SUMMARY

• Over 7 Years of experience in IT industry comprising of Development, Systems Administration and Software Configuration Management (SCM).
• Extensive experience includes SCM, Build/Release Management, and Change/Incident Management.
• Experience in Working with Public Cloud Platform like Amazon Web Services for compute EC2 and Storage S3.
• Experienced working in various SDLC like Agile Scrum and Kanban.
• Implemented various branching strategies and SCM policies to Development Teams.
• Extensively worked with Version Control Systems like GIT, SVN (Subversion) and CVS.
• Worked with build tools Ant and Maven for writing build.xmls and pom.xmls respectively.
• Experience in integrating Unit Tests and Code Quality Analysis Tools like JUnit, Cobertura, PMD, findbugs and checkstyle.
• Installed and administered Nexus Artifact Manager for Maven Builds.
• Installed, configured and administered CI tools AnthillPro, Hudson and Jenkins for automated builds.
• Experience writing Shell and Perl scripts to automate tasks and deployments.
• Experience using RPMs to effectively package the applications for product deployments
• Experience in Configuring and deploying to Application servers Tomcat, Weblogic and Websphere .
• Experience with Oracle and MS SQL Server Databases.
• Managed environments DEV, SIT, QA, UAT and PROD for various releases and designed instance strategies
• Ability to keep calm under immense pressure and work effectively.
• 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, AIX, RHEL, WINDOWS NT/2000/2003/XP/2008/7, HP - UX

Version Control Tools: CVS, SVN, GIT, Accurev

Languages: C, JAVA, XML, SHELL, PERL, Python, Powershell

Databases: My SQL, MS Access, Oracle 9i/10g

Application Servers: Weblogic, Websphere, Tomcat

Build Tools: ANT, MAVEN, HUDSON/JENKINS, ANTHILL PRO, BUILD FORGE, NEXUS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created EC2, S3 buckets and RDS instances in AWS public cloud environment to build non prod environments.
• Worked in Agile Scrum Project management Process.
• Managed the Subversion branching strategy for few applications by creating Release branches, Development branches thus ensuring the integrity of Trunk.
• Used MAVEN to automate the build process.
• Installed and Configured Nexus to manage the artifacts in different Repositories.
• Integrated the Code Quality tools Cobertura, PMD, Find Bugs and Checkstyle to Maven Projects.
• Installed, Configured and automated the Jenkins Build jobs for Continuous Integration.
• Setup On-commit triggered build and scheduled builds for various projects.
• 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.
• Managed and performed the environment related configuration changes as a part of deployment.
• Coordinated application releases with Development, DBA, QA and Project Management teams.
• Troubleshoot the automation of installing and configuring Java applications in the testing and production environments.
• Served as a partial administrator for UNIX machines.
• 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.
• Documented the deployment process (Migration Doc) of code to production.
• Used JIRA as Issue Tracking Tool.

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the release cycle of the product which involves environments like Development, QA and UAT.
• Wrote build.xml for applications using Ant.
• Analyzing ANT Projects for Converting ANT Build Projects to Maven Build Projects.
• Developing Maven Build Scripts based on the requirements.
• Managed Maven project dependencies by creating parent-child relationships between projects
• Developed and implemented Software Configuration Management strategies for various applications according to the agile process.
• Administered and maintained Subversion version control system adhering to the branching policies.
• Jenkins is used as a continuous integration tool for build and deployment of JAVA code.
• Installed and Administered Jenkins CI for ANT and Maven Builds.
• Experience in User Management and Plug-in Management for Jenkins.
• Used Nexus as Artifact Repository Manager.
• Coordinated Release effort amongst various teams (Integration, QA, Testing, and Business Analysis) in geographically separated environment.
• Involved in Creating and Configuring different Repositories in Nexus.
• Worked in agile modeled software development life cycle.
• Participated in weekly release meetings with Technology, stakeholders to identify and mitigate potential risks associated with the monthly releases.
• Developed build scripts using ANT as the build tool for the creation of (WAR files) build artifacts.
• Involved in troubleshooting the automation of Installing and configuring JAVA applications in the test and pre-production environments.
• Deployed the archives like war files into the Tomcat Application Servers.
• Involved in editing the existing ANT build files in case of project requirement changes.
• Responsible for the development and maintenance of processes and associated scripts/tools for automated build, testing and deployment of the products to various developments.
• Used Remedy as deployment issue tracking tool.

Confidential, PA

Build & Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a 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.
• Assist with maintaining current build systems, developed build scripts, and maintained the source control system.
• 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 Developers, DBAs, QAs and Project Managers.
• Administered SVN as Version control for versioning code and configurations.
• Used Artifactory Repository Managers for ANT and Maven builds.
• Installed and Configured the Apache Tomcat application servers for Dev and INT Environments.
• Automated the process of deployment to Apache Tomcat application servers by developing Perl Scripts.
• Involved in periodic archiving and storage of the source code for disaster recovery.
• Developed, maintained, and distributed release notes for each scheduled release.