SUMMARY

• A Certified AWS Solution Architect - Professional, experienced self-motivated & result-oriented with 5+ years as an AWS Solution Architect with track record in solution design for AWS Cloud technologies.
• 13+ years experience with a big 5 IT consulting firm and hands-on experience architecting, designing and implementing cost-effective, secure, scalable, high performance applications across industries: provincial/ state government, telecommunications, financial services sectors, biotechnology and non-profit.
• Possesses experience to design effective solutions that helps customers migrate, operate, deploy and optimize cloud based applications and infrastructure. Employs Agile methodology of software development to lead teams & deliver high quality products within deadlines.
• A team player with strong client relationships, good interpersonal and communication skills combined with sound business vision and project management skills to deliver effective end-to-end technical business solutions to customers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud: Amazon AWS (Computing Services, Storage Services, Database Services, Security and Identity Management Services, KMS, Networking Services, Management Tools)

Database: MSSQL, Oracle, RDS, DynamoDB, MYSQL

Languages & Format: Python, Java, Perl, PHP, YAML, XML, JSON, SAML

DevOps Tools: Packer, Ansible, Docker, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Terraform, AWS CLI, AWS System Manager, CI/CD, Jenkins, Jira

OS: Windows, Linux, Unix/ AIX

Apps & Webservers: Apache, Nginx, WebSphere Application server, Tomcat, JBoss, ADFS, Shibboleth

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

AWS Architect

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to the design and development of AWS the reference architecture for deploying GxP regulated systems into AWS cloud
• Designed solutions using the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Assisted with security assessments and qualification of new applications and new vendors
• Designed & developed scalable, highly available, cost effective and fault tolerant systems on AWS
• Developed and maintained automated CI/CD pipeline for code deployment using Packer , Ansible, Bash , Python, PowerShell Scripts for automation - CodeCommit
• Successfully ported on-premises legacy applications to AWS and achieved significant increase in availability, operational efficiency and cost savings.
• Configured and deployed microservices and instances: AMIs, EC2, ECS, AutoScaling, S3, APIGateway, Lambda, Kinesis data stream, Security groups using AWS CloudFormation
• Developed templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using CloudFormation to build development, test and production environments.
• Utilized Lambda functions, SNS and SQS to process image files generated by various laboratories instruments
• Helped migrate large amount of data from the on-prem data-center to AWS Cloud using AWS CLI, API Gateway, Lambda and Datasync
• Helped set up AWS Cloud, GxP compliant, infrastructure and deploy a new Laboratory Information Systems (LabVantage) into the Cloud
• Documented, analyzed and managed business requirements and appropriately selected AWS service based on storage, networking, compute, database, or security requirements
• Created business continuity/disaster recovery, fail-over and runbook documentation
• Documented, configured various cloud operational services and hand-off to operational teams
• Proactively monitored resources and applications in the Cloud to identify & rectify potential issues on time using CloudWatch , AWS Config, and other third party tools
• Architected, migrated and deployed applications utilizing AWS services: EC2, EFS , AWS CLI, S3, SQS, SNS, VPC, ELB, EBS, IAM , AWS CloudWatch , CloudTrail, RDS, Lambda , Cloudformation, Storage Gateway , DataSync . AWS STS, AWS GuardDuty, AWS Config, WAF, GuardRail, AWS Systems Manager

Confidential

AWS Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked with web application and enterprise solution architecture teams to create proof of concept (POC) and migrated over 20 web applications, 10 DBs and more than 300 appservers to AWS Cloud
• Analyzed businesses requirements , managed user stories and sub-tasks in JIRA and Confluence
• Worked closely with infrastructure engineers and enterprise architects to design and build the infrastructure to support migration of application servers and VMWare servers to the Cloud
• Evaluated various proposals & recommended the best technical solutions to migrate web applications to deploy in the AWS Cloud
• Selected appropriate AWS services, S3, CloudFront and ElasticSearch, to design new applications hosted in the public Cloud.
• Configured and managed various AWS Services including EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, Glacier, AWS CLI, Cloud Watch, CloudFront, etc.
• Designed and implemented S3 and CloudFront of security and data protection using Access Control List and Bucket Policies
• Configured and deployed micro-services and instance. i.e.: AMIs, EC2, ECS, AutoScaling, S3, Security groups using CloudFormation, Used RESTfull API to interact with S3
• Used AWS CloudFormation to build infrastructure to host web/applications and RDS infrastructure
• Proactively monitored resources and applications using AWS CloudWatch including creating alarms to monitor metrics such as EBS volumes, EC2 instances, ELB, RDS, S3, SNS and configured notifications for the alarms generated based on event definitions
• Captured and shared best-practice knowledge among AWS Solution Architect team
• Created business continuity/disaster recovery, fail-over and drafted run-book documentation
• Ensured security is integrated into all cloud architecture solutions
• Analyzed application portfolios, identified dependencies & common infrastructure platform components, and assessing migration feasibility
• Assisted clients with cost/benefit modeling and created compelling business cases/ total cost of ownership for new workload migration
• Assisted in defining migration roadmaps to AWS and driving buy-in across complex organizational structures
• Create VM templates for several Operating Systems with all the recommended and required settings using Packer and Ansible
• Monitored production web applications on both AWS Cloud and on-premise & initiated corrective actions based on customer feedback
• Worked closely with the scrum master, product owners and the team to plan, execute and review day by day tasks and challenges and developed ways to improve collaboration with other teams
• Administered release management procedures and ensured tasks are completed within schedule

Application Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Restful services and microservices using, XML, Perl, cURL, Java
• Developed APIs to expose content generated by the web content management application to various consumers - application servers and other custom built applications.
• Utilized XML, XSLT, JavaScript, Perl and Java to build template used to create and share content
• Designed, developed and maintained application architectures for various business functional areas
• Accountable and ensuring the digital content / development teams within Confidential Technology Group are aligned Confidential Technology technical strategy, architecture, quality standards and policies
• Communicated solution approaches to project teams and enterprise architecture review board and other stakeholders
• Worked with DevOps to ensure appropriate Content Management application architecture is considered in the target infrastructure deployment for the new data center
• Administered release management procedures and ensured tasks are completed within schedule
• Assisted with troubleshooting and resolved production related issues.

Confidential

Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created architecture blueprints, developed and maintained documentation
• Migrated on-premise City's websites and applications to AWS Cloud
• Ensured customer satisfaction during application migration to the cloud environment.
• Analyzed application portfolios, identified dependencies and assessed migration feasibility to the cloud
• Documented current state architecture and perform gap analysis of digital needs and capabilities
• Performed project reporting including overall project performance against the deliverables
• Monitored projects from initiation through delivery, and reports work progress
• Maintained and track issues/risk, action items, and project completion documentation

Environment: Windows Servers, MS SQL Servers, HP Quality Center, JavaScript, XML, VPC, RDS, EC2, AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudFormation

Confidential

Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led a cross functional team of 15 resources to implement a suite a web content management package.
• Built and managed the technical team required to build the solution
• Designed and developed workflow templates to help manage the content life cycle - JavaScript, Java, XML, XSLT
• Designed and developed Restful services and microservices using, XML, Perl, cURL , Java to enable content sharing
• Assisted the client in clearly defining, analyzing and managing business requirements, translated them into technical specifications documents.
• Analyzed logical and physical functionalities of the content management application and effectively integrated the solution into existing corporate IT infrastructure.
• Worked with the offshore application development and support teams
• Developed and maintained a disaster recovery and business continuity plans, including documenting solutions and procedures
• Ensured project developed to quality standards through code and design reviews and come up with QA functional and performance test plan
• Resolved technical issues and coordinated with vendors for product fixes
• Installed, configured and maintained content management infrastructures