systems; Added/Removed physical disks; Mirrored Volume Groups and Logical Volumes.
• Setup of print queues and definition printing and plotting devices.
• Setup NIS in a multi-platform UNIX environment.
• Setup NFS between IBM, SUN, HP and SGI workstations and servers.
• Setup NFS between IBM RS/6000 server and NT server.
• Setup NIM and install clients.
• Configured TCP/IP for servers and workstations and setup of complete network.
• Wrote several korn shell scripts û perform background FTP, distribution of data to other servers, backup operations and management of large volumes of CAD data.
• Setup Jumpstart server for auto installations of servers.
• Involved in user, package and patch management and administration.
• Support for all the internal Windows nodes
• Installation and maintenance of the Internal DNS server.
• Firewall configuration for packet filtering firewall.
• Network administration and Network monitoring Configuring NFS, NIS.
• Development shell scripts using Perl, awk for automation of Systems administrative tasks.
• Implemented RAID techniques (RAID 0+1, RAID 5) by using VERITAS Volume Manager and Online Disk Suite (ODS).
• Configured the printers with the use of admin tool and command level.
• Implemented Crontabs, Shell Scripts for automatic back -up.

Environment: s: Solaris, UNIX, Windows, Perl scripts, Crontabs, Shell scripts, RAID 5, RAID 0+1