SUMMARY:

• Total 9+ years of IT industry experience.
• IBM Certified Solution Implementer - WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances Firmware V5.0
• 6.8+ years of IBM DataPower Development & Admin experience.
• Strong ESB and IBM DataPower Gateway development. background (XI50/52, XB60, XC10, XG45 & XS40)
• Overall 9+ years of experience in IT industry.
• 6.8+ years of professional experience in middleware technologies IBM DataPower Gateway, Soap UI & Splunk.
• Development & support expertise in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Websphere DataPower Gateway, XI50, XI52, XB60, XC10, XG45 & XS40.
• Having approved H1B petition.
• Experience in developing automation for continuous integration and deployment for DataPower Gateways.
• Experience in implementing Kerberos setup in DataPower.
• Experience in development of Web Services, Multi-Protocol Gateway & XML Firewall in DataPower.
• Advanced experience in analysis, design and developing architectures of multi-tier applications.
• Advanced experience in designing, developing in Enterprise application using IBM DataPower XI50/XI52 technology.
• Worked on several EAI projects and used different ESB and SOA tools to develop projects.
• Strong technical knowledge in XML, XSLT, WSDL, and XSD.
• High experience in providing solutions in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using IBM DataPower devices.
• Experience in creating SOAP messages in XML Spy and SOAP UI .
• Through knowledge of XML and XSLT.
• Experience in troubleshooting mission critical production systems under extreme pressure conditions and time constraints.
• Good exposure to quality (ISO, KCO & CMMI level 5) procedure and methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise independent judgment and creative problem-solving techniques in a highly complex environment using leading-edge technology and/or integrating diverse user systems.
• Demonstrated ability to influence people at a variety of levels internally and externally.
• Good knowledge on Retail, Telecom, Banking & Health Domain.
• Supported Enterprise Applications Integration Solutions.
• Implemented Administration, Maintenance for DataPower XG45, XI50 & XI52.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Unix Shell Script
• Created numerous documents which were eventually recognized as standard and mandatory materials for resources working on DataPower across IBM & HCL Technologies LTD.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: XML, XSLT, Java, SQL, HTML, ANT

Tools: IBM WebSphere DataPower Gateway XI50/XI52/XG45/XB60/XS40/XC10, Eclipse, XML Spy, SOAP UI, Splunk, EAX control center, Altova DiffDog, Websphere Message Broker, Rapid Deploy, TeamSite, JMeter, Jenkins, ISAM

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows, DOS

Database: Oracle

XML Technologies: XML, XSLT, XSD

Telnet Application: Putty (UNIX)

Defect Tracking Tool: HP SM7/SM9, Citrix remedy

Project Tracking Tool: IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC)

Web Application Servers: IBM Websphere DataPower SOA Ap

Productivity: Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Senior System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared technical specification document for all integration services in Confidential .
• Prepared component design document for DataPower in Confidential .
• Developed the whole integration framework of Confidential single-handedly.
• Deciding service design & actively participating in the development of architectural documents.
• Responsible for the engineering, system development, configuration management and technical administration of DataPower SOA appliances.
• Securing web applications with IBM Security Access Manager.
• Act as the central point of contact within the contract program and with customers for all technical issues related to DataPower, API Management & ISAM.
• Leading the integration team for continual improvement in IBM DataPower Gateway & Identity and Access Management by introducing and implementing innovative solutions.
• Understanding the business direction of Confidential and creating optimized DP & ISAM architectures to meet their business needs.
• Provide engineering leadership and oversight on design, engineering, and development of integration solutions.
• Support the design, analysis, development and implementation of integration solutions of projects and work requests for complex Confidential business solutions.
• Creating WebSEAL reverse proxy instances, junctions, configuring, and integrating with client applications.
• Supervision and development of integration and communications with executives.
• Manage day-to-day system development and maintenance activities for deployment in global regions.
• Developed automation for DataPower, for automated deployment from RTC using Jenkins.
• Developed automation for DataPower, for automated deployment from any source control management using CLI.
• Developed automation to upload bulk files to DataPower with a single click.
• Development of attribute processing through DataPower which includes conversion of messages from SOAP to REST, JSON to XML and vice versa.
• Developed circuit-breaker in DataPower.
• Message origin checks, so the device from the underlying zones can send a push notification and we need to check if this notification can be sent.
• Smartcard authentication when a user logs in with a smart card, where DataPower will interact with ISAM to retrieve a SAML packet with the user’s identity.
• Develop XSDs for validating REST payload in DataPower.
• Developed Jenkins plugin for automated deployment and continuous integration of DataPower.
• Capture start time, end time, and duration of incoming and outgoing service calls, and major ESB flow steps.
• Log data in a format suitable for consumption by the ESR-wide logging subsystem.
• Transform error from the provider to format required by the consumer (e.g. formatting errors in WSDL/XSD).
• Obfuscate (or tokenize) sensitive attributes (e.g. internal Oracle keys) when logging data.
• Development of MPGW, WSP, XML firewall & Web Application firewall.
• Allows users to easily access enterprise resources with minimal authentication friction.
• Developing and deploying high availability architecture solutions.
• Perform architecture, design, and review of development policies for adherence to standards and best practices.
• Perform device configuration, providing appliance administration.
• Establish message security requirements: WS-Security Header, AAA, External Identity Management and various PKI encryption methodologies.
• Ensure standardization of systems implementation, support techniques and adherence to formal processes, change control, best practices and total quality practices in all activities.
• Develop work creating domains, multi-protocol gateways, web service proxies, and XML firewalls.
• Troubleshoot using logs, probes, and monitors.
• Applying firmware patches and performing upgrades on DataPower appliances.
• Lead the admin team for setting up the physical and virtual DataPower devices in Data centers.
• Setup of IBM API management console, API manager & developer portal.
• Development of API management to DataPower device.
• Basic & advance developer portal setup. Creation REST API and expose it to developer portal.
• Creating policy type, API quota control, data field redaction, JSON-XML conversion, app user authentication & conditional routing.
• Mapping & converting XML message to JSON message in API management.
• Converting SOAP error code to REST status code in API management.

Technology: DataPower Gateway (v.7.2) with B2B, IBM API Management (v4.0), XSL, XML, XSD, WSDL, Web Services, SOAP, REST, SoapUI, XML Spy, IBM RTC, Swagger, Jenkins, ISAM v8, Artefactory, JAVA

Confidential

Team Lead of DataPower

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the engineering, system development, configuration management and technical administration of DataPower SOA appliances.
• Manage day-to-day system development and maintenance activities for deployment in global regions.
• Act as the Subject Matter Expert of DataPower in liaison with other technology groups.
• Developing and deploying high availability architecture solutions.
• Perform architecture, design, and review of development policies for adherence to standards and best practices.
• Support full life cycle implementation of the project including Dev, SIT, UAT, NFT, and production deployment.
• Perform web services deployment, service routing testing, logging, and maintenance procedures.
• Perform device configuration, providing appliance administration.
• Establish message security requirements: WS-Security Header, AAA, External Identity Management and various PKI encryption methodologies.
• Ensure standardization of systems implementation, support techniques and adherence to formal processes, change control, best practices and total quality practices in all activities.
• Develop work creating domains, multi-protocol gateways, web service proxies, and XML firewalls.
• Troubleshoot using logs, probes, and monitors.
• Applying firmware patches and performing upgrades on DataPower appliances.
• Responsible for managing the DataPower development, admin & testing team, also takes care of their PA & PBC.
• Responsible for delivering development and deployment tasks on time.

Technology: DataPower XI52, XC10, XSL, XML, XSD, WSDL, Web Services, REST, SoapUI, JMeter, XML Spy, IBM RTC, Splunk

Consultant

Senior DataPower Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Creating web service proxy, multi-protocol gateway.
• Mapping of Origo message to CIM from Data Dictionary.
• Transformation of Origo message to CIM using XSLT.
• Creating dynamic routing using XSLT.
• Configured error logging in EAX control center for DataPower using XSLT.
• Implementing Kerberos setup in DataPower.
• Implementing the Enterprise Service strategy and delivering projects utilizing services oriented architecture.
• Develop & Test Mediation Modules.
• Develop & Test Integration Modules.
• Integrate with External using Origo, ALIS & Web Services.
• DataPower troubleshooting, services instrumentation, monitoring and logging.
• Develop, Test and deploy DataPower Components.
• Supporting DataPower implementations in Production.
• Creating policies which include Kerberos setup, error login setup.

Technology: DataPower XI52, XI50, XSL, XML, XSD, WSDL, Web Services, SOAP, SoapUI, XML Spy, Altova DiffDog, EAX Control Centre, Message Broker, Message Queue, Origo, Rapid Deploy, IBM RTC, TeamSite

Confidential

DataPower Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Primarily manage a small team (8) of developers/ engineers as well as drive delivery of a small module of a project and extend technical knowledge support on DataPower to the team.
• Designing, implementing and supporting DataPower XI52/ XG45/XS40 solutions, integrating Data service and WebSphere Transformation Extender.
• Perform analysis of business models, logical specifications and/or user requirements to design solutions for the application environment.
• Lead a tool evaluation effort, including the definition of the evaluation criteria, identification of tools to be evaluated, and the actual evaluation.
• Troubleshooting end-to-end connectivity testing issues.
• Parsing messages and setting up and monitoring using log files.
• Train new team members on DataPower application.
• Coordinating with the team in preparing knowledge enhancement documents.
• Develop WS Proxy, MPGW, firewalls for component development and Unit Testing using DataPower.
• Participate in Production deployments.
• Resolve defects and severity issues.

Technology: DataPower XG45, XI52, XS40, XSL, XML, XSD, WSDL, Web Services, SOAP, SoapUI, XML Spy, cURL

Associate Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Development of components for EAI using DataPower.
• Coordinating with the team in preparing knowledge enhancement documents.
• Developed WS Proxy, MPGW, firewalls for component development and Unit Testing using DataPower.
• Participated in Production deployments.
• Developing DataPower services using WS-Proxy and/or MPGW.
• Creating SLM credential classes & policies.
• Creating Front side handlers.
• Creating SSL profile.
• Configuring log targets.
• AAA configuration.
• Code fixing after delivery as an L3 resource.

Technology: DataPower XI50, XI52 & XC10, XSL, XML, SOAP, Linux, SoapUI, cURL

Confidential

DataPower Specialist

Responsibilities:

• DataPower hardware setup (e.g. DNS, NTP, Firmware upgrade, date and time, port allocation, the web, XML & SOMA interface connectivity, log targets) for three environments - Integration, RRT & Production.
• Installing Splunk forwarder into the logging UNIX servers.
• Configuring Splunk receiving & sending ports.
• Updating the inputs.conf & outputs.conf files into Splunk so that logs can be forwarded to Splunk server.
• Installing apache-tomcat-6.0.35 into the admin UNIX servers.
• Creating log4j.properties for logging the request, response and error logs.
• Raising FAR (internal & external).
• Testing the connectivity among source to the destination after completion of FAR.
• Setting up OpenLDAP to work on Admin Server.
• Following up with UNIX team for setting up the LDAP RedHat directory configuration & ANT installation.
• Testing connectivity to LDAP.
• Creating load balancer requirement document.
• Following up with networks team for Load balancer setup.
• Checking the Load balancer connectivity with DataPower devices.
• Editing rsyslog.conf to give access to the log folders.
• Creating ORC for the new environment and DataPower devices as well.
• Following up with IBM Tivoli team for alarm configuration for DataPower servers.

Technology: IBM Websphere DataPower XI50, XI52 & XB60, Splunk, UNIX, ANT, Tomcat

Confidential

DataPower Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining four DataPower environments which are EGI, WSEL2, WSEL, WSCL & EESEL.
• Totally maintaining 17 DataPower servers, 120 domains and supporting thousands of services including Pre-Production and Production.
• Health checks of the servers.
• Resolving issues related to DataPower.
• Firmware upgrade.
• Deployment of new/existing Web Services and framework to IBM DataPower servers.
• Perform troubleshooting for Web services.
• Administrating, maintaining & monitoring of all servers and services to ensure 100% availability.

Technology: IBM Websphere DataPower XI50, XI52 & XB60, Splunk, UNIX, ANT, Tomcat