SUMMARY:

• Around 3years of IT Industry experience with Configuration Management, Build, Release, Management, IBM WebSphere Administration and J2EE Developer on UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Designed and implemented configuration management (SCM) and change management (CM) solution using Subversion (SVN), TFS and GIT.
• Mastery of build technologies like Jenkins, Maven and Gradle Integration and automation of source control applications like Subversion, Git, Artifactory.
• Set up CI (Continuous Integration) for major releases in Jenkins.
• Good Experience with AWS Cloud resources EC2, AMI, SNS, EBS, Cloud Watch, Auto Scaling, and S3 buckets
• Experience with AWS Developer tools CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline
• Implemented Infrastructure automation through Puppet, for auto provisioning, code gerrit deployments, software installation and configuration update .
• Extensive Knowledge on Artifactory upgrades, backups and LDAP integrations.
• Extensive experience in setting up Baselines, Branching, Merging, and Automation processes using Shell Scripts.
• Extensive experience in using Build Automation, Deployment tools and Continuous Integration concepts by using tools like ANT, Maven, Visual Studio and Jenkins.
• Experienced in Installation, Configuration, Deployment and Management of Enterprise applications using WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5/ 8.5 on various platforms like, Unix and Windows XP/Windows7
• Experienced in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery .
• Designed, coded, and implemented automated build scripting in Ant, Jenkins and Maven.
• Experienced in creating Enterprise Software deployment application.
• Proficient in the different types of installation packaging language.
• Experienced in creating build scripts and defects reports for both new and existing application systems.
• Experienced in translating business requirements to technical specifications or designs; coding and maintaining application programs; performing unit, integrated, and system testing, implementing and supporting systems into production.
• Used Jenkins innovatively to automate most of the build related tasks. Improved throughput and efficiency of build system by providing EO/managers rights to trigger required build.
• Good Command in Shell scripting.
• Coordinated different teams across the globe to deploy different builds to different environments on parallel development for multiple projects.
• Full understanding of SDLC and Agile Methodologies and process.
• Configured and mentored version control client like TORTOISE SVN, GIT, GERRIT for development team.
• Team player with ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux and Windows

Area of work: Build Release, Devops, Deployment/Migrations, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management

Languages: C, C++, JAVA, Servlets, HTML, XML

Version Control Software’s: Subversion, GIT, GERRIT, Bit Bucket, GitBlit and Team Foundation Server

Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins Cloubbees, ANT, Visual Studio, JIRA and Confluence.

AWS Components: CodeDeploy, EC2, S3, IAM, Cloud Watch, Build Pipeline, Code Commit, VPC, Subnets and Cloud Formation

Scripting: Shell, Python, Ruby

Database: MySQL, SQL Server 2012

Other Tools: Artifactory, Puppet, Chef, Nagios, IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5/8.5 and IBM AppScan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Build/Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential TX Primary responsibilities to admin all the CI and CD build pipeline.
• Built and Deployment of the Java applications onto different environments like Dev, QA, UAT and Prod.
• Responsible to Investigate the root cause of the build failure and notify DE’s with logs.
• Responsible to schedule the nightly builds when needed or asked by branch manager for the latest check - ins.
• Responsible to create new Jenkins jobs, folders, slaves and add remote site machines to master Jenkins.
• Responsible for installing/testing the new Jenkins plugin upgrades on the sandbox, before installing/upgrading on production Jenkins.
• Solely admin the Artifactory, and responsible for backing-up/upgrading to latest Artifactory versions and granting the require access to the authorized people.
• Worked with other technical team members to resolve all release related issues.
• Implemented Infrastructure automation through Puppet & Chef, for auto provisioning, code deployments, software installation and configuration update.
• Integrated GIT into Jenkins to automate the code checkout process.
• Involved in backing the database dumps during Gerrit upgrades to pick up the latest bug fixes.
• Responsible for clearing the Gerrit caches and monitoring the Gerrit queues.
• Responsible for testing/installing any Gerrit plugins and configuring.
• Setup/managed Git infrastructure using Gerrit.
• Used GIT workflows and admin to Gerrit responsible to give/restrict the permissions to the authorized people for their code review or merge their changes.
• Responsible to monitor and create Cron-jobs to remove dangling/dead/existed images in Docker containers to free up the space and get builds going.
• Worked experience with logging, monitoring and alerting using Nagios monitoring tool.
• Responded to incoming requests, inquiries, troubleshooting and enhancement support for all JIRA.
• Experienced in using Bit bucket to get the code and integrate with puppet foreman to manage servers in the infrastructure.
• Responsible to document the User Stories or work done using confluence to share the Information within organization for future reference.

Build & Release Engineer Intern

Responsibilities:

• Intern as Build Release Engineer with team of experts in building their applications and maintaining their code base in Sub Version (SVN).
• Participated in tech-core training sessions for technical understanding of requirements and design flow.
• Experience in setting up Jenkins from scratch and maintaining it.
• Experience in working with windows and Linux platforms
• Responsible for deploying applications on AWS EC2 instances and configured the storage on S3 buckets
• Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production servers/storage using AWS Cloud watch.
• Experience in Creating users and groups using IAM and assigning individual policies to each group.
• Created SNS notifications and assigned ARN to S3 for object loss notifications.
• Configured Security group for EC2 Window and Linux instances and also for puppet master and puppet agents.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Cloud watch .

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in designing the Use Cases and the Class Diagrams
• Involved in designing and developing the front end of the application using JSP, JavaScript, HTML.
• Developed database layer using JDBC for connecting to ORACLE
• Deployed application on WebSphere Application Server.
• Implemented the DAO classes for interacting with database using JDBC.
• Worked on writing test cases using Junit for application code.
• Involved in Maintenance and Support of application which also involves bugs fixes.

WebSphere Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5
• Installed upgrades and fix packs to the runtime environment as required decreasing vulnerability to production environment
• Implementation of horizontal and vertical scaling of WebSphere Application Server (WAS)
• Research, Analyze, Evaluate and Document new technologies and make recommendations for deployment based on the Project Management Guidelines and Resource.
• Configuring horizontal Clusters in WebSphere
• Deploying and updating various Web Applications on the Clusters.
• Involved in migration from WAS 7.0 Network Deployment and Base on AIX platform to WAS 8.5.5
• Developed UNIX & XML scripts to automate the build process for applications.
• Maintenance of the local Apache and IBM HTTP web server

Environment: WebSphere Application Server, J2EE, JSP, Eclipse, JavaScript, Oracle, UNIX