PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience designing, writing, and managing build systems including Administration for Financials, Healthcare and Retail. Responsible for building, deploying and releasing high quality products to end customers;
• Setting up CI / CD pipelines via Jenkins integration SVN, GIT/Bitbucket,Liquibase., Maven and Tomcat deployment steps.
• Experience as DevOps Engineer in automating, building, deploying, & releasing code from various environments.
• Experience in building and deploying Docker containers, using Docker files.
• Continuous Delivery strategy with emphasis on Infrastructure as a service.
• Automation of major infrastructure components of multi - tier sites: middleware, application configuration, deployment, cloud services API, databases, Linux OS, and the orchestration from environment provision to site QA testing through various stages of the Release life cycle.
• Worked for projects involving Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, and Continuous Integration/Delivery for various High availability and revenue generating applications.
• Experience writing chef cookbook and recipes to automate the deployment process and to integrating chef cookbooks into Jenkins jobs for a continuous delivery framework.
• Implemented Continuous Integration methodology - build on code change, deploy to test systems, run smoke, regression, and user acceptance tests -of web apps delivering Affordable Care Act insurance exchange.
• Created and Maintained pipeline Jenkins job infrastructure for 6 different applications supporting 34 developers working in 3 different time zones with nightly builds and end to end build life cycle with push of a button.
• Automated all builds using Jenkins to implement continuous integration.SCM,Build& Deployment Tasks:
• Migrated build automation to Hudson/Jenkins.
• Implemented Unit test during continuous integration builds, and automated regression testing of systems deployed to test hosts.
• Manage Subversion source-code and Artifactory build-artifact repositories. Integrated separate repositories to support geographically distributed development.
• Standardized and automated SCM tasks, such as creating tags and branches, managing access to source code repositories, controlling merges and check-ins.
• Implemented coding standards, and wrote extensive documentation on development methods and build and release processes and policies.
• Manage git repositories and git branching strategy.Release Management:
• Maintained clear communication between management, development, and QA regarding build standards, procedures, and requirements.
• Supported Several Parallel Project Releases along with Quarterly and monthly maintenance releases.
• End to end understanding of a Release life cycle, Release milestone tracking, Release calendar ownership, Game plan preparations, Change Approval process, Production Cutover Planning and Post Production Validation's.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Virtualization Platforms: Docker

Build Systems: ANT, MAVEN,Gradle

Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, Jboss

Version Control: Git, SVN, Bit bucket

Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, Windows, Z/OS

Infrastructure as Service: AWS, Predix

Configuration Management: Chef, Puppet

CI Tools: Jenkins

Web Servers: Apache, IIS

Databases: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, My SQL, DB2,IMS

Scripting Languages: Shell,Windows Power Shell,Python

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Dev Ops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed Continuous Integrated delivery (CI and CD process) using Jenkins Performed Build/Release/SCM/DevOps engineer duties.
• Implemented Nagios to monitor the applications and servers.
• Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins CI tool on Linux and Windows machines.
• Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labeling/naming conventions using Git source control.
• Automated the Backend code push to Windows SQL Server in QA and production servers.
• Configured node.js, PostgreSQL,SQL Server,Redis in the QA and Production Environments.
• Analyze and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for Git.
• Worked with all Dev, QA, systems engineering group to handoff things and automated the process.
• Deployed node.js applications to Application servers in an Agile continuous integration environment and also automated the whole process.
• Build scripts using MAVEN build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
• Responsible for bringing up the various server environments like DEV, QA and Production environments.
• Responsible for planning and scheduling the QA, Stage, Prod deployments, preparing the release schedule and communicate across different teams.
• Responsible for Branching and Merging the code as per the schedule.
• Installed and Configured Continuum jobs for automating some Build Processes.
• Solid understanding of relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL Redis and SQL Server.
• Performed SCM tasks including branching, merging permission handling.
• Building pipelines in Jenkins while also fully scripting the creation and provisioning of Jenkins.
• Scripting infrastructure and (Linux) machine provisioning from scratch using tools such as bash.
• Automating application builds using tools such as Maven,
• Versioning all system artifacts in GIT,Liquibase including infrastructure as code.
• Maintain a Live Like environment to test any production issues on the setup and push it into production.
• Installed and Configured the RabbitMQ- server in all the Linux servers.

Confidential

Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed Build/Release/SCM/Dev Ops engineer duties.
• Worked with all Dev, QA, systems engineering group to handoff things and automated the process.
• Experience in Creating Puppet modules for application deployment.
• Automating the Configuration using puppet
• Experience in Creating Chef Server and Chef Client.
• Experience in Writing Chef Recipes and Chef Cookbooks.
• Performed code line GIT pushes (releases) to production and customer servers and Developed and improved GIT push scripts.
• Managed up to 4 concurrent release cycles varying in frequency from twice weekly to once per 4 months for major releases.
• Performed SCM tasks including branching, merging, clobber, server recovery, permission handling.
• Implemented, developed and supported build machine setup, fully automated deployment and management infrastructure of build farm that supports over 9 different 6 stack environment applications with more than 200 virtual and physical servers.
• Building pipelines in Jenkins while also fully scripting the creation and provisioning of Jenkins.
• Scripting infrastructure and (Linux) machine provisioning from scratch using tools such as bash and the Ruby AWS-SDK.
• Automating application builds using tools such as Maven, ANT
• Integrating static analysis and automated testing tools into automated application builds such as Check style, PMD, Find Bugs, Simian, Food Critic, Cucumber, JUnit, Db Unit, R Spec, and Selenium. Testing the newly developed infrastructure with tools like Cucumber and server spec.
• Versioning all system artifacts in GIT including infrastructure as code.
• Setup a Continuous Integration and Build Automation system using Maven, Continuum and Archiva Web logic server Administration, JMS Queue, JMS Topic, Data Source, JDBC JVM Heap Configuration, Server/Web Container Thread pool settings.
• Web logic WLST scripting for automated deployments.
• Triggered functional tests automatically post deployment, Verifies features/functionality of the website, certifies builds and validates deployments.
• Maintain a Live Like environment to test any production issues on the setup and push it into production.
• Maintain 260 servers and 15 repositories for releases and check performance to reduce the time taken in each activity.
• Configure and maintain stress server in different geographical location and provide setup in every release to perform stress testing.
• Migrated projects from SVN to Git.

Confidential

Build/Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Chef Server and Chef Client.
• Create Chef Recipes and Chef Cookbooks.
• Re-Engineered Release and Change process to be embedded into SCM tool, thus achieving natural workflow of a Change Request with 100% adherence to IT Governance.
• Was part of Incident process design team for Red-Alert requests for systems with heavy traffic.
• Experience in Creating Puppet modules for application deployment.
• Automating the Configuration using puppet
• Supervised 20+ high-complexity/maintenance project releases and steering towards success.
• Developed scripts for automation of build & deployments reducing the production down time by 60%.
• Supported day to day build and deployment activities for a team of 20 developers
• Create utility, deployment scripts using shell and Perl.
• Version Control Management - Maintaining multiple parallel development and release activities standardize the developer’s workstation.
• Integrated the build process into the developer's workstation making them all identical. Hence the builds too are absolutely reproducible.
• Assist the developers in performance tuning of the application.
• Apache Web server Configuration and plug in-cfg generation.
• Developer Efficiency Indexing using Sonar. Generate various reports/metrics like PMD, CPD, check style, covertures etc. These reports were generated on daily builds run on Hudson/Nexus and published on Sonar site.

Confidential

Sr Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Executing DBDGEN, PSBGEN and ACBGEN.
• Creating/Alter or DropDatabase objects, Tablespaces, Tables, Views, Indexes etc.
• Database monitoring which includes total space usage, free space availability and Volume space availability.
• As part of Database maintenance and providing support to the application team requests.
• Database Implementation and Database Reorganizations, Recovery, Restoration, Image copy, Log file recovery and Runstats for IMS & DB2.
• Unloading Production data and Loading Test environments for the Application team requirements.
• Migrating Non HALDB’s to HAL DB’s.
• HALDB Re-partition.
• Extensive usage of BMC/IBM tools and utilities for IMS & DB2 Database Administration.
• Provide Performance Monitoring and Tuning.
• Creation of new database environment. Providing access privileges to the database users.
• 24x7 on call support ofProduction databases.
• Scheduling Jobs.
• Perform problem determination and resolution for supported application databases andmaintenance utilities.
• Performing change management activities using standard change processes in support of application database related changes.
• Monitor the Databases growth for X-MAS and New year.(Preparing the space expansion before Xmas )
• Perform structure changes to objects as per the requirements.

Confidential

Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Executing DBDGEN, PSBGEN and ACBGEN.
• Creating/Alter or DropDatabase objects, Tablespaces, Tables, Views, Indexes etc.
• Database monitoring which includes total space usage, free space availability and Volume space availability.
• As part of Database maintenance and providing support to the application team requests.
• Database Implementation and Database Reorganizations, Recovery, Restoration, Image copy, Log file recovery and Runstats for IMS & DB2.
• Unloading Production data and Loading Test environments for the Application team requirements.
• Migrating Non HALDB’s to HAL DB’s.
• HALDB Re-partition.
• Extensive usage of BMC/IBM tools and utilities for IMS & DB2 Database Administration.
• Provide Performance Monitoring and Tuning.
• Creation of new database environment. Providing access privileges to the database users.
• 24x7 on call support ofProduction databases.
• Scheduling Jobs.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• I was involved in the following activities.
• Problem Solving - Solving production issues and user related queries or problems.
• Analysis of existing code to resolve the issues.
• Coding and Code Reviews.
• Test Planning, Test Documentation and Testing - Unit and Independent
• Scheduling Jobs.
• Involved in Technical BRD and TDD preparation discussions.
• Involved in meetings with onsite POC.